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Kyle Myr
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.28 05:55:00 -
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Sigras wrote: TL;DR I understand that alchemy could push the Tech price to essentially cost, but that would require a lot of people doing a lot of work for almost no return, just like mining could push the mineral price to zero, but who would do all that work for nothing?
The fact cobalt is currently mined below cost, as are many other low end moon minerals, as a way to recoup fuel costs on a tower used for other purposes?
Edit: I can't explain this from a behavioral standpoint, I simply point to the fact it's being done right now as proof. |
Kyle Myr
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.29 01:57:00 -
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Sigras wrote:im not having trouble with that, my rebuttal was to the people who said that alchemy would be done with 0 profit. Im saying that nobody would do the alchemy on a tower for 0 profit, especially since that now means the tower cant be used for much else. which is not the case with just mining cobalt and dumping it into a silo.
My contention is that the idiots who sell their products assuming the minerals they mine are not free are not (for the most part) running POSs
Again, the current margins on a lot of types of alchemy, and the presence of towers running these reactions in rented space and low sec suggests you're wrong. I've scanned plenty of towers that mine evaporites and nothing else. I can understand your personal view that the amount of effort that goes into maintaining a POS isn't worthwhile without a good return on effort invested, but other people would rather undercut, sell their stuff, and just be able to have fuel costs met for their safe sport and can of ammo/CHA/SMA/whatever. |
Kyle Myr
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.31 00:42:00 -
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Don't trust Dotlan's moon scan data. At best, it's incomplete. At worst, it's a fabrication. |
Kyle Myr
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.31 02:35:00 -
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EvilweaselSA wrote:Kyle Myr wrote:Don't trust Dotlan's moon scan data. At best, it's incomplete. At worst, it's a fabrication. Those scans are likely accurate because when they were uploaded there'd have been no reason to lie.
Fair enough. I'd certainly believe Cobalt, but I just remember the odd bit of 'found' Tech that some director other squirreled away that we happened across in the north in Branch, Tenal, and Venal. No one had reasons to lie about Cobalt, though, as it wasn't profitable (then, or likely now), then, so I see why you say that. |
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