Jayman gberdine Zinc is refined from Polymetallic Ore. If you buy a 10 point mine and value a point at $100 billion, then the resources are $1 trillion for however many units the mine holds. A 10 point Quality 1, Complexity 5 mine has 88,280,510 units of ore.
1 ore makes 1 zinc, so the "value" of zinc = $1 trillion / 88,280,510 = $11,327.53.
19,200 Zinc @ $11,327,53 = $217,488,529.01.
I sell zinc for $45.9K each and sell out every update. It takes 1,200 zinc to build one tower. Since that zinc could be sold for $55M (45.9K x 1200), the true cost for zinc to build a tower is $55M. Add in the other components and it costs $60M for the materials alone. That doesn't include the research to upgrade technology or the value of the additional time it takes to build towers.
That is why I started out by saying there is no such thing as a "fair" price in a free market.
My calculation assumed that the "value" of zinc was determined by some arbitrary exchange ratio for virts. Your calculation assumed that you could sell all of your zinc for $45.9K. You are absolutely correct that given the choice of selling zinc for $45.9K and selling Tower equipment for $13 million, that you would make more money by selling the zinc. The market is not a fixed entity. Things change after every turn. The point of these calculations is to explain the logic behind a price. There is no correct price. There is only the price you get in exchange. |