As at the time of writing there is another Omega sale going on that is much better than the normal sale. Firstly, the one month Omega is going for 400 Plex rather than the normal 500 Plex.
The question is - should we go for it.
The summary of the below is the 3 and 6 months look good. The 12 and 24 months less so. In fact the 24 month deal is very poor.
It is all a question of what is the return your business makes.
To not go for the 3 month deal if you can afford it means your business needs to make a monthly return of more than 72%.
What are the discounts on offer?
The table below summarises them all and adds some analysis.
It is a busy table but lets focus on the 6 month Omega to explain what is going on. The cost of Plex does not alter any of the outcomes.
So, looking at the 6 month line:
The normal cost is 14.7bn (=500 plex x 6 months x 4.9m per plex = 3000 Plex x 4.7m)
CCP gives a 44% discount meaning instead of costing 3000 Plex it costs 1680 Plex. Therefore, the actual cost is 8.2bn isk and so saving 6.5bn isk. Over 6 months therefore this saving is 1.1bn isk per month.
The return technically made is 6.5 / 8.2 = 79%.
By Buying this 6 month deal you effectively save on 2.6 months (you pay the full price for 3.4 months and get 6 months).
So far, this all looks really appealing.
But we need to think of the alternative
Sticking to the 6 months, the alternative is that we take the 8.2bn isk and instead of buying the 6 month Omega we invest it in our business and pay the normal monthly Omega.
The question there is what monthly return must our business make to justify this course of action rather than taking the deal.
In other words, for the 6 month calculation, we take the 8.2bn isk we would have used to buy the deal but instead invest it into the business, reduce it by 2.5bn to buy a 1 month Omega, invest the rest for a month making a return of X%. Then reduce that enlarged amount by another 2.5bn to buy the next months Omega and invest what's left to make that return of X% and so on for 6 months.
As it happens for this 6 month period, and it does not matter what the market price of Plex is (assuming it does not change), to make it more attractive to buy the Omega each month then your monthly return (i.e. X%) must be at least 31.7%.
If you can't make 31.7% then buying the 6 month Omega deal is better.
And that is what the final column on the table shows.
It shows the monthly return required to do better than buying the deal.
The longer time deals are poor
The 3 month deal is the best. You would need to make a monthly return of 71.9% to mean that buying the 1 month Omega each time is a better idea.
The 24 month deal is the worst - you only need to make a monthly return of 9.0% to mean that investing the 25.9bn isk into your business and paying each month for a 1 month Omega is a better idea.
What does it mean for me?
I currently make a monthly return of 10-11% on my business (i.e. for every 100bn invested i make 10-11bn).
Therefore, assuming i knew i was going to play Eve for the next 6 months then i should buy the 6 month Omega deal rather than pay each month for the monthly Omega.
Example of the 6 month calculation
The below table shows how i worked out the required 31.7% return:
Start at time 0 and invest 8.2bn isk. buy a 1 month omega for 2.5bn leaves 5.8bn, make the 31.7% return increases that to 7.6bn. Start of the second month reduce it by 2.5bn to 5.2bn for the 1 month Omega, increase that 5.2bn by 31.7% to 6.8bn and so on. By the start of the month 6 you are left with 2.5bn to buy that final months Omega.
Actually, i think the 3 month deal is so good i have purchased Plex ingame to cover the purchase of the 3 month Omega deal for each of my 4 Omega accounts.
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