Gantrithor105
Acerbus Vindictum Critical Dissent
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Posted - 2008.06.03 15:38:00 -
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Originally by: Tasko Pal
Originally by: Marcus Tedric There are very few deposits of diamonds in the world.....
There's not a lot of gold now readily available.....
There's limited supplies of Uranium....
There's even less of the Rare Earths - hint in the name.
These are scarce resources - they are worth fighting over in a game simulation - which is what the intention is.
One thing to keep in mind is that on Earth when scarce resources get expensive, people find clever ways to exploit the more marginal sources. No they don't just find a new high quality gold mine, but it's long been the case that mining has expanded as the technology to exploit improves. Further, in an active mine, the clever miner can work on mining the little extras to add some profit. For example, most copper mines also dig up small quantities of other higher value metals like molybdenum, silver, and gold. Uranium and coal mining is another example. Most don't bother since uranium is difficult to handle and the market is very weird (you normally don't have to deal with nuclear proliferation regulations), but you can get uranium from coal.
So it seems reasonable to me for CCP to come up with ways to extract a little more from the moons. The role playing excuse is there and a reasonable approach would generate some new competition without just massively diluting the rare mineral market.
Another thing is that when a good gets really really expensive, there are ways in the real world to make the good out of cheaper materials, in other words to compensate for the increase in price of the good either at the expense of quality or by other trade offs such as increase in the consumption of other materials. I think I'll throw this out as a new idea.
One thing to consider though... consider a car which may be something you need to be competetive in many areas of today's society depending on your location. Oil is quickly becoming rare, and gas prices are rising. Are we fighting over oil? sure. But are we also coming up with alternative fuel transportation options. YES. In eve, we don't have that option.
Luxury items like gold and diamonds are just that... luxury. There's no point in talking about them as it relates to the eve world unless dysp was used primarily for faction ships. While you could liken the huge dysp controlling alliances to oil companies, there should be some role within invention to account for engineers finding solutions to problems of rare resources.
I'd say we need some new decryptors or something at the very least that allow a modification of the required resources to build a t2 ship.
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