Fester Addams
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Posted - 2003.08.08 03:41:00 -
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As some have pointed out the people who want to raise the prices are not interested in having a working market, they are interested in raising their profit.
It is not the same thing.
To the people that are upset about others selling at mineral price or even below forget one thing.
Some people dont want to, after spending alot of time mining, spend alot of time setting up the sales of minerals.
You have to account for the gametime used to fly round and sell off the minerals and as time is the only comodity that has any real fixed value any pretended logic about miners having to be paid, insurence costs having to be accounted for and whatnot becomes completely moot. Time is isk, if you can transform the minerals into one big lump and sell it off at the same price then well they earned alot of cash by simply mining more minerals rather than flying about to try to peddle off the minerals.
wich meens, if you sell the minerals as minerals for x or as a ship for x then you have made the same profit.
Also with the pirate situation being as it is ships NEED to be cheep, at the moment the pirate corps can easily take down a battle ship in seconds, that may be ok for the players that belong to huge corps who do massive corp mining sessions with ample protection, but to the small corps and the soloplayers a battleship is a dream we will most probably never see.
At the moment there are a very limited number of players, sadly it seems to be dropping, wich meens there is a shortage of demand, a shortage of demand meens you have to lower prices to attract the buyer (economics 101, supply and demand) at this moment its a buyers market, yes people have alot of isk however as the number of people is so low you as the seller have 2 choises, lower the prices or dont make a sale :)
Lastly then, a way to guarantee prices go up, right now all I have to do to build an item is to get the minerals install the BP and go off to play the game for a few hours and miracously the item gets built. I prefer it this way as it meens you dont have to tie up your account in stations waiting for production to complete however wouldnt it give prices a boost if you actually had to supervice the construction of the items being built.
Its a game, some things are ment to be illogical or noone would play.
In any case the attempt to blocade prices will fail, as soon as an idealist gets his hand on a battleship BP all hell will break loose, I for one would gladly sell copies off left and right for the mineral equivilent of the cost for one battle ship, each copy would earn me a ship and the person buing it would consider me generous :)
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