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Mineral Construction, how does it work?
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CaptainFalcon07
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
#1 - 2012-10-01 00:03:14 UTC  |  Edited by: CaptainFalcon07
A vast majority of items are produced from only minerals within this game, but how does this work?

How could you make Nuclear or Depleted Uranium ammo with just the minerals and not including any radioactive elements?

Tritanium is the most commonly used mineral in the entire game, yet it is highly volatile and unstable at standard conditions which stations typically have to suit human living requirements.

How does a ship composed majority of tritanium be able withstand mini-nuclear and antimattar explosions and being heating to over 6000 degrees Celsius by lasers?
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#2 - 2012-10-01 00:08:39 UTC
Perhaps the more insignificant amount of goods such as radioactive elements may be sooo abundant, you wouldn't use ISK for their purchase. And the game just skips that fluff.
Gorn Arming
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-10-01 00:11:29 UTC
In the end it all comes down to SQL queries.
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#4 - 2012-10-01 00:12:59 UTC
Because of LEGOs.

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Nostradamouse Riraille
S.M.U.G.G.L.E.
#5 - 2012-10-01 00:15:20 UTC
Space Magic :D!
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#6 - 2012-10-01 00:21:56 UTC
I don't know… “isogen” sounds rather radioactive to me…
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#7 - 2012-10-01 00:24:23 UTC
A wizard did it.

Or probably the better answer. Bellisario's Maxim

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellisariosMaxim

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-10-01 00:25:00 UTC
Tippia wrote:
I don't know… “isogen” sounds rather radioactive to me…


I heard that Zydrine used to be known as "Astroglide"

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Alexa Coates
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-10-01 01:17:36 UTC
because alchemy.

That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers.
stoicfaux
#10 - 2012-10-01 01:29:12 UTC
OP needs to stay away from Minecraft. Because, you know, obsidian is uber.


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CaptainFalcon07
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
#11 - 2012-10-01 01:45:18 UTC
"You require more minerals."
Touval Lysander
Zero Wine
#12 - 2012-10-01 02:27:35 UTC
CaptainFalcon07 wrote:
A vast majority of items are produced from only minerals within this game, but how does this work?

How could you make Nuclear or Depleted Uranium ammo with just the minerals and not including any radioactive elements?

Tritanium is the most commonly used mineral in the entire game, yet it is highly volatile and unstable at standard conditions which stations typically have to suit human living requirements.

How does a ship composed majority of tritanium be able withstand mini-nuclear and antimattar explosions and being heating to over 6000 degrees Celsius by lasers?

I heard that anything with MEGA in it is pretty serious ****. Particularly when it's used by the ton.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Zhade Lezte
#13 - 2012-10-01 03:20:44 UTC
Realism? In MY Eve?
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#14 - 2012-10-01 03:50:36 UTC
I suspect the simplest answer might be better realized by understanding that the seemingly simple minerals in the game may in fact be far more complex than they apear to be. Perhaps tritanium is as abundent and abuntently used because its extremely complex chemical and physical properties allow it to be so useful. It could also be possible that what ever else might be needed to construct something that would, according to a blueprint, only require minerals may be already covered (i.e. doesn't repuire mining because it might be supllied free of charge) and does not warrent mentioning in the manufacturing process.

Ofc, it is also a game, and as such will have a number of intentional design flaws and inconsistancies put in place as a compromise between realism and convenient gameplay mechanics. Games like Eve sometimes must have naturally unrealistic elements for it to make sense as a game. This may very well be one of those...

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-10-01 05:08:35 UTC
Vespene gas, one of the most abundant compounds in the eve universe can be super heated and added to certain minerals to get other elements/compounds.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2012-10-01 05:09:09 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
Vespene gas, one of the most abundant compounds in the eve universe can be super heated and added to certain minerals to get other elements/compounds.


We require more vespene gas!

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-10-01 05:17:51 UTC
actually we don't. vespene gas is so abundant and toxic it was mined off many planets in the system, the supply outweighs demand so much that it's given free instead of disposing it.
scientist estimate at current usage the eve universe has over 400 years worth of vespene gas to use before it starts running low.
sYnc Vir
Wolfsbrigade
Ghost Legion.
#18 - 2012-10-01 06:58:49 UTC
took you 100m skill points to become bittervet?

Psh, did it in 22m

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CaptainFalcon07
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
#19 - 2012-10-01 07:16:26 UTC
sYnc Vir wrote:
took you 100m skill points to become bittervet?

Psh, did it in 22m


Huh?
Graic Gabtar
The Lemon Party
#20 - 2012-10-01 10:02:48 UTC
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