So, I've looked in detail at a few items, and every one so far turns out to be cheaper to buy than to build.
For example, the Moa is on the market for a little over 7 mil. If you were to buy all the bits to make it at the current lowest available prices, it'd cost you 9.8 mil. Or, looked at another way, if you already had the pieces you could sell them for 9.8 mil and buy the Moa for 7.1 mil and make a profit of 2.7 mil and not have to wait two days to build it.
The trade skills will change that later, of course. With Procurement you can put up wide radius buy orders for cheap prices that people who don't watch the market much will fill with their junk. Then you could get a Moa built for less than 7 mil, easy. But for now, buying seems the better way.
Just my observations about it.
Building -vs- Buying
Used the "perfect" numbers.
Troy & I went through his Caracal bpc last night, and it works out okay. 4.5 mil on the market to buy the ship, 4.2 mil in materials to build it. Not a huge savings, but not bad.
Once we become a trading/mining/looting powerhouse, it'll pay off to build all our own big stuff. But for now it's a bit of a tossup as to which is better.
Edited By TPRJones on 1138476758
Troy & I went through his Caracal bpc last night, and it works out okay. 4.5 mil on the market to buy the ship, 4.2 mil in materials to build it. Not a huge savings, but not bad.
Once we become a trading/mining/looting powerhouse, it'll pay off to build all our own big stuff. But for now it's a bit of a tossup as to which is better.
Edited By TPRJones on 1138476758
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