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===== Using ISK to facilitate training and extracting ===== | ===== Using ISK to facilitate training and extracting ===== | ||
If you're buying PLEX to facilitate the training and then pay ISK to get the extractors from the market, then you'll be able to extract at least 3-4 injectors a month (at 2,700 skillpoints an hour you get 1,944,000 skillpoints in a month). So for that to be profitable, you'll need to sell the injectors at a price that's higher than your initial investment. | If you're buying PLEX to facilitate the training and then pay ISK to get the extractors from the market, then you'll be able to extract at least 3-4 injectors a month (at 2,700 skillpoints an hour you get 1,944,000 skillpoints in a month). So for that to be profitable, you'll need to sell the injectors at a price that's higher than your initial investment. | ||
{{example| | {{example|<p>For example, if PLEX sells for 1,2 billion ISK and extractors cost 300 million ISK then the costs of training and extracting 4 injectors a month (rounded for simplicity) is '''2,4 billion ISK''' (1,2 billion + 4 x 300 million).</p><p>In order to just break even selling injectors you'll need to price your injectors above 1/4 of that, '''600 million ISK''' a piece (2,4 billion / 4), and for a profit you'll have to price it higher than that.</p>}} | ||
For example, if PLEX sells for 1,2 billion ISK and extractors cost 300 million ISK then the costs of training and extracting 4 injectors a month (rounded for simplicity) is '''2,4 billion ISK''' (1,2 billion + 4 x 300 million).< | |||
===== Using real money to gain ISK ===== | ===== Using real money to gain ISK ===== | ||
If you're using real money to subscribe (in order to have an account to train on) and again real money to get extractors, you should compare the relative ISK per real world currency spent. If 4 injectors doesn't yield as much ISK as however many PLEX you get for the same price, you'd make more money simply selling PLEX straight up. | If you're using real money to subscribe (in order to have an account to train on) and again real money to get extractors, you should compare the relative ISK per real world currency spent. If 4 injectors doesn't yield as much ISK as however many PLEX you get for the same price, you'd make more money simply selling PLEX straight up. | ||
{{example|For example, say you pay €10.95 for your subscription (cheapest if you go for a 12-month plan) and fork out €17,99 for 4 extractors a month (cheapest extractor from the bundle of 10 is €4,50 each). That amounts to €28,99 a month.< | {{example|<p>For example, say you pay €10.95 for your subscription (cheapest if you go for a 12-month plan) and fork out €17,99 for 4 extractors a month (cheapest extractor from the bundle of 10 is €4,50 each). That amounts to €28,99 a month.</p><p>If you spent that buying PLEX for €14,87 a piece and sold those, you'd pretty much be able to sell 2 PLEX a month instead. If PLEX sell for 1,2 billion each that means you'd have to sell the 4 injectors at a price above '''600 million ISK''' (2,4 billion / 4) to turn a better profit.</p>}} | ||
===== Active accounts that doesn't need training ===== | ===== Active accounts that doesn't need training ===== | ||
If you're using the account anyway and for some reason have no need to train anything (the account might be filled with specific alts already trained for their purpose), you end up changing the dynamics for profitability. The ability to train in this scenario doesn't cost you more, you're already subscribing to use the account, so the above mentioned formula is changed to simply weighing the cost of extractors vs the profit of selling injectors. | If you're using the account anyway and for some reason have no need to train anything (the account might be filled with specific alts already trained for their purpose), you end up changing the dynamics for profitability. The ability to train in this scenario doesn't cost you more, you're already subscribing to use the account, so the above mentioned formula is changed to simply weighing the cost of extractors vs the profit of selling injectors. | ||
{{example|<p>Since one extractor makes an injector to sell, if an extractor costs '''300 million ISK''' then anything above that is pure profit in this scenario.</p>}} | |||
There are probably other scenarios as well that doesn't adhere to the examples mentioned above, so always do your research. | There are probably other scenarios as well that doesn't adhere to the examples mentioned above, so always do your research. | ||