Market Discussions

Well, at the moment in Jita Zydrine prices are now at sell-1900 buy-1700.

Some people REALLY have too much money!

It's cool that you guys play the same game like everyone else... only not. And seem to have fun doing so.

Exactly, zydrine was speculation. It will hit nocxium much harder:

|| Mineral || Ore% || Loot% || Drone Compounds% ||
||-----------||------||-------||------------------||
|| Tritanium || 46% || 43% || 11% ||
|| Pyerite || 29% || 60% || 10% ||
|| Mexallon || 30% || 59% || 11% ||
|| Isogen || 21% || 56% || 23% ||
|| Nocxium || 18% || 32% || 51% ||
|| Zydrine || 43% || 18% || 40% ||
|| Megacyte || 44% || 39% || 16% ||
|| Morphite || 77% || 1% || 22% ||

http://www.eve-guides.com/Ore/alloys.php should give you a clear picture.

the question isnt if minerals gonna go up, because it will. question is how many hidden stacks is there in someones hangar and how much will the speculation effect the prices(both long and short term).

right now mega and zyd speculators is very vocal, zyd have been alrdy "bursted once" , tho ive no doubt prices will go up again as its a lot of speculators working with it atm. the question is more like, will the speculators touch the other minerals aswell?

Ive personally made 3-4b (I only have 10b liquid to speculate with atm) so far on the zyd and mega, tho I sold myself out and bought 7b of nocx...(so there you got my agenda). I also got a nice stash of isogen, but Im got the feeling market might be able to adjust itself and compensate for the iso loss(by mining more/looting more) on that one.

I am not an industrialist, but as much as I have seen, zydrine consumption in ships usually is very low. And yes, 40% is low for more than 100% price increase during the last days. Those who bought it earlier are now just encouraging to buy their stockpile out.

More to the landscape than just minerals and money is changing. This is hard to quantify, or even be 100% sure as to the direction things will go, so use salt to taste.

Crimewatch and Wardec changes are going to lead to increased PVP in high sec. This is a pure speculation on my part based on little more than gut feeling. As the systems become more "fair", more people will be willing to participate. Now of course this is Eve and it may be short order before some amusable mechanic is discovered and all my assumptions are worth zip. If my gut is right, more ships will be blowing up and more people will be happy to let them blow up, even their own.

A second thing not much yet discussed is shield booster charges, also mentioned as a coming change but so far not discussed, we don't have enough details. These things are going to use up something, and I am going to guess, based on the only similar item in the game, cap boosters, that these new charges will consume minerals. How popular they are in high sec is debatable as it applies to crimewatch and the new wardec system, but I suspect they'll make an impact on nullsec and lowsec, and consume more minerals.

If these charges are successful and popular with players, I'd not be surprised to see the new mechanic expanded into other types of modules.

Edit - " amusable mechanic " is a typo overlooked by the spell checker. It is supposed to read "abuseable mechanic", since there is no word "abuseable" I suppose I can't fault the spell checker too much. Amusable seems appropriate however, so left as is.

To quote a movie:
"Bulls make money, Bears make money, pigs get eaten."

I ordered my "I Love Nocx" t-shirt from CCP right after the Dr. E flatly refused to comment about Drone Alloys, several times -- with a "cat that ate the canary" grin on his face the whole time.

Grab a few cold ones and enjoy the ride !

Mook

Says the blowhard who called for 13k zyd.

So you say.



And yes, I've got isk invested. No doubt a "token" amount to someone who claims to have a third of a trillion invested, but it's there. Don't get me wrong, I'd be thrilled if your prediction were right. I just very much doubt it is.