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Ore Imbalance

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Doddy
Excidium.
#161 - 2012-09-08 13:49:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Doddy
double post
Pipa Porto
#162 - 2012-09-08 14:14:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Pipa Porto
Zifrian wrote:
Pipa Porto wrote:
Zifrian wrote:
On reply 1 - We have been hidden belts in null/wh's for years now. So I find little in that argument for why prices are out of whack. That seems to be coming from people that want to blame null miners for their own loss in profit while they reap the rewards of the new price structure in high sec.


More people are doing it. It's not the individual that matters; collectively, people mining in Nullsec are producing more Nullsec ore than they used to. That leads to prices dropping. My guess is that this is because there has been an increase in the number of people mining in Nullsec (as opposed to an increase in the output of each person).

There is no "new price structure," there's just been a demographic change. Less (or the same) HS miners and More Nullsec miners.

I would agree with this if I saw prices slowly changing over time. However, we had a dramatic price shift all in the last few months. I'm not convinced that's due to more people mining in null/wh's because we would have seen this happen over several years. Additionally, if this were true, Arkonor would also be tanking in price but it's not. That to me is an indication that the refining values for the ores compared to their availability are not balanced in the way the game was created.


The reason it didn't change over time is that, until this past spring, miners were not the primary producers of high end minerals, so demographic changes among them were masked.

Oh, and all the ores are available in effectively unlimited amounts.

EvE: Everyone vs Everyone

-RubyPorto

Elinarien
Doomheim
#163 - 2012-09-08 18:46:09 UTC
So, given the current state of play, the answer is for the market to generate significant amounts of additional high-sec ores. That of course means more people mining in high-sec. Only way that demand is going to be satisfied and so prices fall.

However.. given this game's obsession with strangling the supply through hulkageddon etc I wouldn't bet on prices falling just yet.
Pipa Porto
#164 - 2012-09-08 20:15:25 UTC
Elinarien wrote:
So, given the current state of play, the answer is for the market to generate significant amounts of additional high-sec ores. That of course means more people mining in high-sec. Only way that demand is going to be satisfied and so prices fall.

However.. given this game's obsession with strangling the supply through hulkageddon etc I wouldn't bet on prices falling just yet.


You forgot about CCP's fixing the miners up with a new set of improved nappies.

EvE: Everyone vs Everyone

-RubyPorto

Mortimer Civeri
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#165 - 2012-09-08 20:42:08 UTC
Elinarien wrote:
So, given the current state of play, the answer is for the market to generate significant amounts of additional high-sec ores. That of course means more people mining in high-sec. Only way that demand is going to be satisfied and so prices fall.

However.. given this game's obsession with strangling the supply through hulkageddon etc I wouldn't bet on prices falling just yet.

Hulkageddon was never that big of an issue to begin with, and with the Retriever and Mackinaw, smart miners will move to quiet, non station systems to mine

"I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low." Calvin

Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#166 - 2012-09-09 01:11:34 UTC
Mortimer Civeri wrote:
Elinarien wrote:
So, given the current state of play, the answer is for the market to generate significant amounts of additional high-sec ores. That of course means more people mining in high-sec. Only way that demand is going to be satisfied and so prices fall.

However.. given this game's obsession with strangling the supply through hulkageddon etc I wouldn't bet on prices falling just yet.

Hulkageddon was never that big of an issue to begin with, and with the Retriever and Mackinaw, smart miners will move to quiet, non station systems to mine


Stationless system only mean lower yield over time as you have more total hauling to do. You can find MANY quiet system with a station in them. Just use it as temporary storage is you have ****** standings untill you want to haul all back to market/refining station.
serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#167 - 2012-09-09 01:56:52 UTC  |  Edited by: serras bang
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec and to try boosting the proffit from hi sec mining a lil drop the refining rate of hi sec ores by 10%
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#168 - 2012-09-09 01:58:56 UTC
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?
serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#169 - 2012-09-09 01:59:30 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?


you forget about what you get from refining omber and kernite
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#170 - 2012-09-09 02:04:13 UTC
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?


you forget about what you get from refining omber and kernite


You mean the little isogen? Did you check the price of pyerite? The only thing beating scordite right now is Akronor and Mercoxit. Those 2 require operation in null sec with the already covered extra work required to mine it. The is a reason nobody mines in low sec and it's probably not gonna change anytime soon.
serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#171 - 2012-09-09 02:09:11 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?


you forget about what you get from refining omber and kernite


You mean the little isogen? Did you check the price of pyerite? The only thing beating scordite right now is Akronor and Mercoxit. Those 2 require operation in null sec with the already covered extra work required to mine it. The is a reason nobody mines in low sec and it's probably not gonna change anytime soon.


unless something has changed that i aint quite aware of omber and kernit is the only 2 high sec ore that contain any isogen kernite is also the ore that holds the most of mex of any ore in the game.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#172 - 2012-09-09 02:11:40 UTC
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?


you forget about what you get from refining omber and kernite


You mean the little isogen? Did you check the price of pyerite? The only thing beating scordite right now is Akronor and Mercoxit. Those 2 require operation in null sec with the already covered extra work required to mine it. The is a reason nobody mines in low sec and it's probably not gonna change anytime soon.


unless something has changed that i aint quite aware of omber and kernit is the only 2 high sec ore that contain any isogen kernite is also the ore that holds the most of mex of any ore in the game.


And the price of those minerals are not high enough to compensate for the crazy big amount of pyerite you get from scordite. Until the price stabilise after the barge buff and the liquidation of already built up stock (who know how long that will take, you have to check market price for which ore to mine. Currently, in high sec, it's scordite.
Herr Hammer Draken
#173 - 2012-09-09 06:03:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Herr Hammer Draken
It is my belief that CCP nerfed the drone poo because when they do the data dump every day at down time they found that players were generating more minerals from drone poo than they were from mining. That was not what they wanted from the game as miners were supposed to have a reason to exist and have a career. It is in the game plan for eve.
They could determine the amount of minerals generated by mining and used in construction on a daily basis in eve.

Once the source of minerals ended from drone poo then they had to be made up by miners. Now IMO it is the ratio of the null sec minerals compared to the high sec mineral that went askew after the drone poo removal. Perhaps not because of overmining of null ores. But because of under mining of high sec ores. Not enough was getting mined to meet the demand and therefore the excess null minerals began to pile up.

Human nature being what it is the majority of active miners want to mine that which makes the most money. Or mine ice. It was not considered cool to mine trit or scordite. You can see it here in this thread first hand. The op is of a mind that he will never stoop so low as to move to high sec to mine valuable ores. Because he is stuburn and wants the most valuable ores to be the ones he is mining because they are most expensive. Thus he should be rich. That is the basis of his argument. He will not go and mine that which currently pays well to mine. It is that easy but no will not do it.

Question how many others are of that same opinion? And how many are mining ice? How high does the value of mining trit and scordite have to go before miners decide to mine it enmass? And that is why the ratio is out of whack.
I believe before the drone poo nerf more than 1/2 of these minerals came from drone poo and the miners have not yet made up that slack. I can tell because it is hard to find those minerals or enough of those minerals to build anything. So the cost goes up on them. I am slowed up in my construction because of lack of trit and pyrite. The rest I can get enough of or too much of. I am often mining my own trit and pyrite which slows down my construction to the speed at which I can mine.

Point is and I think CCP is also waiting for it, is for miners to take it upon themselves to mine enough of these ores to serve the market place. It is a sure bet that the op will never do this no matter high how trit goes. He will just complain about it louder and louder as the costs of trit and pyrite climbs. I can see the devs at CCP actually chuckling to themselves about the issue as they have the raw data on the daily data dumps.

Now to the point of the real issue. Because of the ratios of these ores and how they are used in construction, EVE needs 20 active high sec miners for every null sec miner to have a balanced amount of these ores on the market. I bet the real ratio is more like 8 to 1 in eve right now. We need to double the number of miners in high sec or 1/2 the number in null to get to the right ratio. The market price is suposed to convince miners to follow the money. But the op prefers to complain about it rather than move to where the money is. So how is CCP going to convince null sec miners to move to high sec? Just like CCP is going to convince high sec players to move to null right? We already see that players go where they think they belong because of preconcieved bias.

Let me bottom line it. You can not just mine the ore you want to and expect someone to pay you top dollar for it. That is not realistc. Just like a builder can not just build a crap ton of expensive stuff and dump it on the market and expect everyone to buy it all up. If the players stop buying it they stop and you sell at a loss. It works that way for the builders AND it works that way for the miner. You are not entitled to top dollar just because it is expensive ore you are mining. You only get to sell it for what the market is willing to pay for it. If you do not like it go find ore that is in demand. It is not that hard or difficult to do. But oh wait lets cry to CCP to fix it for us. Man ok set that precedent now then the builders get to complain and get CCP to protect their income as well. How stupid is this that we can even consider this as a valid complaint.

Herr Hammer Draken "The Amarr Prophet"

serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#174 - 2012-09-09 12:33:01 UTC
Herr Hammer Draken wrote:
It is my belief that CCP nerfed the drone poo because when they do the data dump every day at down time they found that players were generating more minerals from drone poo than they were from mining. That was not what they wanted from the game as miners were supposed to have a reason to exist and have a career. It is in the game plan for eve.
They could determine the amount of minerals generated by mining and used in construction on a daily basis in eve.

Once the source of minerals ended from drone poo then they had to be made up by miners. Now IMO it is the ratio of the null sec minerals compared to the high sec mineral that went askew after the drone poo removal. Perhaps not because of overmining of null ores. But because of under mining of high sec ores. Not enough was getting mined to meet the demand and therefore the excess null minerals began to pile up.

Human nature being what it is the majority of active miners want to mine that which makes the most money. Or mine ice. It was not considered cool to mine trit or scordite. You can see it here in this thread first hand. The op is of a mind that he will never stoop so low as to move to high sec to mine valuable ores. Because he is stuburn and wants the most valuable ores to be the ones he is mining because they are most expensive. Thus he should be rich. That is the basis of his argument. He will not go and mine that which currently pays well to mine. It is that easy but no will not do it.

Question how many others are of that same opinion? And how many are mining ice? How high does the value of mining trit and scordite have to go before miners decide to mine it enmass? And that is why the ratio is out of whack.
I believe before the drone poo nerf more than 1/2 of these minerals came from drone poo and the miners have not yet made up that slack. I can tell because it is hard to find those minerals or enough of those minerals to build anything. So the cost goes up on them. I am slowed up in my construction because of lack of trit and pyrite. The rest I can get enough of or too much of. I am often mining my own trit and pyrite which slows down my construction to the speed at which I can mine.

Point is and I think CCP is also waiting for it, is for miners to take it upon themselves to mine enough of these ores to serve the market place. It is a sure bet that the op will never do this no matter high how trit goes. He will just complain about it louder and louder as the costs of trit and pyrite climbs. I can see the devs at CCP actually chuckling to themselves about the issue as they have the raw data on the daily data dumps.

Now to the point of the real issue. Because of the ratios of these ores and how they are used in construction, EVE needs 20 active high sec miners for every null sec miner to have a balanced amount of these ores on the market. I bet the real ratio is more like 8 to 1 in eve right now. We need to double the number of miners in high sec or 1/2 the number in null to get to the right ratio. The market price is suposed to convince miners to follow the money. But the op prefers to complain about it rather than move to where the money is. So how is CCP going to convince null sec miners to move to high sec? Just like CCP is going to convince high sec players to move to null right? We already see that players go where they think they belong because of preconcieved bias.

Let me bottom line it. You can not just mine the ore you want to and expect someone to pay you top dollar for it. That is not realistc. Just like a builder can not just build a crap ton of expensive stuff and dump it on the market and expect everyone to buy it all up. If the players stop buying it they stop and you sell at a loss. It works that way for the builders AND it works that way for the miner. You are not entitled to top dollar just because it is expensive ore you are mining. You only get to sell it for what the market is willing to pay for it. If you do not like it go find ore that is in demand. It is not that hard or difficult to do. But oh wait lets cry to CCP to fix it for us. Man ok set that precedent now then the builders get to complain and get CCP to protect their income as well. How stupid is this that we can even consider this as a valid complaint.


i gotta say last time i mined as a test of my new ret my hourly income from mining had dropped to 15 mill or less. only a little while ago was i getting closer to 30 mill
Celgar Thurn
Department 10
#175 - 2012-09-09 15:23:29 UTC
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
i got an idea it would also get more miners into low sec when coupled with other ideas i got.

remove both omber and kernite from hi sec and place them in low sec


Scordite is worth more than both omber and Kernite. So is pyro and plag. You think people would go through the extra trouble of low sec for lesser profit?


you forget about what you get from refining omber and kernite


You mean the little isogen? Did you check the price of pyerite? The only thing beating scordite right now is Akronor and Mercoxit. Those 2 require operation in null sec with the already covered extra work required to mine it. The is a reason nobody mines in low sec and it's probably not gonna change anytime soon.


unless something has changed that i aint quite aware of omber and kernit is the only 2 high sec ore that contain any isogen kernite is also the ore that holds the most of mex of any ore in the game.


In terms of weight to return Plagioclase gives you more Mexallon than Kernite. The main use for Kernite is to complete level four storyline missions. Other than for that use it's way to heavy & slow to mine and haul so I would generally advise not mining Kernite.

Omber does have Isogen in it and I do mine that for Isogen though. Smile
Celgar Thurn
Department 10
#176 - 2012-09-09 15:37:14 UTC
Herr Hammer Draken wrote:
You only get to sell it for what the market is willing to pay for it.


You said it. And I totally agree with you. CCP wanted to make mining a viable career choice and atm it is just that.
serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#177 - 2012-09-09 15:44:31 UTC  |  Edited by: serras bang
Celgar Thurn wrote:
i

In terms of weight to return Plagioclase gives you more Mexallon than Kernite. The main use for Kernite is to complete level four storyline missions. Other than for that use it's way to heavy & slow to mine and haul so I would generally advise not mining Kernite.

Omber does have Isogen in it and I do mine that for Isogen though. Smile



so whats your thought on that idea as far as both the market gose and trying to get people into low sec seing you obviosly do mine it and notice the impact it may have
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#178 - 2012-09-09 17:07:40 UTC
serras bang wrote:
Celgar Thurn wrote:
i

In terms of weight to return Plagioclase gives you more Mexallon than Kernite. The main use for Kernite is to complete level four storyline missions. Other than for that use it's way to heavy & slow to mine and haul so I would generally advise not mining Kernite.

Omber does have Isogen in it and I do mine that for Isogen though. Smile



so whats your thought on that idea as far as both the market gose and trying to get people into low sec seing you obviosly do mine it and notice the impact it may have


Still useless as long as the market currently hold as it is. Unless the price of Isogen start going up really high, moving omber and kernite to low sec will make no difference.
Barakach
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#179 - 2012-09-09 17:42:10 UTC
Revolution Rising wrote:


So is the same for ships, however I think you'll find that CCP considers blowing ships up an isk sink.

Nice going dumbass.


No, they consider it an ISK faucet, yay insurance.

ISK can ONLY be destroyed by NPCs. This is done via taxation, fees, services, or seeded items that can be purchased.
serras bang
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#180 - 2012-09-09 18:25:42 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
serras bang wrote:
Celgar Thurn wrote:
i

In terms of weight to return Plagioclase gives you more Mexallon than Kernite. The main use for Kernite is to complete level four storyline missions. Other than for that use it's way to heavy & slow to mine and haul so I would generally advise not mining Kernite.

Omber does have Isogen in it and I do mine that for Isogen though. Smile



so whats your thought on that idea as far as both the market gose and trying to get people into low sec seing you obviosly do mine it and notice the impact it may have


Still useless as long as the market currently hold as it is. Unless the price of Isogen start going up really high, moving omber and kernite to low sec will make no difference.


but if you cant find isogen in hi cept from missions the price should infact start to rise.