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Quick calc, "initial draft" tech alchemy is 10 Plat Tech = 100 cobalt + (100-95=)5 platinum + 1h of fuel for 3000+tf (which would be 20 fuel blocs or around 350k ISK).
So that's 1 PT = 10 cobalt + 0.5 plat + 35k ISK for fuel (the old alchemy 20:1 tech:cobalt replacement ratios)
Plat Tech used to sell for around 92k ISK lately, but it will almost certainly be falling.

Cobalt used to sell for ~500 but it recently spiked to over 3k, Platinum was around 2.5k and now it's around 4.5k, so that's 30k from Cobalt, barely over 2k from Platinum, 35k from fuel, making PT cost 67k to manufacture.
Add in at least 100m ISK/mo per reactor profit to make it start worth bothering with (7,200 units/reactor/month), so another 14k minimum, and you're looking at a 81k price for PT down from the previous 92k trade level.
Not a lot less, but still noteworthy.
That would cap tech price at around 145k-155k or thereabouts. Assuming Cobalt/Platinum or fuel block prices would not spike, and assuming people would be willing to accept a mere 100m per month from a reactor. So, maybe, tech price won't be going down much in the long run, but it won't go up more as it could have if there was no tech alchemy at all.
Depends how long they'd keep the reactions at that level.

And of course, they could bring the replacement ratios further down from 10 Cobalt and 20 fuel blocks more in line with other current alchemy numbers (2.5 Cobalt and 5 fuel blocs and just 3.5k minimum added expected minimum profit, so the new 5:1 alchemy), which would make it much cheaper (assuming cobalt and platinum would NOT spike even further in price, to a mere 22k per unit of PT). That would cap tech to a negligible price compared to the current level, probably below 40k per unit.
Of course, in that case, I expect both cobalt and platinum to go up more, and I also expect people to want more monthly profit from reactors than a measly 100m/mo/reactor, so before any further changes, we might as well still see tech over 60k per unit (or even a bit higher) even with the VASTLY buffed alchemy reactions.
Depends how much it takes them to implement OTHER changes on top of just alchemy.

sorry: not market price, "speculative bubble price"

Was wondering when you'd pop up here, Akita.

Ha ha ha I like this OP. Raver, calling it

You make the mistake of assuming that you have to have someone mine it, bring it to wherever to sell and then bring it back somewhere to react on a different tower. Simply put a medium POS on a cobalt moon and buy some plat, and run the reaction right there on the moon while mining.
That may sound like a "minerals I mine myself are free" argument, but the difference is that doing that cuts out the cost of acquiring the cobalt since you don't need an extra tower consuming fuel for it, while also cutting out all the work required to run that tower and haul stuff to and from it, so unlike the mining scenario you perform less work by acquiring it yourself instead of more work.
Cobalt is so cheap that it's not even worth mining+hauling (yes, some do it, but those are the same people that would be willing to run plat tech alchemy without profit, just like they now run cobalt mining without profit), so you can't even argue opportunity cost.
Therefore, the only math needed was described a few pages ago:



That's based on a the inflated plat price of 6k, so with a normal price you'd make a profit even earlier.

Should be able to moon mine hi end minerals from empire, don't see why 0.0 has to have everything maybe even let the low end moon goo be available from hi sec ?

Just a thought

Oh the tears

Oh the mega corps

oh the very epic nature of

Someone is going to rage quit



Can i get this super sized

I'm sorry, but I don't think this goes far enough.

It will mean that a few more moons become attractive and viable enough to mine, but these will all soon be taken but rarely fought over.

I would suggest expanding the number of available moons to include Class 4 systems. (I never really understood why it had to be Class 3) and I agree with previous posts calling for moon goo to be available through PI.

Until some jack-ass like myself comes along while prices are low and continues pressing the "pressure valve".

So what happens then?

You would think that the prices would keep going down until they reach the minimum price of the materials and taxes that went into creating the product. Right?

Wrong....

They would continue to plummet for so long as players continue to pump capital into the market and force the price down.

Over "X" amount of duration and practice, this sets a new standard.

Now with a new standard set. There is nothing to prevent the events that took place and forced the market prices up in the first place from happening again.

Alchemy will only buy time. As the current standard goes away and the new standard becomes the current standard which sits in place of the old standard. Basically, "one cycle".

So how long is, "one cycle"?
One cycle is as long as it takes for those with an industrious mind-set to calculate the numbers and re-stage events.

Prices may go down during the interim, while those that understand EVE is nothing more than a "Unit and ISK Generator" and scramble to regain control. They will eventually regain control and put the prices where they want them. It is just a matter of time.

That word, "communist", I don't think you know what it means.