Market Discussions

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How will this change the market? -News at 11

(Wasn't CCP btw, player unloaded FW stuff)

Like a drop in the ocean

It is an awful move, except maybe the seller will be away from EVE the next 3 months, who knows.

Yea "first in line" would work if all other sellers were courteous enough to sell at 900,000,000.01 isk

Let's say the guy is as bored as me with eve .Now unlike me he isn't a forumplayer and with the new unlimited skillqeue he could just leave the game now and come back in a years time , i just plexed for 3 more years and intend to use the skillqeue as soon as it hits the server to never have to log in again unless i need to transfer isk to someone so it isn't THAT odd..
He could assume , wich isn't all that odd as well , that by that time the price will have well exceeded 900M.Also we can only assume it's an 8% profit margin if we know for certain he got them at the current price.Even then 8% on 800B is better then nothing on 800B wouldn't you think?

So in short , we can assume a lot , but as none of us knows the inner thought he put into it we will never know but to me it doesn't look that stupid.

Me thinks he'd have been better off just buying up all the PLEX he could with that ISK, from the main market hubs, then putting it back on the market at the lowest price, which would be on average higher than the average he payed for the PLEX.

Really though investing in a CCP controlled market is stupid risky. Could do the same with minerals or isotope or ship markets and dominate without fear of CCP buttfucking him.

Off topic:

Wow, like received = 5555!

This odd number made me want to say that these peculiar numbers play a role in RL finance.
In fact, big investors don't just use Big Round Numbers but also easy to type numbers when they need to place orders that won't sit on a round number.
In example some currencies see big activity around prices like: 1.3333, 1.6666 and similar. This also happens in EvE, but in a different way: some traders love to place their items at "signature prices", where the signature is in the decimal digits. This was expecially common before CCP made colors more important in the market window.





You have to enter in the mindset of the big guys. They (and I, despite not being that "big" at all, compared to some) don't care at all to make some more ISK by working hard to clear markets in peripheral hubs and relist at Jita or similar. It's too much :effort:.

Better make a 50B profit in 5 minutes or earn 70B with tiresome effort and warping around? (I am generalizing the case to all kinds of stock).
Clearly the first, and by doing it you can seek for another 50B opportunity in the next 5 minutes. By chasing the other option you'll still be moving stuff around by the time you found the second 50B opportunity by playing lazy.

In the end I (and others) just setup a totally passive chain of ISK "generation". As posted on another thread, I (and I see Flakeys as well) don't need to play at all for months, ISK just generates by somebody else's efforts for us. "Free" PLEXes forever.

Sadly for me (and I am sure, for others) this had been my "game victory condition" since the early days, once achieved it the desire to "play more" at EvE goes down to the point of playing very little.

The part of this thread where y'all are attributing some master trading nonsense to Kwark is p. funny.

That's a lot of tax paid.

It's easier to relate to being spacerich, virtually everyone here is a millionaire at the very least.

As for social security, if that thing works properly in your country, consider yourself fortunate.