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You are going to have to value it at something. Anyone clever enough to run reactions without losing money knows how to do this and, really, so do you.


That is for the market to decide.

Assume platinum of 2,000, and 15,000 fuel blocks (down once isotopes crash). That's a healthy margin on the fuel blocks at pre-hulkageddon isotope prices (blocks have a build cost of under 12k at isotopes = 600).


Floor calculations (this is the lowest tech can go)
Your costs for 1 hour of reactions are:
Old version:
Platinum x5 10,000
Fuelx16: 240,000
Total: 250,000

250,000 = 10 plat technite, plat technite worth 25k at the floor, tech floored at 50k

New version:
Platinum x10 20,000
Fuelx16: 240,000
Total: 260,000

260,000 = 20 plat technite, plat technite worth 13k at the floor, tech floored at 26k.

To get the real price, you add in profit: calculate what you think running a medium tower is worth per month (given how common cobalt is, 100m per tower seems reasonable since you can run many in one system), divide by 720 (hours in a month). That's 138,888 per hour

Your costs for 1 hour of reactions are:
Old version:
Platinum x5 10,000
Fuelx16: 240,000
Profit: 138,888
Total: 388,888. Round to 390,000 for nice numbers

390,000 = 10 plat technite, plat technite worth 39k in reality, tech worth 78k in reality.

New version:
Platinum x10 20,000
Fuelx16: 240,000
Profit: 138,888
Total: 398,888. Round to 400,000

400,000 = 20 plat technite, plat technite worth 20k in reality, tech worth 40k in reality.

No, you don't. Cobalt is worthless. This is a case where things you mine yourself are, quite literally, free: you swap a silo for a moon harvester and the input cost drops to zero. The market for cobalt is idiots selling to idiots: it's not a real market and will have no effect on tech prices.

This is what you really are saying, but since the market is there we cannot discount it entirely.

So what spikes in price? What am I supposed to buy right now?

OTEC brand unalchemized technetium.

If you have balls of steel, I'm sure you can have some fun in the technetium market

About 3 months too late to make a difference, seeing as EVE just got a lot more boring.

Removing the main conflict driver in 0.0 and effectively neutering suicide ganking of miners in highsec.

Adding insult to injury, the people who really benefit from the barge/exhumer changes are botters...

At least all POS fuel'll be cheap as chips when everyone dogpile into botting up a metric fucktonne of the topes, which means T2 ships'll cost less, which means that monetary inflation end up making losses hurt even less now than before.

It'll be awesome.

The moon minerals always have a value, even if their net extraction cost is negative, some people do not have cotrol of all the moons necessary under the iron fist of a dictator to get to the end product, so they must value their product somehow to see if it is worth it. The initial calculations seem to indicate cobalt might be worth it to extract and sell, but it is going to be constantly threatened by oversupply because there is so much excess supply potentially availble.

If the market behaves the as expected tech goes down and everything else goes up (more supply of PT -> lower prices of PT -> lower prices of intermediate goods -> lower prices of finished goods -> more finished goods units demanded -> more other moon minerals (OMM) demanded -> higher OMM price more OMM units supplied.

Since every other MM supposedly has massive slack I would not expect tech to lose the bottleneck position especially since it is going to have a wierd supply curve depandant on the relative profitability of cobalt alchemy, to high a price and new supply appears, to low and that supply disappears, but since many people Minerals I mine are free the natural order will not establish right away.