Seriously, I thought moon mining was some big lucrative enterprise. You need a POS, a good moon, mining arrays, etc. I did the calculations, and selling just base Cadmium, which is like mid level, better than like titanium and such, makes like 30,000 isk per day. Thirty thousand, due to the cost of fuel for the POS. Per mining array. Why does anyone do this garbage?! I mean, I feel like I HAVE to be missing something. These minerals are like the backbone of T2 production and yet they're near worthless? It doesn't add up to me, but I don't know where I'm going wrong. Even the basic reactions are just the two components' costs added up. It's ridiculous. Where does moon mining become even remotely profitable?

It makes absolutely no sense to me and I can't understand why ANYONE does it. Does anyone know what I'm missing, if anything?

No its not, incursions are lucrative.
That and pro trading skills.

Only a couple moon materials are worth mining, but i agree, its a pretty broken mechanic.

I'm sorry that you have never had access to a technetium moon.

But thanks for calling me a tool.

I only have a wallet+assets value of just under 1.5 trillion isk.

Sorry for being such a tool.

Not trying to bug out, or call you a liar. I just find that highly unlikely. That would make you the richest person in eve (unless im thinking assets weren't in the poll, and it was just liquid isk).
Selene D'Celeste is the richest person in the game, and He only has 1.3tril.

I don't believe selene is the richest(Maybe in liquid isk), Entity more than likely still and always has been. Mainly because he has a megathron federate issue, which is probably 300bil+ since it is the only one in the game, ever. He also has 2 Silver Magnates, 1 Raven state Issue, 2 tempest tribal issue, and 2 geddon imperial issue. All of these ships together is over 1 tril easy.

Unless... he is Selenne, Chribba, or Entity

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Don't be dumb, he obviously don't even know what technetium is.

Srsly though, you don't have 1.5tril. Over exaggeration is bad, mmmk?

This post was edited by reaver19 on Oct 8 2011 08:14am

If we are talking assets, some people in this game own far over 3 trillion. You are forgetting that t2 bpos can be worth a lot. If i had to value just the ship t2 bpos i own (hulk, manticore, hound, jaguar, vagabond, nemesis, scimitar and sabre) i'm sitting on over 450 bil isk at the lowest, and considering these are mostly minmattar ships it'z probably much more. Hulk in itself is worth over 150 bil alone. Add to that 9 t2 module bpos, and over 200 bil in ships and we're nearing the trillion. Add to that the officer modules i own, the t1 bpos for battleships, the pos tower network i own, etc i am over 1.5 tril isk worth in assets and liquid isk.

And Selene... Lol @ Selene.

Ha! I'm aware SOME moons are okay, it doesn't explain the fact that nearly every moon with harvest-able material has mining arrays on it. The fact that you just had to come in here and flop around your e-peen makes you look pretty tooly.

At any rate, I figured that most people don't just mine the minerals and sell them, but take the minerals and react them all the way to final product. This leaves anything that isn't final product worth close to nothing. At least, that's how I speculate it. If you take the minerals and work them allllll the way to final product, it might be worth doing.

is this game only about making money ?

LMAO, I can't imagine anyone moon mining for fun!