Market Discussions

Pyerite supply has been a bit sketchy of late, 1-2 days each week for the last 2-3 weeks it has almost dried up in each hub.

Trit does not suffer from the same problems

Trust you to be Mr Doom & Gloom Cores

I happen to have on it good authority you have a vast quantity of Trit stashed in one of your pockets.

Taking a wild guess at this.

Perhaps Faction Warfare is the culprit as it seems to be much more popular with the new changes. Guessing many more frigs and cruisers being popped and replaced now. Meta 4 and Meta 3 Medium Shield Extenders for frigates seem to have also risen in price since the Faction warfare changes so maybe this is confirming the increase in ships killed.

I don't know. It's almost as if someone is taking advantage of the lower production due to extended Hulkageddon for some risky pyerite market manipulation. In a lot of regions all sell orders simply vanished overnight a few days ago. Jumping more than a full isk in a matter of days, while trit seems to be comfortable around 6. That seems a bit weird if it was simple low-end scarcity due to Hulkageddon.

I've seen it happen years back with isogen, but I never imagined someone try it with pyertite.

you deserve a cookie :)

When eve was first opened for business there were npc buy orders for minerals:

Trit: 1 ISK per unit
Pyerite 4
Mex 16
Isogen 64
Nocx 256
Zyd 1024
Mega 4096

That 4 to 1 ratio was built into the game, in both availability of mineral types and need for industry. The price of pyerite being so close to trit is actually the anomaly, it should be 4 times that of trit.

The mineral demand adhered pretty well to that 1:4 ratio originally. The battleship manufacturer Techell Corp was the biggest buyer of minerals in the game back then and their mineral purchases were done in a 1:4 ratio (which often was a real pain in the ass for their suppliers).

But shifted popularity and many items and ships not adhering to that 1:4 ratio makes this a thing of the past. For instance: the Incursus which is currently very popular, only requires trit, pyer, mex and iso.

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People skip Scordite, as Veld is worth more.

Higher Pyerite prices should change that. If people are paying attention, that is. Rather than just assuming things don't change

Morphite's a weird one, dropped by the bigger drones it experienced the same spike & fall as zydrine and nocx, but not the same coverage.

Now it looks as though it's reached its floor at about 7000, volume is slowly diminising, and the price is starting to rise again (ever so slightly right now though).

I think people underestimate the amount of stock that changed hands over the last three months though.

Let's take XXDeath as an example:

Major sov holding alliance in drone regions for a long time with a LOT of members and pets = plenty of time for a lot of members to accumulating massive stocks of drone poo.

Enduring an expensive and tiresome war, draining a lot of their "non-poo" assets (ships, weapons etc...)

Disbanding and having to travel all the way up north with all those heavy minerals to join CFC? might as well just sell it all off while the market is right for it huh?

Couple that with the rest of the drone alliances wanting to get rid of their stock while the price was high, plus logistics and other pilots needing to adapt to the new method of buying and mining ore instead of looting it for manufacture. Most probably just flushed out their existing stock while the price was high just to reset their