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Kyra Felann
The Scope
Gallente Federation
9
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Posted - 2011.12.20 01:46:00 -
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Ignore the "minerals I mine are free" thing for now. It doesn't matter how you acquired them--they always have a value.
Let's say you (mine/steal/buy/are given/find) minerals that could be sold on the market for 100 million. It doesn't matter how you acquired them--if you can sell them on the market for 100 million, that means they are worth 100 million.
Let's say you take those minerals and make a ship out of them. Now, if that ship can be sold on the market for 110 million, great--you just made profit. If that ship can only be sold for 90 million, though, you lost money.
Turning something worth 100 million into something worth less than 100 million is losing money.
Let's try a real-world example: say you find a $20 bill on the ground (or Euros or whatever). Now I come up to you and offer to buy that $20 bill for $10. I say "It was free. You didn't pay any money for it--you just found it--so that means you're making $10 profit, right?" Would you agree to that deal? |
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
93
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Posted - 2011.12.20 01:49:00 -
[62] - Quote
Kyra Felann wrote:Let's try a real-world example: say you find a $20 bill on the ground (or Euros or whatever). Now I come up to you and offer to buy that $20 bill for $10. I say "It was free. You didn't pay any money for it--you just found it--so that means you're making $10 profit, right?" Would you agree to that deal? I will be using this example every time this comes up and I'm feeling helpful.
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Kyra Felann
The Scope
Gallente Federation
9
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Posted - 2011.12.20 01:52:00 -
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Akita T wrote:Technically, minerals you mine ARE free.
Then again, so is ISK. Yes, ISK is free, technically. In the same way minerals you mine are free.
Minerals you mine are not worthless.
And neither are they worth less than minerals you buy from the market.
If you want to reduce the worth of stuff you own... well... do whatever you like.
Just stop deluding yourself that you're not.
Exactly.
It's not about whether minerals you mine are free or not, it's about turning something you own into something that's worth less money.
People talking about maximum ISK/hour lead to people talking about "EVE is just a game" and in the end, both of them miss the point. Do whatever you want in EVE--mine, mission, pirate, mercenary work, whatever--just don't turn stuff you own into less valuable stuff, or if you do, at least admit to yourself and everyone else that you're throwing away money that's already practically in your pocket. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
581
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Posted - 2011.12.20 01:54:00 -
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Jaroslav Unwanted wrote:Akita T wrote:Technically, minerals you mine ARE free.
Then again, so is ISK. Yes, ISK is free, technically. In the same way minerals you mine are free.
Minerals you mine are not worthless.
And neither are they worth less than minerals you buy from the market.
If you want to reduce the worth of stuff you own... well... do whatever you like.
Just stop deluding yourself that you're not. Reality check .. What is an "value", what creates such, which is actually real and exist beyond our created measures.
The indicator of virtual value of things in this game is called ISK and that value is constantly readjusted.
The interactions between players determine the ISK value of most virtual objects or services.
It's as simple as that.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
Hazzard
Chaotic dynamics
8
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Posted - 2011.12.20 03:13:00 -
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If you think the rocks are free your an idiot. |
Asuri Kinnes
Adhocracy Incorporated
Adhocracy
93
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Posted - 2011.12.20 03:23:00 -
[66] - Quote
Hazzard wrote:If you think the rocks are free your an idiot.
The rocks are free - it's the game that costs money.
Wormholes: The *NEW* end game of Eve - Online:
No Local. No Lag. No Blues (No Intell Channesl). No Blobs.
NEW FEATURE: NO INCARNA! |
Mr Hellcat
Apocryphal Solutions
1
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Posted - 2011.12.20 04:27:00 -
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Kyra Felann wrote:Ignore the "minerals I mine are free" thing for now. It doesn't matter how you acquired them--they always have a value.
Let's say you (mine/steal/buy/are given/find) minerals that could be sold on the market for 100 million. It doesn't matter how you acquired them--if you can sell them on the market for 100 million, that means they are worth 100 million.
Let's say you take those minerals and make a ship out of them. Now, if that ship can be sold on the market for 110 million, great--you just made profit. If that ship can only be sold for 90 million, though, you lost money.
Turning something worth 100 million into something worth less than 100 million is losing money.
Let's try a real-world example: say you find a $20 bill on the ground (or Euros or whatever). Now I come up to you and offer to buy that $20 bill for $10. I say "It was free. You didn't pay any money for it--you just found it--so that means you're making $10 profit, right?" Would you agree to that deal?
Your real world example needs lots of work. You really need to compare apples to apples and not to oranges. |
Professor Alphane
Alphane Research Co-operative
7
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Posted - 2011.12.20 04:32:00 -
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Also if you take this 'ISK potential' maximisation to it's logical conclusion surely every one in highsec would be in Jita changing market orders all day.
YOU MUST THINK FIRST.... |
Ioci
Space Mermaids
14
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Posted - 2011.12.20 04:38:00 -
[69] - Quote
So um... how cheap are you selling these "free" rocks for?
I could buy some cheap, "free" rocks off you.. |
Baneken
Hyvat Pahat ja Eric
The Polaris Syndicate
26
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Posted - 2011.12.20 07:10:00 -
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Mr Hellcat wrote:/quote]
Your real world example needs lots of work. You really need to compare apples to apples and not to oranges.
Right so, you're at the market fare selling these fine apple tarts for 10$ from the same amount of apples (1kg) that they guy in the next stall is selling away for 20$ per kg.
Yet you still somehow think you're making a good if not even better profit thne your rival because those apples after all grew all by them self and you only spent some of your free time (not money) on picking them and this also makes the said apples free.
For this analogue we assume that apples in your garden would actually have a cost worth mentioning ie. you would beat someone for stealing your apples from your garden. |
Daemeon Fyral
Kinda'Shujaa
5
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Posted - 2011.12.20 07:14:00 -
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Diana Dour wrote:Alt posting to protect myself from further persecution.
It's bad enough that the industry community has to deal with idiots on the outside
"y u mine?"
"to build things you ******* idiot"
Why do people play minecraft honestly? There must be some appeal, not everyone enjoys spamming grenades in 24/7 metro (stupid fps reference).
But when I mine because I want to build a ship and I build the ship, I'm either going to fly it or sell it. It's no use in the hangar collecting dust.
So I price it accordingly.
But then whoa!
"Hey diana why the **** are you pricing it so low, you're losing money."
"No I'm not dipshit, you are losing money I got these rocks for free *******"
If I wanted to be beholden to market prices 24/7 and kill myself over spread sheets I would buy the minerals like you.
If I just wanted to mine for money and not build things I would go to 0.0 with the idiots.
I mine because I like to build and can sell for whatever I want.
0.0 players who don't realize that 0.0 miners are the ones pushing rocks for money are WRONG, high sec miners like building things, stupid fucks.
Industrialist who buy off of the market lol@u I will continue to undercut you, because it is half the fun.
Thank you, thank you so very very much. by selling for less than mineral cost because you where using your "Free rocks" you have helped me out more than you could possibly imagine. Now I don't need to spend my own valuable time producing that ship, and I'm actually gonna make a higher profit margin than I would otherwise. so thanks.
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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
650
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Posted - 2011.12.20 07:57:00 -
[72] - Quote
Because some of us found it much more effective to mine with guns.
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Zimmy Zeta
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
175
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Posted - 2011.12.20 09:49:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote:Anyone that is upset that the OP is selling his BS below cost should instead be upset that they never realized they should simply buy his ships and resell them for a profit. 
this.
Any industrialist worth his salt should watch for those cheap opportunities and just buy the damn stuff. Afterwards you could
a. sell the items at normal market value
b. reprocess them.
-.- |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
2122
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Posted - 2011.12.20 10:16:00 -
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Ioci wrote:So um... how cheap are you selling these "free" rocks for?
I could buy some cheap, "free" rocks off you..
Well, that's one way of approaching it: while the OP's minerals certainly aren't free for him, he's kind enough to make them free for usGǪ 
His loss is our gain.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
If not, contact Miss DSA to shed your wardecs. |
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
142
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:09:00 -
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Akita T wrote:Jaroslav Unwanted wrote:Akita T wrote:Technically, minerals you mine ARE free.
Then again, so is ISK. Yes, ISK is free, technically. In the same way minerals you mine are free.
Minerals you mine are not worthless.
And neither are they worth less than minerals you buy from the market.
If you want to reduce the worth of stuff you own... well... do whatever you like.
Just stop deluding yourself that you're not. Reality check .. What is an "value", what creates such, which is actually real and exist beyond our created measures. The indicator of virtual value of things in this game is called ISK and that value is constantly readjusted. The interactions between players determine the ISK value of most virtual objects or services. It's as simple as that.
So it is indeed man-created. It is "real" but does not really exist outside our perception. Limited understanding and petty world we somehow manage to create. |
bitters much
Nekkid Inc.
Higginbotham and Bailey's Circus
3
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:22:00 -
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I mined once, thought that the gained minerals came for free till I realized that in the process of mining I lost 3 million braincells  |
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
142
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:25:00 -
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bitters much wrote:I mined once, thought that the gained minerals came for free till I realized that in the process of mining I lost 3 million braincells
Start drinking alcohol regluarly.. As it turned up... regular usage of alcohol is increasing number of brain cells...
But there is one but... Those new cells are connected to the need for alcohol. |
Anshio Tamark
Avitus Lugus
87
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:39:00 -
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Pak Narhoo wrote:You should be stupid if you mine.
Why would one be stupid to mine? I know I'd rather sit for an hour or two after a stressing day and mine, instead of buying the minerals I need. Why? Because this way I get to decide how much I'll charge for my goods. Not someone else. If I want to sell Frigates at less than half price, I do it. I don't care about the competitors' prices. I just set my prices so I know I can get it sold. |
Lexmana
Imperial Stout
105
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:40:00 -
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I support this product and/or service.
"My rocks are free because I mine them myself " is just the industrialist equivalence of suicide ganking and also completely within the EULA. |
Rauliq Noikiniggle
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:40:00 -
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If its not 35mil+/hr you aren't mining.
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Jagga Spikes
Spikes Chop Shop
48
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:44:00 -
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i honestly love all the people that keep providing cheap stuff. keep it going! |
enterprisePSI
Unimatrix 0.1
39
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Posted - 2011.12.20 11:56:00 -
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If you mine, you're dead inside. The dead cannot make profit. Therefore the minerals you mine are free.
The tears of the many, outweight the tears of the few. Or the one.
-«enterprise-psi |
Siigari Kitawa
Push Industries
Push Interstellar Network
55
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Posted - 2011.12.20 12:00:00 -
[83] - Quote
LETS ALL GO RUN INCURSIONS AND GET RICH TOGETHER
Need stuff moved? Push Industries will handle it.
Servicing highsec and lowsec - and we do it faster and more reliably than anyone else.
Ingame channel: PUSHX |
KaarBaak
155
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Posted - 2011.12.20 12:03:00 -
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Just seems like the "Eve is just a game" vs "Internet spaceships is serious business" crowds.
There apparently is no middle ground.
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Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
143
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Posted - 2011.12.20 12:05:00 -
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enterprisePSI wrote:If you mine, you're dead inside. The dead cannot make profit. Therefore the minerals you mine are free.
If you live to make profit you are dead, and therefore the profit is meaningless.
Same bullshit, all-way around.
Honestly people are ****** beyond redemption, they do everything for money, which are by its very existence make-believe, in fact in the "dark ages" you payed 1/10th of what your income was, now you pay 8/12 and i am being generous and you are actually happy about it.. So go figure.. .
Its time for revolution... |
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
98
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Posted - 2011.12.20 12:14:00 -
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enterprisePSI wrote:If you mine, you're dead inside. The dead cannot make profit. Therefore the minerals you mine are free. And then the carebear was a zombie.
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Keltaris Cesaille
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
5
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Posted - 2011.12.20 12:49:00 -
[87] - Quote
Hello? CONCORD?
I think i just got trolled |
Tanya Powers
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
506
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Posted - 2011.12.20 13:22:00 -
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Mirima Thurander wrote:U MAD about something, and BTW if you think the rocks you mine are free your wrong, time is money
You lost all objectivity about what a game is, what an internet game is, and about time/money.
If you're "playing" then you consent "giving" time for something, in return you can have 2 rocks or 1 gazillion depending on the effort you put. No where this "time" you GAVE for "playing" is money for you.
Because if you really think so, you're just an RMT and just admit it by saying so.
Time is money if you come to my office RL and make me spend my time hearing your tears your silly comments and ask for candies.
And because MY time when I'm in MY OFFICE at WORK, is money that you can probably not afford yourself to pay, I can tell you for sure that when you play any INTERNET GAME all you win is self satisfaction because if you assure every one here it's about money, then your breaking the EULA and selling in game items for RL cash witch can bring you some problems.
At least when you bot and break the rules make yourself little and humble, make yourself forget. Instead of posting things like this. |
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
100
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Posted - 2011.12.20 13:25:00 -
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Tanya Powers wrote:Depature from the plantation I'm pretty sure he meant in-game money.
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YuuKnow
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
14
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Posted - 2011.12.20 14:20:00 -
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Diana Dour wrote:But then whoa!
"Hey diana why the **** are you pricing it so low, you're losing money."
"No I'm not dipshit, you are losing money I got these rocks for free *******"
If I wanted to be beholden to market prices 24/7 and kill myself over spread sheets I would buy the minerals like you.
If I just wanted to mine for money and not build things I would go to 0.0 with the idiots.
I mine because I like to build and can sell for whatever I want.
Its because if you sell the ship for less than the cost of the raw minerals themselves then you could have made more isk just selling the minerals at market value. For example. If you could have sold the minerals to a instant buy order for 30 mil, but instead you build a ship and sell the ship for 20 mil, then you have effectively jipped yourselve out of 10mil isk. The value of most Tech 1 items = there mineral cost + a small percentage markup.
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