Market Discussions

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Ammatar Mandate, aka Derelik.

Berta is the closest the region has to a hub, due to it being the HS gateway to Curse. Sendaya would be its Low counterpart (arguably). Most of the rest of the region struggles due to Rens being so close, and are primarily mission hubs anyway.

The market history graph / data is only available on a regional basis.

It would provide a way to cross-check the "sell total" numbers. Is Jita really that big? Is Amarr really that small? Is there some other region which moves a lot of product ISK per day?

Umm yes I did & its what I meant. Amarr proper (the system) would be the HUB best situated for all Amarr space
so far unless people start congealing around some other mission HUBs say closer to Ohide?

This is how Hex became a trade Hub, it was decided in here to make it one.

I'm making an alt that can fly T2 industrials and I was thinking about using the cloaky one to do exactly what you're talking about. If not at one central location then at several. Having lived in low sec I know that it's hard to find what you want to buy and even when you do it's usually badly overpriced. Or at least that's how it was when I lived there. There's probably profit to be made by hauling things there to sell instead of Jita or whatever.

I too had hoped to create sort of a pirate jita. I had hoped to use a decent system along a lowsec pipeline next to a highsec island to produce mass quantities next store and hull it to the pipeline system deep in lowsec. I think leaving it lawless would work just fine, I wouldn't bother with trying to hull mass quanitites of something out however unless it's protected etc. I dunno, I've skills to complete before trying such endeavor.

Otherwise... we could like... band together, I'm glad I'm not the only one with crazy ideas.

If it fails it fails, I understand the daunting odds against it, but I'd like to say I tried it. Sometimes you got to touch fire to know it burns.

Forget about the nay sayers, Ive been trying to do exactly what you propose. Ive sort of put the idea on the shelf and reduced my original vision from 'creating a low sec market hub' to simply 'seeding a low sec system for profit'. The only reason ive done this is because as it was pointed out, its alot of work. Regardless, for the particular system in question I can probably boast supplying single handedly 80% of its t2 module sales and around 40% of its ammo sales.

I did have plans to scale up manufacture of ships in system, and start listing buy orders for minerals to encourage localised sales at competitive price points and margins that would see profit if I was to on sell to Jita but unfortunately I have a life outside of Eve and it was simply too big of a bite to take.

Its certainly do-able for a co-op of traders, but the 'how to' is eluding me, and ive sort of gone away from the idea. The current mechanics of a corporation doesnt really make sense for it, perhaps an alliance would though, where marketteers could enter the alliance for standings and possibly protection via pvp orientated corps within the alliance, whilst paying some sort of royalty system.

Like I said, its sort of beyond my personal capability to do something like this single handedly, but Id love to hear from other investors and small to medium sized traders who could be interested in setting something like this up.


EDIT: I should note that the test system I chose to see if this was a viable business plan was actually a fairly quiet system in the grand scheme of things but it had a few things going for it in terms of its location and geo-political situation. The test run ran for 3 months and although I dont have exact figures (because I cant seem to get EMMA to work nor find a 3rd party program that can calculate NAV/ time) I can say that it was certainly profitable and I saw alot of population growth and market turn over once the local residents realised that the system had been seeded with pretty much everything they needed for daily pew pew. Id imagine the growth will increase even more when I can get the capital to start seeding ships as well.

I've never understood the draw of Oursulaert. The only region that it borders is Genesis and it's 2 jumps away from Sinq.

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Genesis/Ourapheh
- Genesis region
- Verge Vendor, Sinq Laison and Essence are all next-door.
- Next door to the old Yulai
- Has an amazing amount of connections.

Even Renyn (next to Oursulaert) would seem to be a better location the Oursulaert.