{"id":28,"date":"2007-09-25T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2007\/09\/25\/economics-of-scale\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:17:32","slug":"economics-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2007\/09\/25\/economics-of-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics of Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some may or may not know, I&#8217;m very interested in upgrading a relic dagger.  However, I wouldn&#8217;t, and couldn&#8217;t, do this without the full force of my linkshell behind me.<\/p>\n<p>I found this calculator.  It basically says that, if I aquire 300 pieces of ancient currency per week (1.5mil &#8211; 4.5 mil), it will take 10 months. ( see http:\/\/lowone.org\/annihilator\/RelicCalculator.php )<\/p>\n<p>As much as I&#8217;d love to have a Mandau, I don&#8217;t think this is realistic.  At least, not without a radical change to the way Ancient currency drops or is aquired, or, me finding some super-secret way to make a fortune (because I won&#8217;t buy money online).<\/p>\n<p>If you think I&#8217;m kidding, here it goes:<\/p>\n<p>The Mandau requires (not including anything other than ancient currency)<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1-2 &#8211; 400 Byne Bills, at approx 5000 each is 2,000,000<br \/>\nStage 2-3 &#8211; 1400 Ordelle Bronzepiece, at approx 13,000 each is 18,200,000<br \/>\nStage 3-4 &#8211; 6100 Tukuku Whiteshell, at approx 15,000 each is 91,500,000<br \/>\nStage 4-5 &#8211; 10,000 Byne Bills, at approx 5000 each is 50,000,000<\/p>\n<p>For a total cost (at today&#8217;s prices) of 161,700,000.  Its not even a stretch to try to afford this, its completly out of my price range for the forseeable future, even if I were to buy the money online, it would cost too much.  If I were to buy a handful of coins per week (lets say 10-20), it would take 20 years to complete.  If I buy 150 &#8211; 200 coins per week, it would take 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, as I mentioned, without the full force of my linkshell behind me to at least get to stage 4, it isn&#8217;t even close to worth the effort.  If all coins fall to 1K each, then maybe, just maybe, this becomes worth the troubles.  I can only hope the servers are still running by the time that happens.<\/p>\n<p>-pyra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some may or may not know, I&#8217;m very interested in upgrading a relic dagger. However, I wouldn&#8217;t, and couldn&#8217;t, do this without the full force of my linkshell behind me. I found this calculator. It basically says that, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2007\/09\/25\/economics-of-scale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ffxi","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}