Berikath
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Posted - 2010.10.12 13:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Roismatola
Edited by: Roismatola on 11/10/2010 18:21:27
All of this may be very true, the guy isn't getting his money worth for the plex, but in the long run things couldn't be worst. The mineral price just keeps lowering and the plex which was around 300M is now impossible to get under 370M. In the long run this is crashing the market even more and destroying the plex viabillity for everyone in the game... At this rate people will have to spend the whole month mining just to pay the plex.
Originally by: Roismatola
actually there ain't many thing more profiable than mining, especially for those who don't hve a few years of game on it. Although one would expect prices to lower if people didn't bought it, those guys buying all the plex bellow 400M and selling higher will not allow it to happen. As it is, it's a giant sinkhole already and I doubt they will stop doing it. It would be much more viable if people simply stopped buying at all unless the price was 300M or bellow. Of course, the chances of making it happen are just staggering.
1. There are lots of things in-game more profitable than mining. LOTS. Mining is crap for income, but scales very easily and can be done while watching TV (or by bots).
2. Let's talk about PI. First, let's assume someone can maintain a ratio of 2 extractors per BIF- certainly very doable. Now, let's look at one character with level 4 skills; in order to pay for a 400 million ISK PLEX per month, they will need to sell their product at 427 ISK per unit; there are several products which have been at or above that level consistently. That's fairly low-maintenance. Now, how 'bout if they had all 3 characters on their account with level 5 skills? Then they would need to sell their product at about 105 ISK per unit to pay for 1 400m PLEX per month with just PI. Even Biofuels is above that mark.
Note that this is JUST from PI. It doesn't include anything else that you could be doing with that account every month. It also doesn't require hours of staring at asteroids in a weakly-tanked 130 million ISK ship. If you want to find candidates for why PLEXes are getting relatively more expensive, this is a good one.
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