Naifas Anaconda said:
You're so wrong... sweat is one of the few activities ingame where you are garanteed to make profit.
I beg to differ, Sweat Gathering is
NOT guaranteed to make you profit, because it all depends on
HOW you gather it....
If I heal myself, shoot the mob and focus myself using my own ME (not to count in the decay of using the chips) and whether I use armor or not, Im still guaranteed to LOSE, why? Because the sweat I gather is not for sale, I use it for personal use and for those who use Mf, they know that most of the peds invested in ME will go back to the loot pool, since making any sort of profit using Mf is practically impossible....
I think it all comes down to how you gather it, while I enjoy sweating by myself, there are those who sweat in bigger group (avoid decay, healing, killing it, etc) and those are the kind of people that usually end up profiting...
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Akruz: while I dont necessarily agree with your idea, I'll try to be a bit contructive. I understand how hard gathering sweat is and how unrewarding it can be, Im a depositor and there is no way I could possibly fund my gameplay with sweat... however, it all comes down to your gameplay, the time investing on gathering sweat its to little for the reward you reap in the end, in my eyes, for two hours working Irl I could just buy enough sweat to last me a week, while in two hours sweat time I could get enough sweat to last me for 3 hours max, I personally sweat for the skills, I think you need to question whats more important for you, the time you spend sweating for profit, or the time you spend sweating for fun. While creating some sort of "union" sounds all nice and dandy for sweat gatherers, its something that has been tried before but failed many times.
I suggest perhaps networking with people that use Mf or buy sweat, come up with a current price/fixed price maybe and sell it to him/her, there are many people out there who enjoy having a steady supplier instead of buying it in public.. or perhaps if your part of a society, sell to your soc mates for what you believe its a reasonable price. There are those who sweat their own for personal use, but there is still many more who dont like doing the dirty work and just buy it> these are the people you should target.
Like a few others said before, sweating should not be considered work, its merely a secondary activity (for some primary) in order to achieve some sort of "income" to continue their gameplay, just the same way you have fruit and dung pickers, and this takes a bit more effort imo.
I suggest playing for fun instead of trying to make a way to profit ingame, its too time consuming to make any sort of tangible profit, I sweat for fun, for the supporting skills to mindforce, and from that standpoint, it doesnt seem fair to me, for those who use ME, for the sweat prices to rise, because its already expensive as it is, it's already "useless" and we, who use Mindforce, have to deposit enough already with the current sweat prices.
Put yourself in the shoes of your buyers, before trying to control and manipulate the market. My
P.S. I didnt cast my vote, because there is no "I sweat my own for personal use I am not a buyer" choice.