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Originally Posted by dee
remember an item is worth its market value. If you loot a korss 400, yes you avoid the markup, but the value is still there if the item was to be sold instead of used. and fwiw, i hunt for it myself anyway just to save paying the markup.to someone else. So basically to sum it up you are still losing the market value of the item (~200% in case of the korss400) as you use it, whether you loot it or buy it.
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I think that this is a very good point. I've seen a lot of people saying "
this weapon has great economy as long as I can loot it". I cannot say they're wrong, but I prefer to see it in a different way:
Remember that if you loot a 100 ped korss 400, what you have actually looted is a 200 ped worth of weapon. If you go hunting and you burn the whole gun, you've burned 200 ped worth of gun.
If you decide to sell the gun, you get 100 extra ped. If you hunt with it, you'd better take into account those 100 extra ped in you calculations to see if you've had a loss/profit, otherwise you're fooling yourself. In economics, this concept is known as "cost of opportunity", ie., the virtual cost you've paid for
not having done something; in this case, for not having sold the gun.
The bottom line: as long as you pay current market price for an L weapon (the price you could get if you sell it), it does not matter if you loot it or if you buy it, economy-wise
Cheers,
/jdegre.