(03-03-2014, 11:28 AM)Saronsen Wrote: Yeah no. 600mil is ridiculous.
indeed..besides.. supplying once every 40 days a base?
can you even imagine a player who can supply all of the present bases in this server? I can..but i want not to be more than a figment of my own imagination
Im sure Coin is saying a figure of speech, or it would be ridiculous. I am also sure an agreement can be reached in between somewhere in a middle.
You can go for something small, for example like raising the price by the 8x and reduce the tick on the base eats RA by 4x.
What you get Instead of the base eating 8640 a day, its 2160. You can choose to take a small transport for a run a day, or a big transport ever other day. This means you still have to upkeep regularly but without having to go back and forth constantly like a clock.
For the price, it will cost you $2000 per RA instead
Current: 8640 units x $ 250 = 2,160,000
Suggesting: 2160 units x $ 2000 = 4,320,000 Mill
Now the big picture:
In a month - It would have saved you about 194,400 RA = 39 runs on a 5ker. However, it would have cost you 64,800,000 Mill extra
In a year - It would have saved you about 2,365,200 RA = 474 runs on a 5ker. However, it would have cost you 788,400,000 Mill extra
Now lets recap, if you need 64 Mill extra a month, this means you have to go out on 1 - 2 group mining operations , or solo trade 6 - 12 hours extra. However, you would have lot more time spare now because the the time spent on supplying are now freed up for more productive purposes. This means you can actually go and mine your hearts out ! Not to mention it allows more time for pirates to jump on you.
I think it also reduce the spam of bases because of the cost. Just a base eating on RA alone in this scenario will cost you 129.6 Mill a month, now times that to the number of bases you own ...
