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Grimreaperr
The Eternal Knights
#1 - 2012-12-29 12:50:40 UTC
Just started playing again after 12 month break; so many changesSad

Why have BPO's especially capital Ships become so expensive to purchase with decent ME:

When i last traded you could get a Charon BPO with decent ME for around 2 bil now its 3.5 bil!

Comments apreciated.
Grim
flakeys
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-12-29 15:17:34 UTC
Grimreaperr wrote:
Just started playing again after 12 month break; so many changesSad

Why have BPO's especially capital Ships become so expensive to purchase with decent ME:

When i last traded you could get a Charon BPO with decent ME for around 2 bil now its 3.5 bil!

Comments apreciated.
Grim



offer vs demand .....markets so simple even a cook understands Blink

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Ymir Esubria
Brigandage
#3 - 2012-12-29 15:19:50 UTC
Rookie thought, but I'd assume inflation plays a part? Everything seems to be more expensive than it was before my break, 2 years ago. Seems to me that your ISK buys you less nowadays than it did in the past.

Psychotic Monk for CSM.

http://belligerentundesirables.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/psychotic-monk-for-csm/
Leopold Jakuard
State Of Unrest
#4 - 2012-12-29 19:26:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Leopold Jakuard
I sincerly doubt they were 2b one year ago with "a decent ME" when that's barely 200m above the npc price. Though I think today it's easy to get into freighter/capital ships produciton.

Edit: @ the person above me: surely inflation affects the BPOs in general, but since their price is static and set by NPCs, only the portion after npc price can be inflated, so I assume it's not as big as other items.
Cyrvys en Distel
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-12-30 23:08:09 UTC
Well of course your isk buys you less as time goes on. That's simple economics. The more money that is in one specific place (country/city/shard/etc) The less that money is worth. EVE players tend to be more longterm game players than most other MMO'ers, as they earn more isk, spend more isk, and new players come in, earn more isk, spend more isk, the vast printing of all that isk (or uploading, or downloading, or whatever the term that may be applicable) will mean a decrease in what 1 isk is worth. #says-Buzz-Killington
Kara Books
Deal with IT.
#6 - 2013-01-02 05:30:31 UTC
Because they take MONTHS to research and require a considerable medium-long term investment of Capital.

A Charon BPO researched correctly is priced between 5.5 and 7.5B isk, if you see it below 5.5 then its a good deal, as unfeasible as it sounds.

Perhaps the price fluctuates here and there so dont hold my numbers as exact.

Then if you do decide to sell it, they sell SLOW, even if you research it correctly price it fairly for seller and buyer (because buyers start to get picky with items over 100M isk-no more compulsive buyers unless you miss a zero)
Jack Mayhem
Kaer Industries
#7 - 2013-01-02 09:58:17 UTC
Kara Books wrote:
A Charon BPO researched correctly is priced between 5.5 and 7.5B isk, if you see it below 5.5 then its a good deal, as unfeasible as it sounds.


One must be an idiot to pay such prices.

Thankfully EVE is in no short supply of them.