(11-26-2023, 12:05 AM)Fab Wrote: we've had multiple players (POB owners + their friends/suppliers) powergaming their way to supply their pobs for free using corsair characters, completely bypassing the entirety of our economy and lore. It isn't right. We have several stations to supply and it costs money. Relics are a huge portion of the corsair economy and players, bypassing this harms all corsairs. I believe you'll agree with me.
Well, considering the amounts of Xeno Relics necessary for the crafting, I'm not surprised. You have to acknowledge your relics don't exist in Vacuum. The recipes for the equipment require between 1500 to 6500 Xeno relics, with all but one recipe wanting 3000 or more, on top of other expensive components.
That means between 562 500 SC (1500) and 2 437 500 (6500) SC for a single device (and keep in mind only one device needs just 1500 relics, the rest need at least 300, so 1 125 000 SC) just for the relics and that's for your lowest price 375 sc/u and not accounting for transportation.
If I take your usual price of 450 sc/u than the prices goes to 675 000 (1500); 1 350 000 (3000); 2 925 000 (6500) credits. For one device, for one material only. Then add to it the fact that lot of corps can't buy from corsairs directly, so they need to hire a transport, further increasing the prices, and also that pretty much all of the devices require also Azurite, which can be PITA to get, and also 5k - 15k of other HRCs which are also not cheap, and a ton of other stuff and you can see why noone wants to buy for your prices, when the xeno relics alone, which are usually just one out of ten or more necessary materials, cost the same as two, three, maybe four other materials combined. Simply put, as long as the price of Xeno Relics will be three times as high as the other most expensive resource, people will rather go through the effort to go behind your back on this.
