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Malcanis
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Posted - 2010.06.12 18:47:00 -
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15%? Jeez
Is now a good time to buy cheap carriers?
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Malcanis
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Vanishing Point.
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Posted - 2010.06.13 13:31:00 -
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 Originally by: Diomedes Calypso
Originally by: Malcanis
15%? Jeez
Is now a good time to buy cheap carriers?
well if you're going to use it tomorrow, as a warrior its always a good day to die in valor!
but if you're talking about saving a few isk,
This isn't a blip down.. it is due (most agree..with exceptions of course) to the elimination of the eliminated unlimited right to sell ore (via ships) to NPCs by a tactic some reffered to as insurance fraud (I personally don't think the word insurance applies to what they call insurance...so neither does the word fraud). Thats now reffered to in short hand as IER (i forget what that was an accronym for)
Ships traded at that NPC guarnteed floor.. which in turn set a floor to a "basket of minerals" needed to produce the ships.
There was some tiny hope that the reduction of mission refined loot would make up for the ore used in intentionally destroyed ship.. or perhaps that miners would turn their time to PI etc.
But its been my opinion that the practices of IER were accelerating so that a temporary matching of supply reductions wouldn't stem the increasing flows of ore through large scale mining operations with single people controlling many accounts...and perhaps with some of that the word 'macroing" would apply. A massive crack-down on that activity could send prices up sharply...but my gut tells me that most of that mining isn't done by people in the RMT but by real players skirting the edges of what is and isn't a macro...who could alter their habbits slightly to comply if needed.
At some point...ore prices get so low even the numbers of those people will start to drop off and people will start blowing up bigger ships using more ore.. the bc the new cruiser.. the bs the new bc.. the carrier the new bs? 300 million isk carriers would mean a lot more ore consumtion...there will be some bottom to ore prices.. probably a bit higher than that.
I dont need it to fight tomorrow. I'm buying a Nyx on the installment plan, as it were. If carriers are going to keep falling in price, I'll keep my ISK for now.
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Malcanis
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Vanishing Point.
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Posted - 2010.06.14 18:14:00 -
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I am genuinely baffled that they did not use player created POS/POS mods as a mineral sink
Why, CCP, why?
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Malcanis
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Vanishing Point.
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Posted - 2010.08.22 07:43:00 -
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Originally by: Whitehound
Edited by: Whitehound on 22/08/2010 07:23:27
Originally by: Akita T
Well, he feels hurt by the thought people are making bets against possible outcomes of a very complex system, and also about the existence of T2 BPOs. He's sensitive like that. We better not upset him and let him finish his warm milk, then go to bed clutching his safety blanket.
No, I do not feel hurt. For one am I disgusted by the length of this thread over a pointless bet, and secondly is it stupid to argue in all seriousness about it.
Are you saying the Earth's rotation is not a complex system?
Not too disgusted to do more than anyone else to keep it alive and growing though...
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