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First Star Wolf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-07-11 07:03:35 UTC  |  Edited by: First Star Wolf
So some one from ccp posted a pic on twitter and some one buys up all the t2 med rails in jita:
http://evenews24.com/2013/07/11/jester-trek-riding-the-rails/


and discution in general about a rail buff: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=257720&find=unread


Big investment from some one in jita to buy all that up, are the prices gong to jump up if there is a buff will the ferox jump up as well as a rail buff would make it a more viable ship
arabella blood
Keyboard Jihad
#2 - 2013-07-11 07:13:18 UTC
LOL, would be interesting to see how it will turn out for him :)
Can the guy that bought all the rails post a report please?

Troll for hire. Cheap prices.

Takarina
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-07-11 18:52:25 UTC
yes, let me hoard a bunch of easily producible items. what could possibly go wrong?
Tydeth Gilitae
Magewright Artificers
#4 - 2013-07-11 19:51:16 UTC
To be fair, if the buff is significant enough to make Medium Rails increase in demand and therefore price, he could very well make a decent profit off of his speculative trading. The potential flaw I can see in his plan would be the timing, as the change hasn't even hit the testing server yet, and as such people can produce enough railguns to flood out the market and preempt a spike in demand.
Aliventi
Rattini Tribe
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#5 - 2013-07-11 20:09:08 UTC
I think the dates being floated around is Aug 20th or 27th for Odyssey 1.1. The tournament ships Dev Blog said based upon their release schedule they can get the ships out about 3 weeks after the end of the tournament. That is a lot of time for people to start producing.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#6 - 2013-07-12 06:54:19 UTC
Confirming I made good ISKies out of tech 2 plates when they were first buffed. It's possible to make ISK out of this sort of thing.

You just want to avoid buying everything, and instead buy only the cheaper products. Then use various tricks to get people to unload their stack and sell you more at the lower prices (e.g. post two sell orders for 1 of the item in dangerous lowsec stations close to a hub, that's at a 5-10% undercut of hub price, wait for someone to 0.01 ISK you, then drop second lowsec order another 5%, then let them 0.01 ISK you again, then buy the entire stock of the competitior in the hub).

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Takarina
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-07-14 03:57:40 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
Confirming I made good ISKies out of tech 2 plates when they were first buffed. It's possible to make ISK out of this sort of thing.


Except they aren't buffed yet and probably won't be for a very long time and in the meantime everyone else is going to be producing them up the gazoo.
Joan Greywind
The Lazy Crabs
#8 - 2013-07-14 05:22:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Joan Greywind
Does buffed mean increase in production cost? because that is the only thing that matters. Yes there could a small discrepancy in supply and demand for a short while, but it will get eradicated very quickly. I don't care if it becomes the most op weapon in all of EVE, It won't sell for much higher than it's production cost, it is called perfectly elastic supply, YAY.

It is only a good investment if production costs change also, which may happen, but betting on it blindly is as good as playing the roulette.
arabella blood
Keyboard Jihad
#9 - 2013-07-14 05:45:54 UTC
Joan Greywind wrote:
Does buffed mean increase in production cost? because that is the only thing that matters. Yes there could a small discrepancy in supply and demand for a short while, but it will get eradicated very quickly. I don't care if it becomes the most op weapon in all of EVE, It won't sell for much higher than it's production cost, it is called perfectly elastic supply, YAY.

It is only a good investment if production costs change also, which may happen, but betting on it blindly is as good as playing the roulette.


I think he has a good chance for medium profits if he dumps the stack the first day the buff is realeased. After all "speculation trading" has risks, this is one of them.

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Robert Morningstar
Morningstar Excavations LTD
Business Alliance of Manufacturers and Miners
#10 - 2013-07-16 20:59:57 UTC
First Star Wolf wrote:
So some one from ccp posted a pic on twitter and some one buys up all the t2 med rails in jita:
http://evenews24.com/2013/07/11/jester-trek-riding-the-rails/


and discution in general about a rail buff: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=257720&find=unread


Big investment from some one in jita to buy all that up, are the prices gong to jump up if there is a buff will the ferox jump up as well as a rail buff would make it a more viable ship




I wonder how much of that is change to the rail and how much is based on the ccp only implants he has?

Would be funny if it was all implant related
First Star Wolf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2013-07-18 16:56:38 UTC