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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2015.12.09 16:55:20 -
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I would guess that every unit of tritanium is individually packaged in a hand-crafted artisanal box made by ORE, in Outer Ring, except there aren't any unboxing videos on Youtube.
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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2015.12.09 19:53:42 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:Because if you can compress minerals there is no point to compress ore
In fact we used to have a form of mineral compression and we removed it to make our compression more relevant
I don't think we need to go back to mineral compression as this system ads a level of finality when dealing with reprocessing and gives a reason to have someone with reprocessing skills in areas of space outside of NS
and MOST importantlyprevents the high refine rates of null sec from making it impossible for new players and small groups from competing
While those considerations aren't entirely without merit, it does make supply chain considerations for "pure" manufacturers somewhat... fucky, for lack of a better term, and blurs the boundaries between resource harvesting and production.
If I were running a machining shop, I wouldn't buy iron ore and handle the smelting myself, I'd call a foundry or steel wholesaler and order bar stock of whatever type/grade/alloy/however they differentiate various steel stock.
You need to be fairly massive before it becomes practical to split your efforts like that, but in Eve, it's the difference between two wildly disparate logistics scenarios.
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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2015.12.09 20:45:30 -
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Rowells wrote:
Think of water. I can't build an igloo with buckets of water, but I can with ice. Water has smaller volume (normally) than its solid form.
Good point. Why compare ore and minerals to things they actually resemble, such as... ore and minerals... when we can instead cite the rather rare property of a liquid that expands as it solidifies.
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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2015.12.10 19:09:00 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
Also again it had been tested mineral compression is bad for game balance and that tends to win out over what is realistic
Which is why I said, "There are gameplay reasons," before pointing out that your "Because weird RL edge case!" reasoning was dumb.
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