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Elepherious
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Posted - 2009.06.25 00:02:00 -
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Any one else notice a HUGE down flux in macro miners over the last couple of days? |
Some Advisor
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Posted - 2009.06.25 00:08:00 -
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maybe they had their holidays or day off or were in renewing cycle or refitting cycle or so.. they will be back, dont worry :-/ |
Elepherious
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Posted - 2009.06.25 00:16:00 -
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oi, good point, when is the Chinese new year..? or the Korean .... Korea fest...? |
Dario Wall
Caldari Corvus Industries
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Posted - 2009.06.25 00:20:00 -
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I heard there was a massive ban of over 2000 accounts or so that were confirmed macroers/ISK sellers. Haven't found the official statement on it myself yet so who knows.
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IVeige
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:03:00 -
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well when ice and ore prices will get a huge price increase, then it will mean that all macros are gone
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wtbrandomnamegenerator
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:04:00 -
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I heard that if you bend over and whistle "Dixie" in the raing, monkey's will fly out of your butt.
Somehow, I bet mine has more factual basis.
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Aschelan
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:19:00 -
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I don't see why mass bannings of macros is all that far-fetched. Blizzard does it by the hundreds of thousands. Difference is, they brag about it...
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Jolla Skyia
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:23:00 -
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Originally by: IVeige well when ice and ore prices will get a huge price increase, then it will mean that all macros are gone
I can't wait... Trit is way too low right now so I've just been stock piling it.
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Some Advisor
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:43:00 -
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Originally by: IVeige well when ice and ore prices will get a huge price increase, then it will mean that all macros are gone
all macros? no. not all.. one small town refuses to bow down to the romans.... oh wait... hmm nm :)
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Admiral Valdore
The Ronin Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.06.25 01:48:00 -
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Originally by: wtbrandomnamegenerator I heard that if you bend over and whistle "Dixie" in the raing, monkey's will fly out of your butt.
Somehow, I bet mine has more factual basis.
This. This holds the answer for the OP. SEARCH DEEP INSIDE!
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Hithero Wolf
Caldari Mahatma Productions
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Posted - 2009.06.25 04:17:00 -
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Originally by: IVeige well when ice and ore prices will get a huge price increase, then it will mean that all macros are gone
Jita sell price for nitrogen isotopes up with about 10% in teh last day or so.
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Belmarduk
Amarr Imperial Shipment
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Posted - 2009.06.25 04:23:00 -
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If this is really the case that CCP is regularry mass-banning macrominers my faith in CCP about the MM-issue is restored. Greetings Belmarduk
Mainchar:
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northwesten
Amarr Trinity Corporate Services Novus Ordo Mundi
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Posted - 2009.06.25 04:26:00 -
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Originally by: Jolla Skyia
Originally by: IVeige well when ice and ore prices will get a huge price increase, then it will mean that all macros are gone
I can't wait... Trit is way too low right now so I've just been stock piling it.
Trit prices just ok it's not low! tho I notice the market going down! tho trit use to be at 1.20. Tho if u have huge roids means the real miner can wipe it clean. Did that last weekend and I able to have a Very high mining yeild because of it.
So really Trit price is not low!
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
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Posted - 2009.06.25 06:38:00 -
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They will never be out of game as they provide 24% of subs income to CCP. Way too much to cut away. |
BiggestT
Caldari Oz Space Diggers
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Posted - 2009.06.25 06:46:00 -
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I reckon its got a lot to do with rising gtc prices, less demand is placed on buying illegal isk when its almost as profitable, and much easier, to do it the lega way with gtc buying and selling.
I.E. GTC sellers are outcompeting macro isk sellers (and who said high gtc prices were a bad thing? :P) |
Verx Interis
Amarr SkyNet.
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Posted - 2009.06.25 06:46:00 -
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Originally by: Kuolematon They will never be out of game as they provide 24% of subs income to CCP. Way too much to cut away.
Basically. Also, dumbasses who buy ISK end up in negative billions and have to buy GTC to get a positive wallet, giving CCP even MORE money. Either that or they're really stupid and they try to buy more ISK and end up in even further negative. Thus when they finally realize they cannot buy ISK illegally, they have to spend a ****load of real money to be able to play.
Seriously, rvery billion ISK illegally sold is like $70 for CCP. |
Kaptain Kruncher
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Posted - 2009.06.25 06:55:00 -
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Originally by: Kuolematon They will never be out of game as they provide 24% of subs income to CCP. Way too much to cut away.
If Macro Miners pay for their accounts with isk from profits they made macro mining, how is this paying for 24% of subs?
\Thread fails to deliver anything useful, unless paranoic speculation is useful.
I would be happy if Macro Miners got the chop though.
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Aslann
Gallente Malevolent Evolution
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Posted - 2009.06.25 07:02:00 -
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Originally by: Aschelan I don't see why mass bannings of macros is all that far-fetched. Blizzard does it by the hundreds of thousands. Difference is, they brag about it...
The difference is Blizzard makes a lot more money from banning macros, as WoW has a lot higher start up price as EVE (which you can basically start for only a subscription fee with the trials etc, while WoW requires around 80e purchase cost of all expansions etc). They also use the bannings to pad their sales figures as all the banned accounts instantly buy new keys to continue they illegal activities (as blizzard doesnt actually ban the actual macro'er/credit card, they ban accounts). ______________________
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Andrea Erlang
Caldari Erlang Biolabs
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Posted - 2009.06.25 07:25:00 -
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Originally by: Kaptain Kruncher
Originally by: Kuolematon They will never be out of game as they provide 24% of subs income to CCP. Way too much to cut away.
If Macro Miners pay for their accounts with isk from profits they made macro mining, how is this paying for 24% of subs?
\Thread fails to deliver anything useful, unless paranoic speculation is useful.
I would be happy if Macro Miners got the chop though.
Basically this. I never really got the point why people keep saying 'Macro miners also pay, CCP would never ban them.'
Let's be honest, the only thing this would change is that PLEX prices would go down, since demand would also drop a fair bit. It could also happen, that the plex prices would return to the previous state [anyone remember 30d GTCs for 150m? ^^] and thus encouraging people to open more accounts. With the lower plex prices, some people would have to buy more to get the same amount of ISK, while some would stop selling, so in the end, the supply would probably even out.
But that's just speculation... What isn't speculation is, that even if CCP bans all macro miners, the amount of money they'll get is the same, the only difference is, someone else will get that plex card for a bit cheaper. |
Kezzle
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Posted - 2009.06.25 07:50:00 -
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Originally by: Kaptain Kruncher
If Macro Miners pay for their accounts with isk from profits they made macro mining, how is this paying for 24% of subs?
Every paid account has to be paid by someone. If macro miners buy PLEXes with their bazillions of ISK, someone else had to pay cash to get that GTC, no? So, assuming that 24% to be real in some way, even if only for the sake of argument, "24%" of subscription income (or whatever it's 24% of) is being driven by the macroers.
I'm not even going to start on why 24% is a dumb figure to pull out of your ass for what proportion of accounts are macroers. |
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Phantom Slave
JUDGE DREAD Inc.
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Posted - 2009.06.25 07:55:00 -
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Edited by: Phantom Slave on 25/06/2009 07:55:27 I had a long post written out, but the forum ated it. |
Illwill Bill
Svea Rike
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Posted - 2009.06.25 08:01:00 -
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CCP, if you truly did ban 2k+ macro miners, then will you please have my internet spaceship babies?
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Rordan D'Kherr
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.06.25 08:28:00 -
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WTB official "We ban macro miners" statement. |
iP0D
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Posted - 2009.06.25 10:15:00 -
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CCP always does periodic cleanups, but I bet the GTC / Plex price & volume changes does have an effect as well.
Might be an idea to do some datamining and get a devblog on it, just for kicks.
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Killer Gandry
Caldari Red Horizon Inc
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Posted - 2009.06.25 11:20:00 -
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Ow macro's?
How about this one.
Quit obvious but ignored
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Cypherous
Minmatar Liberty Rogues Rally Against Evil
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Posted - 2009.06.25 11:40:00 -
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Originally by: Killer Gandry Ow macro's?
How about this one.
Quit obvious but ignored
That could just be an EVE addict, the nnames aren't all gibberish do you have proof of said players doing macro activities?
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Chantilly Layce
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Posted - 2009.06.25 11:52:00 -
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Seen alot of CNR's disappear in a few of the mission hubs I like to ninja... I have their names in my Buddylist... haven't seen them login for days now.
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space hobo
Gallente DIE WITH HONOUR
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Posted - 2009.06.25 12:19:00 -
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ingunn is empty to that system normaly has 100+ in local at anytime all macro hualing away 23/7
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Etien Aldragoran
DarkStar 1 GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.06.25 13:22:00 -
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For your wallet's sake you better hope they weren't banned.
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Nuzzy Futs
Amarr Hedion University
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Posted - 2009.06.25 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: Dario Wall I heard there was a massive ban of over 2000 accounts or so that were confirmed macroers/ISK sellers. Haven't found the official statement on it myself yet so who knows.
Hopefully this is true - I would love to see the GM's release a count of people banned for macroing and publicly air those banned/warned for isk buying. Awww Nuts. |
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