Nymos
Celtic Anarchy
Anarchy Empire
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Posted - 2006.11.02 21:29:00 -
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 Originally by: NATMav
It doesn't cost anything to mine your own stuff. 
nope, there are costs related to doing stuff yourself like mining. the cost of doing something is the profit you give up for alternative things you could do (called opportunity costs). so the cost of mining white glaze in shihuken is the most profitable thing you could have done in that time. that doesn't show directly in your wallet, but it's still less income that count as "costs".
@ OP:
the problem with a shortage of some minerals is that everyone goes for the ore that offers the best bang for the buck. mining in 0.0 on a larger scale is usually only done in good systems with rare ore because it's just too much trouble. so basically you go for crokite or bistot or something that yields the holy grail mineral "megacyte". zyd and mega are also the lowest volume mineral to move around.
a really interesting chart would be a split of sources of minerals. like: mined in empire, mined in 0.0/low-sec and especially, yielded from reprocessed mission loot. some people say they don't bother grabbing loot yet, grabbing every can that drops, the minerals from reprocessed loot are a considerable amount. unfortunately, that's a significant efforts in datamining, so don't bother with that, devs, please hehe.
the good thing of free market is that if you see an opportunity you can just take it. noone wants to mine veldspar (except chribba) and you feel trit is too highly priced? mine veldspar :). you can never have enough trit for battleship and cap ship production. the market should be happy to have farmers in empire to mine veld and scord at all.
there are enough roids and belts to mine in empire that are not mined out. plenty. or do you mean high grade ore is mined out too quickly? sure is. can't have only high grade ore though or what would the price of isogen and higher grade minerals drop to? people tend to maximize their profits after all. so high-sec omber is a quick race to mine out, then there's all the low-end ore that people don't like mining.
can you blame the market for that? what employer would you choose if two offer the same working conditions and one pays less? the more profitable one other things equal of course. also, don't forget that there's much more isk in circulation nowadays.
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