Zedrik Cayne
Gallente
Standards and Practices
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Posted - 2009.09.28 18:21:00 -
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EvE is not a game of being nice or considerate. Its cutthroat out there.
You have options other than giving up. Some of them require time and effort. I'll list them in order of 'easy' to 'lunatic'.
1) Do a bit of math. How much would you earn just selling your minerals on the market instead of manufacturing? Calculate this in the number of hours you spend mining that 78000m3 of ore. (Let's assume you're 'okay' skilled in that retriver...you should be able to pull in about 300m3 of ore every minute per strip miner, so about 600m3 a minute) So 78000m3 of ore takes you...Just over two hours. (2 hours, 10 minutes, give or take a bit for missed mining cycles, less than full cycles, travel time) Plus hauling time..So let's call it...3 hours to make the math easier.
22 tractor beams will net you somewhere in the neighborhood of 17-18 million isk after taxes, manufacturing fees, etc. You mined about 500k worth of minerals per unit, and needed to buy the mid and high ends about 350k per unit if you are using buy orders. (I'm using eve-central's median buy order prices here for the prices).
So your total profit out of this is looking to be (being generous) about 10 million isk.
Just selling those minerals (500k per unit) would yield you about 11 million. (And that's not setting up a sell order..that's direct sale (assuming you can get the median price that eve-central is quoting, if you setup a sell order, you can get significantly more)
In effect, you would get more isk out of your operation just selling the minerals off instead of manufacturing.
2) Don't waste your time mining...setup buy orders for the minerals you need. Again assuming you can setup at the median buy prices and actually get them filled in a reasonable time frame, you are spending 850k per unit, profiting about 100k per unit (again, being generous). But you are not spending 3 hours mining. You could be doing something else with that time. (Or, mine as well...use your mining to supplement your buy orders)
3) Harrass the guy. Make it not worth his time to mine there. I suggest a cruiser with a Micro Warp Drive. And bump him off his mining spots out of range of the strip miners. He might just get the message and move to another belt where he can mine efficiently.
4) Declare War. If he's not in a player corporation, skip this one. If he is, why not? Wars have been fought over smaller things (1 cap booster 800 comes to mind). Tell him why the war was declared and he might have a change of heart and stop mining in 'your' belt)
5) Hire professionals. Isk is a wonderful thing. There are plenty of mercenary forces out there and some of them will even be hired on the cheap for things that are easy, especially if they are bored and out of work. Do your research on any prospective mercenaries. As with anything else in this game, there's a chance you will get scammed.
6) Suicide Gank. Get a bunch of friends together in cruisers and destroyers...fly over to the guy and blow his hulk into small pieces. Do it a couple times. He might get the message.
Eve is a game of 'don't get mad/emoragequit..get even'. You might find that satisfying.
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 Originally by: "RedSplat"
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