EVE General Discussion

Not likely. If prices remain above approx. 0.54 PLEX, then SP farming will increase rapidly to meet demand and push the price back down.

Keep in mind that SP farming is really simple, totally passive and risk-free. Every player in the game can do it, and setup as many farming accounts as necessary to meet demand.

Bear in mind we're talking about a temporary price bubble.

Alts need 5.5m SP before you can farm them.

So even if prices went completely crazy, this extra SP won't be available for 3 months.

That's incorrect because people have been setting up farm alts before the patch hit. Easiest way to do it would be to buy up cheapish characters when it got announced, wait till the patch hits, strip them off completely and then start training immediately, meaning that the first farmed SP will be available in a tad more than a week after the patch.

Reading comprehension has failed you. The characters that got stripped of SP get to keep 5m of it, which means they are already training towards the first 5.5m SP extraction point. With +5 implants, it will take less than eight days for the first farmed SP to hit the market, not the three months you claim. And that's worst case scenario. Any character that was left with more than 5m but less than 5.5m will get to that point even faster.

A "few" alts. How do you know what the number of those "few" alts would be? Or do you really believe that people who have seriously looked into establishing character sp farms are only now starting to train them? It's going to be less than eight days for the first generation, not months. That's not a speculation, unlike you claiming that there'll be only a "few" alts.

You preconditions for a price bubble just assume that the demand will stay consistant with patch day. It will not be so, as we experienced a huge consumer boom because it's a brand new service. That will drop off. What are you going to do then?

So it would make sense to use the current 600m costs to create an "instant" farm alt at 5.5 m SP, take advantage of the 1200 bubble, then trickle the SP at 800?

In any case, the people arguing against you are just saying that we've known this feature was coming since 3-4 months ago, which should be plenty of time to set up farm alts. Sure, not everyone will have had the foresight, but you can't assume that nobody is smarter and hasn't thought of it 3 months ago.

There's a big supply of SP's now, but there's a big demand now too; people who wanted to move points or create alts are doing it now. In a month, the overriding consideration will be just how expensive it is. You may see demand only when CCP introduces some new skills, like with the faux/carriers.

Agree, once everyone in the game today is satisfied with shuffling around SP and all have optimized chars, the demand will only come from new players and new alts. Whereas supply can be basically unlimited through farming alts, extracted bazaar chars, and "completed" mains.

If farming alts are profitable, this is almost certainly the case.

Contrary to popular wisdom, at the moment they are not very profitable and it's highly doubtbful people will bother for such a small return. But when prices rise, they will be.

In the meantime, it will still take 3 months for SP farming alts to come fully online in large numbers.

Wrong on both accounts.

Keep in mind that the injectors were announced on 15-10-2015, so anyone that would've wanted to set up a farm has had the chance to do so before patchday.

He sounds like someone who's holding injectors, hoping to cash out in 1-2 months.