Market Discussions

After leaving my last corp and creating my own I have been helping the mostly new members of my corp in buying and fitting ships. I am doing this naturally with my limited experience and knowledge of mainly Caldari boats. Lately I have been helping them purchase ships and I have noticed that there is an uptick on cruiser and BC prices. Reason I am asking is that I and my corpies intend to lose many ships at PVP. My corpies are mostly new players and therefor have nowhere near the resources that I have. I assume that part of the price increase is from more intense battles and the influx of new and returning pilots since Crucible dropped.

So what do you say MD, should I stock up on our chosen ship types and how long do you foresee this rising trend continuing?

Minerals minerals minerals. I do have low SP corpies who need to train skills. Might as well start making my own ships as well.

I like Profit

It's a combination of all of the above mentioned.

1. Introduction of tier 3 battlecruisers.
2. Removal of RoF penalties that were originally imposed on destroyers.
3. The buffing of hybrids.
4. Market speculation.
5. Hulkageddon plus the year-long career gankers supplemented by the ganking of ice miners during Goonswarm's recent ice interdiction.

Eventually, the combination of these factors will result in a considerable increase in demand for minerals. In some systems, Tritanium are selling for almost 5 ISK/unit.

Although, surprisingly the price of the Hulk had gone down for some strange reason. Hulks use to cost 250-270mil ISK/unit before they recently hit a low of 200-220mil ISK/unit. It could be that the Hulk producers are flooding the market with these ships for whatever reason. I would've assumed that the price of the Hulk would go up considering the effect that CO tax hikes have had on POS owners who rely on planetary colonies to produce POS fuels so that their POS can keep producing the T2 components needed for the Hulk.

Beats me.