Market Discussions

Thank you to these two entities for pushing the market on Exequeror hulls and meta 4 sensor dampeners so high.

Before you kiss and make up, can you give me some advance notice so I can liquidate wartime stock and reinvest that capital in mining barges and Catalysts?

-1 for just stating known game mechanics. Instead of writing something usefull

Its not an answer, its a statment. And its defenetly not an answer to OPs question.

So: L2READ, L2WRITE and L2EXPRESSYOURSELF

First it shoots the barge. then it sells the new barge. then it shoots the barge again.

You are right, it is my fault you don'have any knowledge in basic Economics. Let me clarify

When you have something with unlimited supply, or more technically perfectly elastic supply, you cannot have a long term increase in price over production costs (includes economic cost). With the barges you can make an infinite amount of them (or close since building slots are so many that they are considered infinite in this particular case). So in the long term they will never be higher than production costs. Meta 4 items on the other hand have a limited supply and with a huge surge in demand we can easily have a higher price equilibrium point.

-1 for not even trying to look up what I said, you are in the MD forum after all, if you can't get basic economics wtf are you doing posting here.

How is the supply for meta 4 items limited? If hypothetically meta 4 webs were buffed so much that they soared enormously in price, then suddenly mission running would become more lucrative.

Then some of the miners would change to missioning (or other forms of ratting that generated meta 4 webs).


The only limited supply items I can think of are the things (such as Revenant BPCs) that drop from Incursion motherships, as AFAIK a set number of them spawn per week.

You claimed my statment was "useless", all I was doing is using "economics", which clearly the subject revolves around, to prove to you how useful it is. Yes using "L2READ" and "funny" is a much better argument than using proven theories and logic. That surely makes me a troll, for trying to argue things from a scientific perspective and not from an ignorance one.

Yes you can 'produce' meta 4 items by killing rats.

You can't control the ratio of 'good' meta 4 items (sensor dampeners, warp scramblers) to 'bad' ones (energized kinetic plating), but you can produce meta 4 items in general, and some percentage of them will be good ones. Ditto even for the deadspace items, witness their price fluctuation recently with more people running exploration combat sites.

The only things that exist in the entire game that are limited are the items that have a maximum number of possible drop opportunuities per given time. Revenant BPCs come to mind, there's what, 3 to 5 lowsec incursions in a week? So 3-5 opportunities for that BPC to drop and that is all.

Onward to Delve!