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gyldenglad3
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-06-29 19:10:24 UTC
Hello!

I went inactive from Eve about 2 years ago, and by that time I must for some reason have bought 1.500.000 units of Nitrogen Isotopes, and 500.000 units of Oxygen Isotopes.

They total value about 2B, and I don't remember spending that much on them. I checked the market history, and indeed I've made quite the good investment since the price gone up like 100%.

So any experts out there that can shred some light on this price hop? Less ice miners these days or what?
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#2 - 2014-06-29 21:02:08 UTC
Ice is harder to harvest now, as it spawns in fixed-amount anomalies 4 hours after depletion. It is no longer unlimited.

Resource Shakeup in Odyssey: Just don’t call it a Cataclysm
CCP Fozzie wrote:
When Odyssey is released, the current static (and massive) ice belts spread throughout space will be removed from the game, and replaced by a series of Ore Anomalies that will spawn and respawn only in systems that previously contained the aforementioned static ice belts. These belts will respawn in exactly the same system four hours after they are completed, to ensure that players from all time zones will be able to partake in ice harvesting and enjoy the spoils. The amount of ice found in these sites will be tuned to ensure that most, but not all, of the ice needs of the New Eden cluster can be provided by high security belts. At our current numbers, the maximum supply of ice from highsec (assuming that each belt is mined out completely five times a day) would provide approximately 80% of the game's ice needs, ensuring that at least some of the ice mining must be undertaken in lower security space. For context, this means that highsec will still be a large exporter of ice products, being able to generate eight times the volume of isotopes used by highsec control towers.

To counterbalance this reduction in ice supply and to provide a slightly more rapid gratification from the activity of ice harvesting, we will also be reducing the cycle time of all ice harvesters by 50%, which will result in a doubling of ice yield over time.

With the exception of some systems in the territories of the Amarr Empire, Khanid Kingdom, and Ammatar Mandate, all systems that currently contain ice belts will have at least one instance of these new Ice Anomalies. Some systems, mostly those that currently contain two or three ice belts, will contain multiple instances of the Ice Anomalies. A full list of Amarrian highsec systems that will contain these new anomalies can be found in our companion blog, so that players can determine if their home will still have ice after the patch.
Plleasure Hub
Municorn
#3 - 2014-06-29 21:02:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Plleasure Hub
gyldenglad3 wrote:
Hello!

I went inactive from Eve about 2 years ago, and by that time I must for some reason have bought 1.500.000 units of Nitrogen Isotopes, and 500.000 units of Oxygen Isotopes.

They total value about 2B, and I don't remember spending that much on them. I checked the market history, and indeed I've made quite the good investment since the price gone up like 100%.

So any experts out there that can shred some light on this price hop? Less ice miners these days or what?

I don't remember when it was, but ice mining has been completely revamped. When I was a kid, we used to be able to mine it straight from static ice belts. Now, you have to use these fancy scanning devices and mine it out of a randomly-spawned anomaly.

There is also a lot going on with the POS-related markets right now. Crius is coming out in a few weeks, which will rehaul the entire industry side of EVE. Some people are claiming that the removal of industry job slots will nerf POSes, but I call BS on that. I think there are just as many reasons, if not more, to start up your own POS these days as there used to be. The markets may already be reacting to this.

Edit: Ahh, Tau Ninja'd me!!

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