Market Discussions

... predicts hilarious gatecamps videos as some people try to fly their shiny new ships through Pure Blind and into Empire....

Well not necessarily, I would assume that of those vast amounts of accumulated LP's, only a tiny fraction is through the Sanctuary Corporation. As far as I know LP's are corporation specific. People will definately use most of those accumulated LP's in highsec to get these new shiny ships and this may perhaps lead to a small price spike in other (i.e. not Stratios or Asteros) SOE prices.

This is not to say that, I dont believe that the value of the Stratios and Astero will show a bearish trend after the initial price spike.

Anyhow , the SOE market will be interesting to follow. I personally will not invest much into it. I like a slow, stable and steady return on my capital. I havent delved into speculating yet.

Confirming that I anticipated a price increase in non-Stratios SoE LP items, and have been stockpiling.

A markup of 50% means that ships will be 33% cheaper in Pure Blind. You should update the OP.

Ex: $1.00 w/ 50% markup is $1.50. $1.00 is 66% of $1.50, or $1.00 is 33% cheaper than $1.50. Alternatively, a 100% markup would make ships 50% as expensive in Pure Blind than in high sec.

10/10

I expect LP prices to fall after the expansion.

Some of the reasons SoE LP were worth significantly more than the LP of other high-sec factions was their relative obscurity, the fact that many mission runners started out building Caldari standings and the low number of agents (especially after the one in Gicodel stopped handing out combat missions).

Now CCP has made a large number of players aware that SoE exist and that their LP is very valuable (by high-sec standards), the generation of Motsu farmers (with ruined SoE standings) is dying out anyways and many mission runners have built SoE standings over the past few weeks, the new agent in Lanngisi is handing out significantly (20%) higher LP payouts per mission than the Osmon agent, at the same time Lanngisi has attracted the former Osmon gank crew and thus made Osmon a "safe" choice for SoE farming, ...


I expect this prediction to be true and it will be a huge change compared to the pre-patch environment. For years SoE LP prices have been very high and mission runners have not switched to SoE because they lacked the awareness and capability to do so.

I haven't bothered with this one. The isk/LP is destined to go down, which was the only good thing about the SOE LP. Because these will be bought for LP, the value is subjective, so chances are the price will be driven down due to oversupply. I'd advise against overstocking on the ships too much, instead keeping the LP as LP and getting the ships in batches. I'm betting that the flood of these ships to the market, along with the reduced purchases of other rewards will push the isk/LP down for these ships in comparison to other items.

Yep it's kind of sad to see the SoE cash cow go. Now I need to find another low volume high margin LP store for when I'm bored enough to mission.