Author |
Message |
Kiljaeden
Joined: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:06 pm Posts: 2
|
I just discovered that the BM50 Convoy Shuttle silver badge item is almost stupidly expensive to maintain: 2 million credits per day, sell price of 20 million. At rank 54, just one of those is 1.5 times the cost of the rest of my ship combined. And I have dominion IIs, Protean armories, and other good tech on my ship. I've also gotten some confirmation on prices for other Silver badge items.
Why is the BM50 so bloody expensive? Given comparable strength-to-deck ratio badge items, at MOST it should be around 500k upkeep. Anyone else think this?
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:23 am |
|
 |
Darth Flagitious
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:49 pm Posts: 8964
|
Defense is gold. My standard defense mods are 214.3M (Builder + 3 Assembly bots) x4. 2M is nothing, 2 Kurenite covers it. Basically, you need to look at bonus mods the same way you look at researched tech mods. Can I afford that every day? If the answer is no, you either need more mining, or you need to not purchase those items.
_________________Ranks 400+ Join us in exploring..  [20:40] Wredz: just hacked a massive extremely rich minting planet from someone.. thats the best planet i ever hacked [20:43] DarthFlagitious: is it spearmint or peppermint?
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:35 am |
|
 |
Uy23e
Joined: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:04 am Posts: 1998
|

Kiljaeden wrote: I just discovered that the BM50 Convoy Shuttle silver badge item is almost stupidly expensive to maintain: 2 million credits per day, sell price of 20 million. At rank 54, just one of those is 1.5 times the cost of the rest of my ship combined. And I have dominion IIs, Protean armories, and other good tech on my ship. I've also gotten some confirmation on prices for other Silver badge items.
Why is the BM50 so bloody expensive? Given comparable strength-to-deck ratio badge items, at MOST it should be around 500k upkeep. Anyone else think this? How did you arrive at 500k? that makes no sense whatsoever the closest ratio is Energy Nullifier, which is 5.054 Def/Deck ratio, just a tiny bit above BM50 it have a upkeep of 4.75m, providiing 374 def now divide that by 3.74, we get 1267380, even if that is lowerd abit, to say 1.25m because of its slightly lower Def/Deck ratio, it's way more than 500k upkeep Furthermore, it provides an addional bonus of base def, the current upkeep is more than justified. Frankly, if you can't afford it, maybe you shouldn't have bought it~
_________________ 当所有传奇写下第一个篇章 原来所谓英雄也和我们一样 私は一発の銃弾、銃弾は人の心を持たない。故に、何も考えない。ただ、目的に向かって飛ぶだけ
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:35 am |
|
 |
kemal666
Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:25 am Posts: 154
|
Uy23e wrote: Frankly, if you can't afford it, maybe you shouldn't have bought it~ this
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:20 am |
|
 |
Vette
Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:41 pm Posts: 768
|
Level 8 Base Upkeep: 14.8bil
My Ship Upkeep: 16.1bil
Most of us up here have this upkeep level. Would you like to trade upkeeps?
_________________
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:20 pm |
|
 |
Bluecifer
Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:53 pm Posts: 3756 Location: Aboard my floating fortress of ineptitude
|
Defense is not very useful at rank 100 and below.
_________________ Inventor of Invisible SandTM
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:21 pm |
|
 |
Darth Flagitious
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:49 pm Posts: 8964
|
Bluecifer wrote: Defense is not very useful at rank 100 and below. Agreed. That's why I always tell lowbies who ask for ship advice to ditch defense mods. Notice that the costs involved in defense mods that are actually worth having are above the normal lowbie income level. You shouldn't worry about installing defense mods other than NPC drops until you start into the mid-rank range, at which time 2M per day is nothing. I reiterate... Don't buy what you can't afford to keep.
_________________Ranks 400+ Join us in exploring..  [20:40] Wredz: just hacked a massive extremely rich minting planet from someone.. thats the best planet i ever hacked [20:43] DarthFlagitious: is it spearmint or peppermint?
|
Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:10 pm |
|
 |
mikeydude97
Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:37 pm Posts: 243
|
maybe ur too much of a low ranker to be able to maintain one, u should have got one when u have a higher rank probably rank 100+ or near?
|
Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:21 pm |
|
 |
elerian
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:25 am Posts: 2360 Location: New York
|
I see where he is coming from only because the silver badge items do not list what there upkeep is, only what the minimum level to use them is.
however since there is alot of arti trading going on this is kind of a mute point, but it is there.
_________________ 
|
Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:02 am |
|
 |
Zargor
Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:39 pm Posts: 1430
|
Just get your mining up more, and rank up more.
_________________
|
Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:21 pm |
|
 |
Mark W
Joined: Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:51 pm Posts: 259
|
I agree with those who say you shouldn't have bought it. If you want to keep it, you might want to consider install/uninstall a few times until it breaks and then you won't have to pay upkeep. Repair it when you can afford the thing.
|
Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:06 pm |
|
 |
Dave_smith354
Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:58 pm Posts: 332
|
elerian wrote: I see where he is coming from only because the silver badge items do not list what their upkeep is, only what the minimum level to use them is.
However since there is alot of arti trading going on this is kind of a mute point, but it is there. Moot, not mute. Sorry, that particular confusion is a pet hate of mine. Mark W wrote: I agree with those who say you shouldn't have bought it. If you want to keep it, you might want to consider install/uninstall a few times until it breaks and then you won't have to pay upkeep. Repair it when you can afford the thing. This is probably the best thing you can do right now. 20 clicks (or fewer), problem solved.
|
Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:21 am |
|
 |
|