Market Discussions

As the subject line: is the Burn Jita event having any effect on your market activities?

It's having no effect on mine that I am aware of.

Though it might be interesting if a Burn Dodixie occurred, since I operate one region over and I might cloak up and grab some popcorn to watch the show.

Anywhoo...

ship prices should get higher, some modules too

won't affect me personally

After a couple of false starts, I managed to offload a few hundred Catalysts and fittings I bought a while back, profits won't be as good as last year when I was selling fitted Catalysts for 5-10m a pop in packs of 10, but it's a lot less effort. All my other trade in Jita grinds to a halt though.

Sales are a bit slow but who cares? I was sitting in my training clone in Jita anyway so hopped into a pod killing Atron. Unfortunately, my security status is low due to vicious persecution by the lowsec rozzers. A bit difficult to catch pods when you only have ten seconds before the faction whatsits arrive.

So I sat on the Perimeter gate, experimenting as a flashy yellow with loads of players waiting. Four times I was driven away by the faction police before I was even locked. Surprised that no one wanted to have a go.

Burn Jita: The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do"?

I moved my primary market & industry alt 32 jumps from Jita, where he is grinding the last few tenths standing for refining, which may be somewhat pointless after the summer expansion.

Overall it hasn't been a good month for me. The month began with a wardec, and market prices seem to be tumbling on all but PLEX.

Now Burn Jita means another lost weekend. I've got several billion in materials I'm waiting to move out, plus orders that are unlikely to be filled for a week.

On the bright side, my alt is making ISK on missions (like all my alts, my market & industry alt is combat-capable).

In Jita I buy only, but never on weekends because prices are almost always higher.

So, no effect whatsoever.

If It goes on past Monday, I might have some small supply issues, but I keep 2-3 weeks of stock on all items anyway because I can't be arsed to do frequent supply runs.

Finally, I don't use freighters/orcas and, out of habit, I fly in highsec as if I were in lowsec, so I'm not the best of targets.

i like to read the killmails linked to isjitaburning.com. Man I can't believe the lists of stuff in some of those freighters. It's like Christmas times a thousand.

I would not be surprised if there are some lingering effects in areas of the market.

Consider for instance the New Order. We have inflicted about twice the damage of the present Burn Jita spread over a significant timeframe. However, our actions have almost ended highsec Mackinaw and Hulk use in highsec ice systems - often I need to check as many as ten systems to find one of those exhumers, whereas you used to see 5-10 in each system on average. They still exist but they are rare.

If Goons made Burn Jita semi-permanent, I think that in the short to medium term a new trade hub would replace it. However, the strategic aims of BJ aren't to disrupt empire trade, but instead to keep Goon line members interested in the game - as such it is unlikely to continue in the medium term.

Made a shitton of isk in other market hubs. Thnx CFC