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CCP Recurve is back to tell us about the development of price indices. Check out his latest blog right here and share your market speculations right here in the comment thread as always.

Still waiting for those dev blogs that tell us whether or not it's worth caring about that any more.

There's an (unlikely) possibility that Gallente Starbase production drops in favour of the other races, but Ice isn't broken down by class, so I don't think we'll really know the answer with the current data resources.

Thank you for asking a question about something you didn't know about, instead of making a statement based on assumptions. That's actually the thing I find most interesting about this dev blog post.
Awesome stuff.

Where's the Zulu blog?

EDIT: No disrespect to CCP Guard, who is actually producing timely and constructive information filled Dev Blogs. One of your co-workers has managed not so much to **** [really I can not say a euphemism for micturation?] off, but rather has created a new level of apathy amongst players that makes them not wish to log in. This, I would guess also has a large market impact. When EVE loses its players or the stream of ships getting blown to bits recedes, that too has a market impact.

Also, check out those Oxygen Isotope prices. Will be interesting to see what types of data the recent price spike and hoarding is causing with respect to CCP's index data.

CCP Zulu =/= CCP Recurve
Therefore, they may both write different devblogs simultaneously.

Is that really so hard to understand?

Interesting enough, but I too would rather get the QEN, even without the pretty pictures and fancy typography.

Straight text and images (for the graphs) would do fine.

Perhaps the negative correlation is a function of opportunity cost, time spent mining ice vrs time spent running around doing PI.

It would seem that those who run a POS would have the ability to both mine ice and do significant amounts of PI. When ice is cheap, time is better spent on PI and vice versa. Since time of the POS owner is the truly only limited resource, it makes sense, from their perspective, to spend time where it reduces material cost the most.

Unlike the real world, for a POS owner, short term variable cost is not labor, it is where labor is spent, their own labor. From the perspective of the POS owner, traditional fixed costs, materials, is their short term variable cost, so they likely switch to producing whatever has the highest cost on the market. Their labor, how much time they are going to spend playing Eve is instead what is realtivly fixed long term.

P.S. Notice the graph also shows some compression of the behavior. If this will continue or not, who knows.

It's good to see that the information flow is being maintained. Yes we're all waiting for The Big DevBlog, but "little" stuff like this is important too.