TheAlchemist
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With some guns and armor selling for really high prices and thinking about shares and land deeds I can up with the following insight.
For each item (armor, gun) that has an L equivalent you can determine the maximum useful price from your playing style by:
- considering how much ped you save per year
- check if it is more than 5% of the buying cost.
If not, use an L item instead and invest the money in shares/CLD or on a RL index fund.
for example
if a gun costs 100k ped in markup you can either buy the gun or invest the ped at a 5% ROI.
if the L equivalent goes at 110%, it means you need to shoot through 50,000ped of gun decay a year to justify buying the Gun instead.
Or more realistically at 125%, you still need to decay 12,500PED a year.
same goes with armor. if an armor goes for 100k and it's L equivalent goes at 150%, you still need more then 10.000 ped in armor decay to justify buying the armor.
For armor it is more straight forward even since there is no efficiency to worry about.
Now efficiency might come in to play. Let us say that it's effect are 1% more loot. that still means a lot cycling each year.
And it effects are not directly calculatable.
So for some, it might make sense to buy UL gear.
For me on the other hand I aim to buy phantom at some point and just use armatrix and daily token weapons.
And invest my money in deeds, shares and real life index funds.
Those things also keep its worth and offer a return when I take a break from the game. And there is somewhat less risk involved in devaluation of those.
At least this makes most economical sense for me.
For each item (armor, gun) that has an L equivalent you can determine the maximum useful price from your playing style by:
- considering how much ped you save per year
- check if it is more than 5% of the buying cost.
If not, use an L item instead and invest the money in shares/CLD or on a RL index fund.
for example
if a gun costs 100k ped in markup you can either buy the gun or invest the ped at a 5% ROI.
if the L equivalent goes at 110%, it means you need to shoot through 50,000ped of gun decay a year to justify buying the Gun instead.
Or more realistically at 125%, you still need to decay 12,500PED a year.
same goes with armor. if an armor goes for 100k and it's L equivalent goes at 150%, you still need more then 10.000 ped in armor decay to justify buying the armor.
For armor it is more straight forward even since there is no efficiency to worry about.
Now efficiency might come in to play. Let us say that it's effect are 1% more loot. that still means a lot cycling each year.
And it effects are not directly calculatable.
So for some, it might make sense to buy UL gear.
For me on the other hand I aim to buy phantom at some point and just use armatrix and daily token weapons.
And invest my money in deeds, shares and real life index funds.
Those things also keep its worth and offer a return when I take a break from the game. And there is somewhat less risk involved in devaluation of those.
At least this makes most economical sense for me.
