Gorinia Sanford
Sons of Russ
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Posted - 2012.05.05 19:15:00 -
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Alestr Calmaine wrote:I'm posting this here because it's an industry-related topic, that and because I have no idea what I'm doing.
I just wanted to ask a question: what would be the consequences of some sort of EVE-wide miners' strike? What would happen if every mining laser, everywhere, was switched off for say, six months or longer? Would anything happen? I read somewhere that CCP injects extra minerals into the market to balance out player-distribution, but if they didn't, if minerals only came from player-mining, what would be the effects on the EVE economy and gameplay in general? I suppose people could reprocess unwanted mods to get more minerals, but I think Inferno promises that NPCs won't carry T1 loot anymore, so that might dry up pretty fast. I think anyone could guess that mineral prices would increase, but I want to know how it would affect things like ship-production, corp-wars and the huge sov-wars out in 0.0 space. I know the big alliances have their own miners, but I'm just theorising here. I'm thinking that, if the strike goes on long enough, ships and mods might become precious commodities, if they can't be replaced so easily, and the effect that has on EVE in general could be significant. I don't know, I'm sure there are dozens of gameplay-related reasons why this wouldn't work. But if for a moment, it did work, what would the consequences be if the griefers got their wish of a miner-free EVE? Would it be a better EVE?
But, that's just my idea, because miners get a lot of grief (see what I did there?!) though they are what keeps the fires of war burning. And since Hulkageddon is on I've had nothing much to do until my corp logs on.
And while you're waiting, do a few missions. Sure, it doesn't make you as much, but at least you're gaining loyalty points and such.
As for the strike, hell, not so much not mining, more like not selling them and causing a shortage of minerals in general. The issue is getting enough people on board to go along with the plan. Some folks are going to want to still make money and will bypass the strike.
In order for any strike to work, you'd need, at rough guess, approximately 60% to 70% to participate (please note I pulled these numbers completely out my arse, but it's just my guess). |