Ships & Modules

is anyone else noticing how extremely expensive these things are getting? almost cost prohibitive.

due to the nature of eve pvp, mostly frigates are flown in low sec, so the demand for the small aar compared to the medium and large is much higher.

if you are brawling, you are more than likely active tanked (active > buffer), and with frigates, the metagame is to go in with everything o/h.

this ideology can also be applied to armor reppers; since the aar frontloads repping power it is essentially a t2 small repper that has the same* repping power as a medium t2 repper (for 8 cycles)

so basically the aar is way better than the t2 variant and should definitely be more expensive.

but 2.9m-3.3m for a FRIGATE sized module? and is yet increasing? i do not believe so. (side note: as the aar prices go up, the prices of nanite paste will go down as less people will use it so i guess thats kind of a win)

but

would it totally mess with pvp as we know it if the drop rate for the BPC for small aar's was increased? not by much, but enough so that a t1 frig with t2 fittings and aar (counting cargo so ammo and nanite) isnt a 14m kill? i mean at that point you might as well only fly AFs as 2 t1 frigs @ 14m will pay for the hull. (maybe 14m is a bit on the high end but i have a few tormentor losses that are quite painful for a t1 frig)

thoughts?


* not exactly, but close

AFAIK, these BPC's are random drops from scan sites. The reason the small ones are expensive is most likely due to the fact alot of frigates use them and get blown up constantly. Much like the Medium Ancillary Shield booster has a nice price tag compared to the other sized ones.

You want them cheaper? Scan down some sites and build them yourself. The market has spoken.

Last I checked most of the Ancillary reppers weren't worth making even if you randomly got the BPC as you got more profit from selling the minerals directly.

Mineral cost of building one run SAAR ~10k
Sell price for module, ~1 900 000.

Want to remember the copies having at least three runs to them.

And Dato yes, it's not "cheaper" to build them yourself as you loose the chance to sell them. Bad formulation from my part. Don't want more miner/producers thinking minerals is free just because they mined them themselves.

Point being, you cannot arbritarily lower prices like that. Doing so would surely make some scanner out there sad seeing the paper he was just selling is now worthless.

Small AAR is one of the very few remaining exploration BPCs that is not unprofitable to build. All of the exploration BPCs should drop less often, rather than in the plethora they do now.

2mill is nothing on a frig. Stop complaining.

15,941,998 isk/hour if you can keep a line running. I'd say that's worth making. MASBs make a paltry 5mil isk/hour in comparison. The others are crap though.

What i wanna know is that.. can a bpo of the saar be found in relic/data sites?

ehhhh T2 is another option...

some people prefer T2 on their vengeance for example... since once the AAR runs out of nanite repair paste your repping power drops by a lot...

Wow, someone has less ISK than I do.



Seriously though, less than I do.



For real this time, SAARs have become pretty much the standard fitting and given the limited nature of the module the price will respond to the demand. You will know when it becomes cost prohibitive when people stop buying them and the market is allowed to get much more competition going which will drive the price down. In the meantime even 3 mil isn't that much to spend unless you somehow have less ISK than I do.