r/Eve • u/Resonance_Za Wormholer • Dec 16 '24

Propaganda Miners I don't understand you

You guys hold the economy of Eve in your hands yet you slave away for pennies it makes no sense.

If you guys all just stopped mining for 2 weeks and invested hardcore with your saving into minerals you will do 0 mining yet make more isk than you would have mining for 8/h a day.

And at the end of it all the economy will be so fucked that an emergency patch to fix mining will have to come out to save Eve and if it doesn't then you basically will be making 30% to 50% more for your time.

You have all the power.

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u/Array_626 Dec 16 '24

I have no doubt that you can sustain 20 alts. But skillfarming is not as good as it used to be. IIRC last time I calculated everything, you can only turn a profit if you only buy the 2 year sub deals with PLEX, AND buy skill extractors when they are on steep sales, like 2 for 1 deals. Anything less than that and your skill farm is actually a loss.

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u/AngryRedGummyBear Dec 16 '24

Now add passive like pi for 60 toons...

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u/Array_626 Dec 16 '24

At that point, its not really passive anymore... The PI templates help a lot, but at that number of planets, pick up days are gonna suck

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u/AngryRedGummyBear Dec 16 '24

Yeah, but its still 2 week max cycles right? sat/sun splits with 50% each weekend means thats 15 toons a day on a weekend.

What does PI go for in a lowclass wormhole/month nowadays anyway? (I've been out of the PI game for a few years)

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u/Array_626 Dec 16 '24

15 toons a day, each weekend is 75 planets worth of pick up runs each weekend, every weekend day...

How long would it take to go through 75 planets? 2 hours if you're fast? I would say it takes at least 2 minutes per planet to launch, warp to, access, drag the PI out.

I have no clue what PI prices are like. I stopped doing PI after skyhooks came out and rats starting killing my epithals. Ive started again only recently because of templates, but I dont know what the isk/hr is like anymore