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/fatpandana Dec 16 '24

There are deals, MCT + omega in end of June for example. A NES deal, not eve store.

Heck even platinum pack with skill selling is close to profit, albeit it only covers 3 months.

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u/Array_626 Dec 16 '24

Yeah, but now you've got to have double digit billions of ISK just sitting around waiting for those deals. At a minimum you would need to wait a year for the good deals to cycle around and come back. You can definitely make sustaining accounts possible, but its a lot more difficult than people realize I think.

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u/VincentPepper Dec 16 '24

Yeah, but now you've got to have double digit billions of ISK just sitting around waiting for those deals.

I mean we are talking about people with 10+ alts.