So I made 10 designs for the Alligator.
The range goes from 5 to 10.
Translated into Plex it is from 50 plex to 130 Plex
In the Paragon Hub market there are three Alligator designs
The vary from 7 to 8. 8 takes 90 Plex to make.
They ask 900Mil Isk for the 8 o 700Mil, or 90 Plex for the 7.
But this is not the whole story. In order to make a 8 design, or 10,
You have to add the materials that you need and don’t have yet bought
or got as a bonus. The Crimson Harvest final gift is one of those special
design overlays that can cost a lot… other less rare colors can cost 15 or 30 Plex each also…
And I have not yet understood if these are depletable or not…
like there are basic materials that are infinite, and then there are these rare materials…
Ok… So my cost has gone up to something like 150 Plex for one cool design…
translated into Isks this is like 1.5 Bil!!!
Now we have to take into account other costs like the Hub market costs, and the
skills. Each listings supposedly has a cost. It has a limited time of one month I think.
Perhaps three. I still have to make these numbers up.
Ok, After all of these, I should probably try to sell my design for 1.5 Bil + 23% costs,
That would be 1.85Bil just to break even. More realistically I should ask for 2Bil.
My Supposed gain after all of this would be a mere 150Mil Isk, or 23 Plex.
So it seems that one way to sell your design is to ask for little more Plex that you used to make,
20 Plex gain in Iskies seems a lot. But it isnt.
But would I agree on paying close to 2 Bil for a skin of my Alligator?
Perhaps if it was a Golem, I would say yes…
But these SKINR costs do not scale with the ships…
Just thoughts… Should I try and not sell my design at least I could use it???
Or If I make the design and sell it I am not allowed to use it???
This would make a TON of difference on my Creator side…
At least, if nobody buys it, I can still use it, and hope one day someone would buy it…
Like a free copy for personal use of the creator…
What are your thoughts about it???
Or like make the design cost a little higher but you create a sort of BPO, and subsequent copies of the Design come cheaper???
How do we lower the costs???