Originally by: Liberty Eternal

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Edited by: Liberty Eternal on 02/01/2011 16:08:41

Well the truth is that we are all wearing the shackles of a false value system. Who gets to determine that bots are immoral anyway? It's ironic that we are all using computerised technology to play a game, but have banned computerised technology from making our lives easier in playing that game. Even at the forefront of scientific knolwedge, man remains intellectually stunted by narrow-minded dogma. We punish those who innovate and act logically, because the herd morality dictates it.

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Originally by: RAW23

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Originally by: leocaldari

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Originally by: RAW23

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Originally by: leocaldari

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TWO of the most important rules for trading

1) time is money
2) profit + loss = ZERO

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If by 2) you mean that trading is a zero sum game then that is, frankly, *******s as you point 1) makes clear (well, sort of clear).

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this is always the summary of the complete market actions

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Miner mines ore - sells ore - profits
Refiner buys ore - refines - sell minerals - profits
Hauler buys minerals - hauls them to Jita - sells minerals - profits
Manufacturer buys minerals - builds stuff - sells stuff at discount to Jita sell - profits
Trader buys goods below Jita sell - sells goods at Jita sell - profits
Pilot buys goods he wants at Jita sell - Loss?

A) the eve market is not a closed system, despite what traders who only think of goods changing hands with other traders may think - it has inputs and outputs.

B) It is possible to add value at various steps in the chain.

C) Potential financial 'loss', such as is incurred by selling at under market vprice can generate a gain in value elsewhere, for instance, in time. Since time is subjectively valued it is impossible to factor it into a neat zerosum closed system model.

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Originally by: Caldariftw123

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Originally by: AnakieNine

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I usually stay away from Jita but I would like thank Oracleofjita too, for the many billions I sucked out of him on a couple of days last year when visiting jita.

A couple of other players that are online who also like to be fleeced in the same way. Guess they are idiots or something?
Beefive
kayce Ravoc
Market Cop
Rudo Cop

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Ah so I'm not alone in poking Rudo Cop a little? :D

For anyone interested he was heavily involved in Rocket Fuel, that has spiked rather a lot recently btw, and has moved, along with Kayce Ravoc (remember him from the Technetium discussions?) into Robotics.


And to the above guy, I didn't seriously mean you are a bot, but I also meant it's not always so clear who is a bot and who is not. Though I have to admit some of the names in this thread I have thought of as bots before ..

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