Ves could practically feel the money rolling in at this ti.
The presentation had been an undeniable success. Millions of guests reacted with overwhelming enthusiasm towards the Fey Fianna.
Ves had proven without any doubt that he had advanced the state of hyper technology and E-technology by developing and publishing the Fey Fianna design.
A disproportionately large number of ch designers had already licensed the Fey Fianna design before the presentation had co to an end. Each of these ch designers wanted to study and learn the secrets that Ves had applied to his complicated drone ch design.
This was not an easy job! Since his spiritual engineering existed as an invisible layer of data attached to the actual ch design, ch designers faced an uphill battle in accessing it, let alone trying to decipher his work without a proper understanding in living chs.
The ch designers would probably have a working copy of the Fey Fianna within their reach in order to make any actual progress, but Ves still did not have high hopes for them. The best that they could do under normal circumstances was to develop their own variants of his new drone ch.
Whatever the case, Ves did not mind it if lots of people studied his work. The Red Association had set the licensing fee for an unrestricted 10-year license of the Standard Edition at 75,000 MTA credits!
Ves had no idea what kind of criteria the chers utilized to determine the licensing fees of published ch designs. According to private studies, they usually hovered between a hundred to a million tis the average production cost of a ch model.
However, there were always outliers where the licensing fee fell way outside of this range, so this was not a hard rule.
What complicated this situation even further was that the standards used by the chers frequently changed over ti. The phases of a ch generation and other macroeconomic conditions could drastically raise or lower the multiplier, which the ch industry used as an unofficial asuring stick of the actual worth of a ch design on the date of its release.
The Red Association was also not entirely identical to the ch Trade Association.
Ves had read industry publications that suggested that the administrators in charge of this sort of stuff wanted to encourage more knowledge sharing, which in practice translated to legal technology theft.
That ant that many licensing fees set by the Red Association tended to be lower than the historical trend!
The production cost of a Standard Edition was around 2 MTA credits, so that ant that the multiplier of its design had reached as high as 37500. While that was still far from the normal upper boundary, it beca exponentially harder for ch designs to surpass a multiplier of 10,000. Only Master ch Designers and higher could design anything that earned a multiplier of over 100,000, and they did not reach it everyti.
For example, the average production cost of the Sparrow Storm Mark XII was estimated at around 1.4 MTA credits, though Ves did not know for sure as the information was not public.
Yet the up-front licensing fee was priced at only 25,000 MTA credits, which was a huge reduction from the licensing fee of the Mark XI during the previous ch generation!
The Sparrow Storm Mark XII essentially reached a multiplier of only 17857, which was a paltry figure for a gacorporation as dominant as SKL ch Industries!
This effectively showed that even the Red Association thought that this stopgap model was a disappointnt!
Even though the Mark XII ca out in the early days of the Hyper Generation, the lack of innovation, the high retention of many old design elents from the previous version of the ch design and the lack of added value to the ch community all negatively impacted its ' score'!
The only saving grace was that the existing market dominance of the Sparrow Storm ch line ensured that custor demand would remain high despite all of these shortcomings.
Ves personally thought that the multiplier for his Fey Fianna was set rather low, though he could guess why the chers did not make it higher than 37500.
The ch design lacked a high degree of optimization and refinent. Ves could have waited a year or hired a lot more assistant ch designers to improve the Fey Fianna by many small incrents.
His work also contained a lot of missed opportunities that he should have taken if he wanted to be more serious about topping the sales charts. He could have brought in knowledgeable specialists who could do a better job at improving the hyper energy shields and the gauss cannon fey.
All of these shortcomings combined with the uncertain prospects of a brand-new ch design that had no existing equivalent in the ch market depressed the multiplier of his Fey Fianna.
He smirked. 75,000 MTA credits was not chump change.
In absolute terms, this was still a large amount of cash. Very few second-class ch designers were willing to spare that much money to study other people's work, but it was practically trivial for first-class ch designers!
Normally, first-class ch designers had little reason to license any second-class chs, but this might be one of the rare exceptions. Ves was pretty sure that the majority of the people who licensed the Standard Edition of the Fey Fianna ca from the upper zones!
One of the indications that this was the case was that over a hundred of them also chose to license the Elite Edition of the Fey Fianna!
Its up-front licensing fee was as high as 6,000,000 MTA credits, which beca a new record for Ves!
With a record-breaking multiplier of 70588 for Ves, it beca abundantly clear that the chers appreciated the Elite Edition a lot more!
This was not surprising as its complexity and its absolute combat power were much higher.
The Elite Edition combined more advanced and developed applications of phasewater technology, hyper technology and E-technology. The results accomplished by this variant provided a lot more value to the Red Association and the ch industry at large.
In addition, as a quasi-first-class drone ch, it only took a few targeted upgrades to the power reactor and other sub-standard ch systems to make the Fey Fianna usable in first-class combat.
Even without these steps, the Elite Edition was still a good ch that could produce an outsized impact in any second-class ch force!
Ves' only regret was that virtually no one who licensed Elite Edition intended to develop their own variants and put them on sale. The first-class ch designers only paid 6,000,000 MTA credits for the right to research one of his best works to date.
The story was different for the Standard Edition of the Fey Fianna. As a much more comrcially viable ch model, the LMC easily expected it to sell millions of copies!
So long as the Fey Fianna lived up to all of its promises, it could continue to beco an enduring seller in the long run.
That could tempt plenty of ambitious ch designers in designing and selling their own variants of the Fey Fianna.
The relatively high multiplier ant that a third-party ch company needed to sell tens of thousands of copies in order to justify the investnt.
This was a bit much, as many ch buyers often flocked to original products unless they absolutely demanded features that were not present in the most authentic ch models.
Ves checked the figures yet again.
Over a thousand ch designers and ch companies licensed the Standard Edition, while around 150 of them licensed the Elite Edition.
With the sudden infusion of this amount of cash, the Larkinsons could already afford to fund the establishnt of hundreds of branches of the Larkinson Clan in distant middle zones!
It could also be used to place priority orders at second-class shipyards.
The money that Ves earned today might not co close to the profits earned from defeating a large alien fleet, but the difference this ti was that he did not have to fight any battles to earn this much money!
This was how ch designers usually solve their money problems.
Even if the LMC did not do anything else with the Fey Fianna, money would continue to roll in so long as there was sufficient demand.
The Living ch Corporation could just pretend to be a design studio and rely entirely on licensing and royalty fees to profit from the Fey Fianna.
Ves did not mind it if other ch companies succeeded in selling their own variants of his products.
The current policies of the Red Association seed to set the royalty fee sowhere between 5 to 30 percent of gross sales, though the chers occasionally adopted other formulas for specific reasons.
Whatever the case, the LMC was entitled to a cut of all of these proceeds, so the more variants got sold, the better!
Ves felt quite gratified that he had managed to solve the LMC and the Larkinson Clan's latent money concerns.
It was rare for a new line of chs to beco so popular at the start. The vast majority of comrcial chs published onto the market failed to attract so much custor demand, let alone rake so much licensing fees!
To think that Ves initially wanted to keep the Fey Fianna to himself. Turning it into another Larkinson-exclusive ch was a waste of its potential and an enormous missed opportunity.
The LMC would assuredly be able to use the Fey Fianna to beco prominent again. So long as Ves sustained its montum by releasing other good hyper chs in the coming months and years, his ch company would definitely have a chance to beco a larger player in the second-class ch market!
As Ves processed all of these thoughts in the privacy of his mind, he continued to address the crowd while holding Lucky in his arms.
Once the Elite Edition had unveiled a portion of their amazing combat potential, Ves explained the pricing, the availability and other comrcial information about his new ch line.
"The production of the Standard Edition of the Fey Fianna is likely to fall far short of current demand, so we would like to ask you to be patient. Each of you who orders a batch of this ch will enter a waiting list. The wait tis will likely ease in 3 to 6 months as our ch company is actively seeking to outsource production to many more third-party ch manufacturers."
The demand for the Fey Fianna had actually exceeded everyone's expectations. Gavin and the upper managent of the LMC must be tearing their hairs out due the huge amount of work required to persuade other ch factories to produce copies of the Fey Fiannas according to a specific production approach!
"The Elite Edition of the Fey Fianna can only be ordered by a select clientele that is willing to draw from their own stock of phasewater." Ves proceeded to add a bit more exclusivity to the current top product of the LMC. "We offer customization services for every acceptable client, so you can be assured that our products can fit into your existing ch roster as seamlessly as possible."
Custors who were able to afford quasi-first-class transphasic chs always demanded a lot more personalization. Even the best chs might not be suitable for their needs if the fit was too poor.
"We shall continue to hold nurous demonstrations and exhibitions of the Standard Edition of the Fey Fianna. You can continue to remain in your seats and observe our chs and fey in use. If that is not enough to satisfy your curiosity, you may send an application to us to test pilot the Fey Fianna for a short amount of ti. The arena grounds here will be split in many smaller spaces to allow as many of you to try out our new product. It's first co, first serve, so apply quickly!"
That imdiately aroused the interest of a lot of ch pilots in the crowd!
It was one thing to hear and see all of the amazing stuff about the Fey Fianna.
To be able to experience these benefits first-hand was a dream co true for many ch pilots!
For the LMC to allow its invited guests to try out the Fey Fianna on the spot was a definite mark of confidence in its latest product line!
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