Friggz
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Posted - 2007.03.16 14:06:00 -
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Ok, lets assume for a moment that your right and ratting does make more money then mining. Theres basicly no way to 'fix' it. The amount of money players make mining can only be adjusted by CCP in one way, and its not particularly a good idea or garenteed to work. You can take my word for it or read the wall of text below.
I know what your probably thinking "Just make it easier to mine!" Ok, CCP makes it easier for you to mine. That means CCP makes it easier for everyone to mine. What happens? The amount of minerals on the market increases while the demand remains static. The laws of supply and demand dictate that the prices will then lower because theres more competiton for the same demand.
From an economical point of view, ratting and mining are completely different because mining circulates currency already in existance whereas ratting creates new money from outside the system. Basicly Eve's economy works like this:
ISK Enters system primarly through ratting and missions
ISK circulates the system through player trades, primarly mining and manufactering
ISK leaves the system primarly through priacy and alliance wars.
Since mining doesn't create extra ISK the amount of money a miner makes from mining is completely reliant on the supply and demand as I said. When you kill a rat its a garenteed payday. When you try to sell minerals its not. Someone has to be out there willing to pay what your asking and have the ISK to pay it.
If you took a single isk you got from selling a mineral and traced it back to who owned that isk since its creation you'd eventually trace it back to a mission or npc bounty almost everytime. Maybe you'd have to go back 100 transactions but that isk had to have come from somewhere.
Remember, mining can only circulate existing currency, and the existing currency miners make all came from ratting in the first place. What does this mean?
Simple: That the amount of money people make from ratting directly effects the amount of money miners can make from mining. They circulate existing currency, therefore the amount of currency in circulation dictates what people are able to pay for minerals. If people don't have money they can't buy minerals. Its that simple.
So, we can't make mining easer because it increases supply, we can't reduce the amount ratters make because then people have less money to spend on minerals. Whats left?
Well whats left is increasing demand. There are two ways to do this. The first is increase the demand on ships and modules by having more getting blown up. Well that doesn't help miners much, you get more for your minerals but you have higher expenses so it balances out. Funny how everything always balances out, isn't it?
Nope, the ONLY way to increase demand that yields extra profitability would be to increase the amount of minerals required to make everything. Take the number and bump it across the board. Now your creating more demand. If your still with me from the first paragraph I said this wasn't a particularly good idea and I mean it. If you did increase the amount of minerals required to make items, you increase the price of minerals, but you also drasticly increase the cost of ships and modules because not only do manufacters need to pay more per mineral they need more of them two. Its a double whammy to manufacters. They would be forced to raise the prices on ships and modules. What does this mean? Basicly that a single ISK wouldn't be worth as much as it is now. If the price of everything you buy goes up 20% that means the currency your using is basicly 20% less valuable then it was before. This would effect everyone. Including miners. So now your getting more ISK but that isn't as valuable as it was before.
Sorry but miners are slaves to the econmy they exist in. Theres no reliable way to increase money miners make without completely screwing over the economy.
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