Science & Industry

Is CCP trying to make Meta 0 mods more expensive than meta 1-4 mods? When they're worse?

Why?

90% of the time they are.

http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=1353
http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=8261

Par example

Meta-0 drops from missions hardly affect the market at all. Most of it gets immediately processed by the mission runners into minerals which are much easier to sell. That's the reason why there are so few Meta-1 and Meta-2 on the market, and most often even below Meta-0 prices.

Only meta-3 and meta-4 go for decent prices on the market and the invention-business is a major reason why.

By removing meta0 from drops, it allows people who mine and manufacture to actually experience something called a "profit margin".

As the cost of meta0 mods from manufacturing rises in response to this, then the costs of meta1-4 will increase accordingly.

The profit margin on produced T1 is actually quite good already these days, especially on frigate and cruiser equipement.

meta0 are worth exactly their build materials value.

now you can make some isk by building those items since t2 producers need them to manufacture t2 items. although they may build those things themselves, this overly complicates the process so I guess they'll prefer to pay some extra. but if you sell too high they'll just do it themselves.

I buy and reprocess Meta0 stuff at the moment, because, by and large it goes for WELL below the mineral value of the items.

I did a comparison on right click sell of mission meta 0 items, and reprocess, right click sell....in most cases the meta 0 reprocess made the sell price of the item on the Trit alone.

meta 0 mods can be made from cheap NPC seeded BPO's they are not getting removed from game only removed from the loot tables as drops.

Meta 0 mods are some times more expensive than meta 1-2 mods not because of the stats(stats are always worse) but because they refine into more minerals. Anything meta 3 and below generally gets reprocessed into minerals so their price has nothing to do with stats but only with the minerals you get from reprocessing them.

Many null sec alliances produce meta 0 modules for nothing more than mineral compression. for example a 800mm meta 0 auto cannon takes up far less cargo space than the minerals you get from it after reprocessing. With a perfect researched BPO, perfect manufacturing skills, and perfect reprocessing skills there is almost 0 loss. But moving the minerals needed for building super caps deeply into null gets much easier. What would you rather do? move 8 jump freighter loads of raw minerals from Jita to deep null, or 2 loads of meta 0 modules with the same mineral content? I highly doubt the price of meta 0 mods will change noticeably once they are removed from loot tables.

In fact there may be a drop in the price of higher meta level modules as with meta 0 mods removed from loot tables there is a higher chance of the other dropping.

If you are going to speculate on the market you need to look at the items from all angles.

Don´t forget your logistics. Your stuff is not buying itself from alone, you need to spend time reprocessing and eventually you need time to transport. This cost you isk, so you have to factor it into the price.





iirc that is what they are doing

So it'll be easier to get cheap meta 1-4 modules and your meta 0 ones will only come from manufacturing.

Also meta modules all reprocess into roughly half of the minerals that meta 0 did.