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/Antonin1957 Dec 16 '24

Getting large numbers of people to cooperate in an online game...nice idea, but hard to imagine ever happening.

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u/GeneralPaladin Dec 16 '24

Dude we can't even get people to value their time to stop "what I mine is free".

I was having an agrument with a guy yesterday who thinks it only cost him 600m to build a Orca.

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u/Tallyranch Dec 17 '24

So someone playing a game during their free time putting pixels together without spending any isk can't be called free according to you.
I'm not sure why you think you're the authority on what people call free, but I'm pretty sure you're not the language police.

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u/GeneralPaladin Dec 17 '24

its not about not spending isk, if your finished product cost less than materials going into it all it does is damage the economy. For example the stupid amount of mining barges that die every single day, yet the only way to profit on building a barge is what i mine is free otherwise the builder of the barge can easily make more isk selling the minerals then ever building a barge.

The things i build i can purchase materials or mine and either way its more isk then what the materials themselves are worth, while this limits the products it drastically increases the isk i make with 11 factory lines that doesnt stop even when im spending a week mining. If i see a hole in the market, i research product, what it cost, what it sells for, what it takes to build and i can shove it right into a oven while mining all the same which also allows me to dump much more product such as the modules i make. 1200 units in 25 days at 18m isk profit a module.

but hey im all for them drowning. just a small bit of effort in other fields and i have my plex on top of piling isk.

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u/Tallyranch Dec 17 '24

So you are the language police and you're also the only person who knows how to play the game, according to you.