Hehe wow - I'm at 70k and fired it off because I figured it *had* to be useful by now. Apparently not! Maybe next year.

who doesn't have dark aperture by now?

72624 MU/hr / 8 * 9 = 81702 MU/hr

even better now

Please note that this "break even" point is only valid if you purchase Complex Tech Parts from another player and is based wholly on an arbitrary, player-defined value.

In the future, please do not posit numbers like this as if they were officially sanctioned. Remember, this is the Beginners Hub. Meaning, beginners will/should look in here for information. Please don't mislead them.

There's nothing all that misleading about it.

and even worse, the number works if ALL of the MU converted to Ku ~

And thus Exactly what a player new to the game needs to know. Rather than wasting 40 ctp on a buff that will get them at max 100-200m credits they can get almost 3000m credits if they sell to another player

I split this topic as it is more of a Strategy than a beginner topic. Hopefully, this will quell the fires.

Pssssst~ what "NEW" player has access to the UST??

As far as I'm aware (and the wiki backs this up), you have to finish the requisite research before you gain anything from the terminal~ so no 'new' player would even have the ability to "waste" the 40ctp in the first place.

KxG makes an excellent point. Kinda shocked I didn't noticed that myself.

By that math, not using the Dark Aperture Key would yield better results recouping the costs, which just logically makes no sense, so you've probably got an error in there
Keep in mind that the DAK will change the 45506 CR/MU number you used.

Was that average done with DAK or without?

if all was with then the first should be divided by 1.125
if all were not then the bottom should be multiplied by 1.125

"officially sanctioned" as in????? what? a moderator has to sanction the number?

Plurv, quit being a putz... If I understand S.Lawking correctly, he's saying that any calculation of the value for the Harvest effect is going to be inherently flawed because the GAME does not have any Ku-CTP relationship. That is just us deciding that today it's going to be 55 per. Tomorrow it could be 50 or 60. Unfortunately, there's a relatively small group of people that can say something, and it's taken as gospel galaxy-wide. That's why it's 55 now rather than 10 as it was a year or so ago.

As an aside, suppose Dan were to add an embargo event (how many are left that recall the one we did have? Old farts... lol). Maybe we wouldn't be able to trade CTP. Where's your Ku then hmm?

That is also how I understood S.Hawking's post. There is so much fluctuation in the CTP value, who knows what the proper math is.

And yes, I remember the embargo; I'd love to see another galaxy-wide event like that. I think it was the only one ever.

OK, so we can't quote any market rates on the forum? I know it fluctuates, but isn't it a bit overbearing to have moderators tell us we can't state an exchange rate because it's not "official"? No one here said anything about an exchange rate being "official". It's a forum as in "discussion forum", "discussion" being the keyword there.

If I make a post like "hey whats this planet worth?" and someone else replies with "10K ctp", then are the moderators going to comment on that also? Why just now is this a problem? Discussions of trades, exchange rates, etc have happened many times over without issue?