Market Discussions

I am just trying to discern what is going on with the booster market. I'm a long-time player who's back for either the third, or maybe fourth time now. I started playing seriously in January of 2004. It took me until 2012 to try making and smuggling boosters, and I found it to be pretty enjoyable-- if a bit of a pain to do solo.

So, now that I've come back again, I thought I would get back into it. Only this time I wouldn't do it alone, I'd join a booster production corporation! Except almost all of the ones that I have attempted to contact seem to be inactive or on life-support. I've gotten some very generous offers from people running industrial or more generalist corporations to come produce under their roof, but I am really looking for a specialist organization.

So my question is this: What is the deal? I realize that demand for these products tends to be pretty low, but I figured there would be at least one group of people out trying to do it. Does everyone just make their own? I see buy orders on the market, and some of them are decently priced, so somebody must be using them.

I'm just a little baffled that there doesn't seem to be any advertising or visible (corporate) branding. I do realize that you can run an operation with just one or two low/mid SP characters, and that it's probably not really smart to produce freighters full of them because people just don't use that many, but what gives?

I still have a couple irons in the fire in terms of employment, but it's honestly getting to the point where I'm just going to start my own operation. I have all of the infrastructure already: tower+modules, fuel, gas, BPCs, reactions, etc. I recognize that this will not make me rich (quickly), but I do know how to turn a profit with it and it's pretty fun.

Truth is nobody wants to share this market it can be the most tedious but lucrative isk you can earn if done from start to end correctly but tbh its not somthing you see people advertising eiher so you might find it hard to find such a group, best of luck though.

Coreli Corporation in-game, are they still around and doing boosters?

http://corelicorp.net/

To contact "Ess and Whizz", join channel "Narcotics". They are pretty active.

If you look at Coreli, they have minimum combat requirements as well.
That could be either good or bad depending on which end of the stick you are.

Best of luck with your search.

The new drifter based boosters may be responsible for some of the decline:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6362686

I haven't looked into them much, but there is some overlap between them and the traditional combat boosters.

I think the only other way is by raiding the Drifter wormholes. I agree, they are very time inefficient to procure.



I think the things you noted are part of why boosters are not popular. Another could be a lack of understanding in how they work, that the penaties for using a booster are only sometimes applied through random chance. I've also always suspected boosters have low popularity because they are a specialized product within specialized styles of play (elite PvP, Wormhole C5/C6 escalations, etc.)



I wish you luck on doing market research, that sort of thing is typically beyond me. When I made and sold boosters, the best I've managed to do is use the stats available in Dotlan, the in game map, and http://eve-marketdata.com/station.php to pick out stations and areas that already have a lot of pilot and market activity to narrow down my choices of where to sell.