Thinking Through the "Price" of Aura Licenses and Midnight Potions...

So I'm a little mercenary when it comes to Land, and I've been trying to figure out whether it's worth it to spunk some of my precious research points on an aura license...

Details here...

NB in the calculations below I'm working on double PP for magical, I can't imagine that many people are going to be producing AURA on a regular plot, it's just not worth it!

It's 60K DEC for a license...

In terms of opportunity cost.... or what you could earn producing and selling base resources compared to staking to get back that 10K research....

• 100 000 PP staked to LAND would yield you 10 research and hour, it would take you 41 days to earn 10 000 research.
• To be able to claim that research you also need wood/ stone/ iron, so the actual cost in PP is actually 400K PP
• (I'm discounting the cost of grain as that's just universal across any resource)
• 400 000 PP staked to Wood, the cheapest resource would yield you just under 60K DEC over 41 days.

So you'd need to sell 60K DEC's worth of potions before you're in profit..

And the cost of producing Aura...

It's the same as ORE, doubled.

• So 100K PP on Aura would yield you 60 potions a day, not bad!
• But you'd need an additional 400K PP to be able to harvest that (wood, stone, ore)
• Over a month that's 2400 potions
• If they sell for 25 DEC, that's the same income as above from just selling wood.
• Factor in the cost of the license (the capital cost) = double that for the first month
  = You need to make 50 DEC per potion to make it worth switching from base resources.

NB you'd need to make slightly more if yer comparing to Stone OFC.

Thoughts...

I'll be opening up an aura lab, just one because...

1. I have a nice chunk of research just sitting there anyway, doing nothing.

2. It's only opportunity cost for the license.

3. I may as well spend that research now, when it comes to the SoP, the main use case there's almost 100% my rewards will be based on a dice roll, I'm not a whale.

4. I just want to DO SOMETHING with my land!

5. I can always revert back after a month!

6. DEFI logic says potions will be overpriced for a week or two, so SELL!

7. There may be more use cases for AURA!

8. I might just spunk some Time Crystals too.

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