Qim Tra'ageser
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Posted - 2006.01.10 23:05:00 -
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Edited by: Qim Tra''ageser on 10/01/2006 23:06:12
I'm a miner. I've spent the time to fly my barge and my Mammoth, and to fire my T2 strip miners and crystals. When I go to belts that previously have served me well, I often blame the macrominers and their nefarious ways. Damn them. Damn them to the bad places.
But, something seems to be overlooked here--if macromining weren't successful, it wouldn't happen. How is success measured?
- Macrominers are doing a service that all industrialists are profiting from--namely, the mass-production of minerals, so that their own profits are increased by spending less money on production costs.
- I've noted (with sadness) myriad ISK-selling services on the web. $30USD for 100M ISK. Well, that's against the TOS we all agree to. Yet they still exist. And the implication there is that it's profitable for them to exist. People buy the ISK. The sellers are funded by macrominers selling minerals to producers. See #1.
What I mean to say here is that if it weren't working for them, they wouldn't do it. That means you, me, and everyone else needs to stop profiting from them. That means checking your suppliers. Don't just blindly buy from whoever is selling the cheapest (which, by the way, undermines the normal miners, who don't want to sell Tritanium in stacks of 1M for less than 1 ISK apiece). That means being litigious in your pursuit of appealing those obviously macroing. That means, so help me, making life as difficult as possible for these people.
And, so help me, DON'T BUY ISK ONLINE!
They know they're making the game less fun for the rest of us, and here we are talking about making it even worse for some of us (forcing real players out of the noob corps, for example, or making mining more difficult in general to make macroing near-impossible--and normal mining, for that matter). And the macroers are winning. And they will continue to do so as long as it continues to be massively profitable for them.
We did bring some of this on ourselves, you know, not to give them any amount of credibility. When a ship that costs 100k to build goes up on the market for 20M, you know something has gone terribly wrong.  |