Astria Tiphareth
Caldari
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2008.07.24 08:08:00 -
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 Originally by: Sharpclaw
2) Fewer minerals on the market will affect sellers and producers. Agreed. Minerals will become a lot more expensive and it will take miners a long time to ramp up and make up the difference. The amount of minerals that would 'disappear' if there were no T1 drops would be staggering. In fact this would be a double hit to mineral prices because not only would we loose the minerals from the reprocessed mods but we would also need huge amounts of minerals to build those same T1 mods to sell on the market, build into T2, etc.
3) It does hurt the miners. However the huge mineral loss from no more T1 loot would force tons of people into doing one of the single most boring activities in this game, shooting a rock with lasers. (The single most boring is shooting ice with lasers.) It's not like there aren't already macro programs out there that plenty of miners already use to make money while they are at work or sleeping, etc.
Whilst we're on the subject of naive statements, this is also wrong. As witnessed with the trit prices changes when shuttles were changed, miners can and will respond with considerable speed to mineral prices changes. You would not believe the number of people who have mining skills but only do so when the market favours them. It's about time that investment was rewarded properly.
I also object to your statement that you are immediately assuming that a majority of miners are macro users. This is just pure unsubstantiated biased speculation. You're also alleging that mining is boring, that this change forces people to go into mining, which is complete rubbish.
Mining can be quite dull, or interesting, depending on how you do it and where and with whom, and you need not mine at all, just buy your minerals from someone who enjoys being good at mining. This sets aside the various plans under discussion to make mining more interesting that CCP have already taken an interest in.
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