Market Discussions

Depends upon the consequences of station destruction.

There's thirty trillion on sell orders in Jita now, but it would not surprise me if there's assets in the station worth a quadrillion or more.

I would be stunned if there are fewer than a trillion units of Trit in hangars there for one, or fewer than a hundred thousand battleship hulls or a quarter million battlecruiser hulls from Tiericide.

Would you move that to a destructible station?

I was talking to player-built station (market hub station) destruction, if hubs are placeable in highsec.

I can't answer your question, but the Republic is a bit odd in regards to trade hubs, as it's the only of the 4 empires to feature two more or less equal hubs: Rens and Hek.

+1

I would drop the money to put down a POS and a non or near non existant tax rate, but the simple fact that any corp/alliance that felt like it could come take it down prevents me from wanting to. Why try when it will end like Poco's? Most if not all 'good' ones go to he with the most firepower. Perhaps instead ones that get put up could be bought and sold like real-estate, and if the account for the 'owner' lapses for more than X time, it goes up for 'auction' by Concord.

It would also adress a problem, ISK sinks, Becausethe money in the auction goes to concord its removed from game. :)

Just a idea.

It's just you.

Many many years ago, when I was some months old, I met a guy while I was mining. We started talking (his eve age was even younger than mine) and I ended up donating him few millions out of goodwill. No expectations, I just said take this money it will help you making a good start. A month later I found 400 million in my wallet and a letter saying he gave this game a shot but it's not for him and he was leaving for good, since I was kind and generous to him, I could inherit all this net worth. Now this was before the time of Plex, but there were ISK traders around so he probably bought that ISK.

Eve is a difficult place and selfishness is always promoted, but beginning of my story points out, good deeds may pay off (sometimes). I took that 400M and used it for trading eventually. I made billions out of it, and I was a newcomer. If the market is impossible to enter now, it was impossible to enter back then too. If you think that 400 million was the key, No... you can invest few dollars today, buy a single plex to sell and still enter the market in case thats the issue. Reality is, options were more limited in the past.

Here is the Key: I roamed a lot and memorized all the prices. It's not only about security levels. You gotta travel the universe and have a clear understanding in your mind what the price differences are, what the current issues, and needs. When you have a clear picture, you can make very handsome profits, more than anybody ever believed newcomers can do so. You gotta know the universe you live in though, you need to invest in this knowledge.

Answer the other part of your question: There may be new hubs to emerge, but yes the historic hubs will always be the main ones unless something changes and Jita's surrounding becomes low sec and invaded. Just as NY Stock Exchange will always be NYSE. If trading there is difficult, creating a new major stock exchange (hub) is even more to do so. That doesn't mean Null sec hubs don't work but they have their own nature, the rules of trading are very different than secure major hubs there. You can't create a new Jita in null sec. Null sec won't have a "healthy" market, but it can bring you a good profit if you can satisfy the nature of null sec business.