Market Discussions

Hey all! Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone that I should have PI metrics ready for tomorrow. I've been lazy and I've only just put the typeids that I needed. The plan is as follows:

An index for each of the commodities;
Raw Material Index
Processed Material Index
Refined Commodity Index
Specialized Commodity Index
Advanced Commodity Index

I'm also toying with a different sort of metric for the pos fuels. It's still on paper, though, so don't expect that too soon.

.ute

Hey Ute,

Some things I thought would be interesting to touch on during a weekend report:

Current Market Events
- Drone Region Nerf and subsequent mineral speculation
- Burn Jita! (maybe get a guest interview with The Mittani?)

Ongoing Market Discussion Topics (because dead horses are fun to flog)
- The value of auditing (or lack thereof?)
- T2 BPOs
- Moon goo bottlenecks (would tie into proposed ring mining by CCP)

It would also be interesting to see some debate about the future of markets and economic information flow in EVE. Dr. E. and his team have made statements that they are working on a possible market data dump (aka opening the books) which would allow us to see actual transactions in the marketplace instead of just buy/sell orders. How could this effect 3rd party development? What level of information would be needed and/or useful?

Meh, just my random 2 ISK, if you're looking for stuff to talk about. The Zaxix interview was cool. More guest commentary/debate/interviews would be nice to get varying perspectives.

Durin

Hey Ute, thanks for the name drop on the show the other day. Keep up the good work. It's fun to listen to.



Some buddies and I did some theorizing about what could be gained from traders pooling resources and information. The results are obviously pretty staggering, but the real issue we had came down to updating each other's orders. Without that ability, it'd be near impossible to keep this thing viable.

You want the freedom to monitor the market from multiple locations and update orders without having have your buddy online every day. Ideally it would allow traders the ability to update 'corp' market orders if they have corp 'trader' rights. Even orders that they didn't place originally.

A true corp level market order system would allow traders to pool resources and optimize trading potential. But without it, it just requires a lot of alts. Not all of us have that many accounts.

Durin

Hope to see some metion of these links

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=28612
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/devblog/2012/Escalationf3.png

In the weekend report... love your show! Dr E's DEV blog makes me wonder how much he thinks the current inflationary trend will continue over the next 6 months I doubt he ( or really anybody admitidly ) could figure in player intervention like Hulkageddon or the Jita interdiction on the 28th ( I guess maybe the effects of the goons ice interdiction may give some insights he did say at fanfest he had some info about that but didn't being it into his presentation due to time constraints)

Keep up the good shows guys

Very nice podcast the latest one..

I especially enjoyed the plugging of the PBS show..

There are a few others that should be mentioned.

The 7 apps of western civilization.

The Luxuries of ancient greece..

Which I found very informative..

Any chance you guys would be up for going live via google hangouts soon™...

I opened a page for the lounge here SCC-Lounge

My PI spreadsheet which uses the same approach has been suffering from the same problem, my work around is to stick an &HOURS=X on the end of the URL and change X when it fails, to force a reload.

Yes, X is the max age of included orders in hours, I generally use values in the range 24-48 for Jita and 72 for other hubs.

Given yours is a daily index you should probably include orders =24 hours old.

I think you should start tracking empire faction ships. With the Inferno changes, you can now speculate on the faction war, which is kind of interesting. It could be a good topic for a weekend report, too.




Same for datacores. The militias all have mechanical engineering datacores, but the others are faction-specific and could vary in price if there is a swing in warzone control:




If that's too much, maybe just read off the warzone tiers and system control percentages during the morning report.

o/ All, today was our 74th show.

Anyone got any ideas for our 100th when it comes up? We're just over a month out! Hoping to do a Mega-Show!

o/ Everyone!

I come bearing some slightly bad news.

I will be officially re-entering Hiatus as of now. In fact, I likely will be unsubscribing across the board (who am I kidding, I know I am).

I've had an absolute blast these past months working on the program. As always, it was an insightful learning experience, both about internet spaceship economics, real economics, and myself. It is the latter that I became concerned with.

It's going to sound cliche, but I am leaving New Eden to focus more on my art. That's right -- I do stuff other than podcasting. In fact, I someday want to be a 3D character designer (though that's admittedly a long way off). To get there takes dedication, time, and perserverence on a scale that I've really been putting off for some time. EVE has been my go-to activity for some time now, and that's started to bother me. I want my go-to to be something that I can apply later.

So I'm embarking on the true grind; and it's one not of standings or MD reputation, but it is one quantifiable only by yourself. My friend said to me a week ago at my first piano lesson in 10 years, "3 hours a day will make a virtuoso in 10 years." Frankly, I likely don't have 3 hours a day, every day, but every moment counts. I can no longer justify playing EVE in lieu of the practicing of my craft, or the practicing of a skill that I so desire to attain.

That said, my time here has not been spent in vain, nor do I regret any second of early wakeups to get the show out, or any weekend evening that I spent discussing the minutia of virtual economics.

I wish all of you, especially MD, the best of luck in your investing endeavours. May your wallets, always be in the black. And, of course,

.tradesafe