Market Discussions

Inflation bruh. (maybe)

It's the mineral speculation/changes. The prices were going through the roof well before Burn Jita and Hulkageddon.

Mineral prisec jumped beacause the drone regions and loot nerf and speculations.

You got that bit wrong. While its true that Meta 0 drops have been replaced with scrap, it dies not mean that there is more trit in the system. Scrap refines for pitiful amounts of trit compared to even the smallest/ crappiest mods.

therefor Meta drops removed= less of ALL minerals including and most importantly, trit

The price of EVERYTHING in Rens is dropping thanks to all thie Idiot Market Bots that CCP can never seem to get thier hands around and toss out.

Bots. Report + Petition = I can't talk about it.

I'm sorry to point out that the majority mins coming out of the drone regions was NOT high ends as everyone seems to think bit it was the lowends. If you had one of every drone compound @ perfect refine you would get 62 nox and a whooping 7 zyd. One reason that everything has risen in price is because the trit supply from the drone regions dried up in the 'civil war' that happened, you can't build nout with out trit now can you?

On a side note, it now takes fewer hours of mining to afford a PLEX. Minerals going up, and the PLEX has been drifting down from its vid card peak.

I wonder what inferno will do. More war = less mining? More war = more ships exploding = more demand? Both of these would cause another mineral price bubble. Or will a mass shift of miners to NPC corps keep mining going and minerals plentiful enough to stave off another bubble?

Actually guys, the true problem with the market goes to Incursions.

Before I relate, lemme use a real life example. Take a government for instance. The price of everything goes up when the governments print more money, right?

So incursion farming is relate-able to this situation. There is an infinite amount of income going into the game and its going straight to the markets. Thus causing mass market inflation because people can just farm incursions to compensate for the increased prices.

Now if Incursions were to be eliminated or restricted, eventually the market would settle. Here is what would happen...
Stage 1: People would begin buying plex to sustain their toys and corporations
Stage 2: Plex prices would drop because there would be an increased flow of plex going into the market.
Stage 3: People would begin to mine and build ships and sell them into the market for isk.
Stage 4: Market saturation would settle prices back down to a lower level.

CCP should limit the incursions to maybe like a mission, where if you kill the ship, it doesn't respawn, and keep them for only a day. That way the farming of these high value events would stop and the market would take an eventual and gradual level.

Right now the game is very newbie unfriendly (more than usual) to up to a battlecruiser, a player would have to farm their L3 or L4 missions as long as it would've taken to farm missions to a carrier about this time last year.

From a microeconomic standpoint, I agree with you.

However, I think there is more at play here. It is my opinion that there are artificial market forces at work here. I've suspected for a few weeks now that there are a small number of persons/entities buying up supply so as to increase the value of those goods. Machariel price has increased by over 50% in Caldari space since April 1. Last night, there was 1 CNR on the Lonetrek Market (730M isk); zero in The Citadel; ~5 in The Forge (655M+ isk). Last week, the average market cost for a naked CNR was ~500M. That's a significant increase in a matter of 5 days.