Plex costs
Sales
This is my summary of the sales, as the come up, which I provide a feed to Pandemic Horde #csm channel.
Current lowest cost seen: $6.35 per month. (Feb 2023)
Last good sale: April 4th-9th 2024 - $6.67 per month (or 1.34 bil isk per month)
CCP, please stop making me do this. Gamifying your pricing makes it hard to predict if people want to play.
Last update: March 4th, 2024 back to default prices.
Note, if you are alpha and wait a week, you can get somewhat of a deal.
SEE SPREADSHEET BELOW FOR BREAKDOWN ON SALE PRICES
Current Default Prices
This is just to give you a baseline of how much it is normally. Which I'm slow to update. Spreadsheet is updated more frequently.
1 Month - $19.99
3 Month - $15.99 per month, $47.98
6 Month - $14.49 per month, $86.95
12 Month - $12.49 per month, $149.90
24 Month - $11.29 per month, $270.99
50 plex - $2.49 - 20.08 plex per dollar
100 plex - $4.99 - 20.04 plex per dollar
250 plex - $12.49 - 20.02 plex per dollar
500 plex - $24.99 - 20.01 plex per dollar
1,000 plex - $44.99 - 22.23 plex per dollar
1,500 plex - $64.99 - 23.08 plex per dollar
3,000 plex - $124.99 - 24.00 plex per dollar
6,000 plex - $239.99 - 25.00 plex per dollar
12,000 plex - $419.99 - 28.57 plex per dollar
20,000 plex - $649.99 - 30.77 plex per dollar
You can buy even more plex via contacting plexsales@ccpgames.com to get lower prices based on current sales too. https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1bwfke0/i_looked_into_bulk_plex_sales_and_got_some_firm/ gave me more details on this. Must be bank transfer, takes a form to fill out etc.
64,500 plex - $2000 - 32.25 plex per dollar, or $0.0324 doller per plex
One week sale prices
These vary a LOT, so this is just the snap shot from the date above.
1 Month - $14.99
1 Month plus retriever and 100 plex - $17.99 * aka Prospector pack
3 Months - $13.57 per month, $40.70 total
In game Default Omega time
1 Month Omega - 500 plex
3 Month Omega - 1,200 plex
6 Month Omega - 2,100 plex
12 Month Omega - 3,600 plex
24 Month Omega - 6,600 plex
In Game Starter Packs
(Note, these are often not worth it and can only be done once.)
Bronze - 14 days omega, 100k sp, 4 skins, 1 advanced sp booster - 350 plex
Silver - 30 day omega, 250k sp, 6 skins, 1 advanced sp booster - 650 plex
Gold - 2 months omega, 500k sp, 10 skins, 1 specialist sp booster, 4 outfits - 940 plex
Platinum - 3 months omega, 150k sp, 5 skins, 1 expert sp booster, 2 Multiple pilot trainings, 10 skill extractors - 2,145 plex
Best deals happening: Buy plex on secure, buy omega in NES
The best deal is usually the plex bundles on sale (on https://secure.eveonline.com/, aka the website) combined with omega time in New Eden Store (aka NES, aka in game store).
What happens is you buy enough plex to cover enough of a package. It's usually the deficiet pricing that is the 'best deal', so if you have an extra bil to leverage, it can be easier to go over the amount. It's usually like 1.2 bil. But if you're buying six years of eve, you usually have a bil. (PS sell your stuff.)
So an example to read below:
You spend $192 on a 6000 plex pack. You pitch in another 120 of your own plex which https://janice.e-351.com/a/ZNR4c7 says is 625 mil. you take the 6,120 plex on a character and buy 2 12 month NES in game for 3060 each. You could split these plex between two character. You are spending 255 plex per month of omega, and spending $8 a month for 2 years.
If you cannot deficient spend eve, aka cannot afford in game plex on your own, then you are paying a lot more, that same deal goes to only 21 months, as you have to buy 1 six month and 1 three month, meaning you're spending $9.14 a month for 2 years.
If you are just an in game money maker, waiting for these sales is also the best because the cost per month drops a LOT.
To figure this out, spreadsheet below, which you can pop out with a button in the top right corner.
Skill Points (SP) Costs
CCP is running a special right now (now over):
1530 plex - Master Bundle - 1.75 mil sp +standard 'boost' cereberal Accelerator (+4 attributes, 8 days with bio 5) - 6 sp/min - 69.12k sp
1014 plex = Prodigy Bundle - 1.05 mil sp + Advanced 'boost' cereberal accelerator (+6 attributes, 12 days with bio 5) - 9 sp/min - 155.52k sp
820 plex = Graduate Bundle - 0.7 mil sp + specialist 'boost' cerebral accelerator (+8 attributes, 16 days with bio 5) - 12 sp/min - 276.48k sp
658 plex = Novice Bundle - 0.35 mil sp + expert 'boost' cerebral accelerator (+10 attributes, 20 days with bio 5) - 15 sp/min - 432k sp
565 plex = Apprentice Bundle - 0.05 mil sp + genius 'boost' cerebral accelerator (+12 attributes, 24 days with bio 5) - 18 sp/min - 622.08k sp
Assuming plex at 5 mil isk per:
Master - 1.189 SP per plex, or 4,205 isk per SP
Prodigy - 1.188 SP per plex, or 4,205 isk per SP
Graduate - 1,191 SP per plex, or 4,199 isk per SP
Novice - 1,188 SP per plex, or 4,207 isk per SP
Apprentice - 1,189 SP per plex, or 4,203 isk per SP
And with 882.8 Mil Large Skill injectors, It depends on how many skill points you have.
<5M Large Skill Injector - 500k SP - 1,766 isk per SP
<50M Large Skill Injector - 400k SP - 2,207 isk per SP
<80M Large Skill Injector - 300k SP - 2,943 isk per SP
>80M Large Skill Injector - 150k SP - 5,885 isk per SP
Value of Recuiter/Career agents
And the value of the different promotions for skill points, circa Q4 2023.
<5M Skill points - Recruiter link 1M == 2 Large Skill Injectors, aka 1.8 bil; Career Agents 750k == 1.5 Large skill Injectors, aka 1.3 bil.
<50M Skill points - Recruiter link 1M == 2.5 Large Skill Injectors, aka 2.2 bil; Career Agents 750k == 1.875 Large skill Injectors, aka 1.7 bil.
<80M Skill points - Recruiter link 1M == 3.33 Large Skill Injectors, aka 2.9 bil; Career Agents 750k == 2.5 Large skill Injectors, aka 2.2 bil.
>80M Skill points - Recruiter link 1M == 6.66 Large Skill Injectors, aka 5.9 bil; Career Agents 750k == 5 Large skill Injectors, aka 4.4 bil.
Stop gamifying buying your game.
I am annoyed that CCP is gamifying their game costs. There shouldn't be an optimal strategy, it should just be a set price.
What this means is that I need to pick and choose when I pay for my game, and that's really annoying.
I shouldn't have to do math like this to figure it if it's worth it to buy/sell something.
I have been tracking this awhile, and the current best deal was Feb 2023. But who can tell.
All while newbies are getting fleeced for $25 for a single month through deceptive practices.