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Does the addition of skill trading lower the value of Cybernetics?
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Troy Cintryx
Strategic Operations Inc.
#1 - 2016-02-20 01:38:36 UTC
I was giving this some thought earlier.


On one hand, you have people trying to produce SP to sell, and would most likely take advantage of cybernetics to help them do that.

On the other side, you have people wanting to add to their SP, and can now straight buy SP, rather than use cybernetics to help them.


After giving it some thought, I actually think this is going to increase the value of cybernetics, giving many people will now want to farm SP to sell it, thereby driving up the demand for SP enhancers.


I would like to hear some alternative opinions, however.

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Star Killer14
Core World Imperium
#2 - 2016-02-20 01:54:45 UTC
Hi,

I have only been thinking about this for 5 minutes so there might be some holes in the logic, please point them out, but here are my thought.

Terms I use:
PLEX refers to PLEX and the muliti pilot training certificate but PLEX is shorter
Sp farmers refers to any alts who are meant to learn SP to extract and/or those who own them

I would say demand will decrease slightly but not by much. This is because:
1) you will have those who just buy enough SP to do whatever they want so they will not care about future training speed as there is nothing else they want
2) However, this is very expensive and inefficient as it costs about twice as much or more isk as compared to just plexing and waiting.
3) For many they will use it a little to train those couple of skills they really want but mostly they will just wait and use PLEX which means they will want a better SP/h so they will want the implants.
4) The SP farmers will probably just be alts that stay docked in station forever so there is no chance that they get podded thus no chance they will lose their implants. Therefore the implants they buy will be one time costs and thus will have little to no affect on long term demand.
5) You can only have so many SP farmers before there is too much supply so yes there will be a small demand at first to get them started but long term, from (4), they will have no affect.
6) I would think those who wanted to have SP farms started them several months ago so when it went live they could start producing profit, remember you can not extract below 5.5m SP

If you look t the graphs for the standard implants you see that a few months ago prices went up - about 10%, I expect this was people buying them for their farmers. However, over the last few days prices are coming down to where they were before the announcement.

TLDR
No noticable changes overall or a small decrease in demand.
Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
When Fleets Collide
#3 - 2016-02-20 02:27:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Ria Nieyli
It should increase it. Implants will now actually recoup their cost by training you faster after a point. That means that after a certain point you're losing ISK by not using implants.

As far as demand goes, the efects have been very miniscule so far +-1m variance or some such. Most people don't really care about how fast they train and play with empty clones anyway. I don't think there'll be any major change in the short term.