Atronite
2006-07-26 |  | Upkeep Question |  |
If you build something like 200 hercules, do you pay 200 hercules` upkeep for 100 turns? The upkeep for 200 hercules is 7 million a turn (35,000 * 200), so would you be losing 7 million credits from turn 1 to turn 100?
If you started out with no income, you would lose 700 million worth of cash. If you made, say 3.5 million a turn, that would be 350 million cash loss.
If so, wouldn`t it be smarter to build the ships in smaller increments to save cash?
for example, if you build 100 hercules with the 3.5 million credits a turn, then you would make no income for 50 turns, and your only cost would be the actual cost of the ships (we`ll ignore that for now).
Then after that, you would build 100 more hercules more, which would put you in the red 3.5 million a turn for 50 turns. This would represent a total cash loss of only 175 million.
Therefore, If you make the assumption that you pay the entire ships` income from turn 1 (the upkeep cost of 200 hercules for 7 million a turn for example), then it would be smarter to build in smaller increments for the sake of saving cash in the long run.
The big question tho is whether my assumption is in fact correct. Anyone care to comment? |
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Locutus
99+ day(s) ago | well sure. I was just asking because I wanted to make a hit or two on the kalzul, and I didnt need to build quickly. =) |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | yep yep...if u buy in bulk u dont get the bulk discount but get slammed a bulk tax for spare parts :P
but if u really need thoose hercs or watever in a hurry then just forget about the upkeep and just build em as fast as possible |
Atronite
99+ day(s) ago | that`s what I thought. Nice to have someone be able to confirm this. =) |
EvilLoof
99+ day(s) ago | If you build something like 200 hercules, do you pay 200 hercules` upkeep for 100 turns? The upkeep for 200 hercules is 7 million a turn (35,000 * 200), so would you be losing 7 million credits from turn 1 to turn 100?
Yes, it saves you alot of moneyto build your ships one turn at a time, Gronoria built all his sloops for his uw at slow one turn at a time, lol... he was quite tired of clicking afterwards thou |
Atronite
99+ day(s) ago | Excuse me, after 3.5 million a turn, that would be like 17.5 million credit a turn loss for 200 turns, which would amount to a 3.5 billion cash loss right there. If I had less than 3.5 billion, I would be in quite a bit of debt. 0.o |
Atronite
99+ day(s) ago | well no, but lets say you wanted to build 400 more hercs after that. That would be a 21 million a turn upkeep for over 200 turns with 600 hercules. That`s a 4.1 billion cost right there...O.o |
DarkRune
99+ day(s) ago | 350 mil shouldn`t be anything to worry about thus just mass build and have fun ^_^ |
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