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Ion Corp.
NightSong Directorate
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Posted - 2013.04.25 19:12:00 -
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Aurelius Valentius wrote:Has anyone ever had a successful marketing model for making income from boosting other miners in your system? I have tried to do this a few times, with little to now success - people either don't want to pay anything for a boost, or get it for free... this seems at odds with the capitalist model of the economy... *yes I have been reading Adam Smith of late"
Three must be a matrix that allow someone to charge a nominal fee with success for a win-win boosting/mining... it seems a valid career choose, to be a "mining foreman" in a command and control ship giving out valuable services to miners in barges and exhumers.
Any ideas or success stories? Models? theories? guess? insane-delusions?
Orca boosts are a great thing, but unless you're also hauling for the person the value gained from the boosting is pretty minimal. Since most solo players will be (in most cases) mining in a retriever or mackinaw and mining to station the gains per hour will be marginal when you consider time spent warping to station, dropping off, warping back. Also most likely these people are AFK / Idle mining so the increase boosts actually means more work (more frequently having to haul to station).
But the other problem is that if you are offering hauling services as well there is no guarantee that you will auctually contract the ore/minerals after they are done. Why should they trust you? Once they give you their ore there is no reason why they should expect you to give it back. There is also the problem with sharing fleets with people you don't know. A player could join your fleet and then start fleet warping to miners to gank them.
So overall simply offering boosts is a minimial service many players don't need, will not trust you, or have boosts from someone else.
You wold be better off joining a mining corp, or contacting several mining corps and offer your services to their mining ops. Basically when they plan a mining op they contact you, and you join them, boost and haul, and you get a share of what is mined. With this setup you are offering a much better service that has much more value, and you'll actually make more isk/hour.
If I was doing this I would research what mining corps/groups are in my area (region, 10+/- jumps away) and contact them. I would explain what my mining boosts skills were, and how much on average a miner would make per hour and basically explain to them why they need my services. Any mining group who does not have a maxed Orca would jump at the offer, you simply need to build trust. If you can temp join their corp (and dump ore into a corp hangar) then even better. |