Market Discussions

With the release of Citadels it was stated very clearly that an immense fortune will be required to create these structures and as with any new feature it is all about who can achieve it first to control that very aspect, which means Mr. Visa is going to be extremely popular for that instant ISK, combined with high-roller players already stockpiling plex in assets for when they need to drop it.

The market will be flooded with supply resulting in the price to crash.

Manipulation is a term related to control.
If you buy a lot of PLEx with intent to manipulate the pricxe to either go up or down, or for other other purpose which one "manipulator" or another would control (yes, subcontracting is allowed in this kind of internet game, be it ISP contract or free wifi), one may intent to control part of the market in PLEx.

PLEx prices being what they are, I'm all but left out at this point.

I just earned my first PLEx ingame, from running incursion. I now have over 1.05b ISK left, and spent around 1 b more in the process.
So, I earned about 2b ISK income, and that would be enough for 2 PLEx time, except I had expenses to "get" the income.
I can still make 3b to 4b except again that Citadels come out today, which means more capital flow will go elsewhere, and my income risk to diminish yet again.

So, if you buy lots of PLEx low, and sell them high, how many PLEx do you need to make one PLEx worth?
I would say around 4 to 1, or 4 PLEx purchase sold buys you a 5th PLEx to reinvest in your PLEx manipulation capital.
That means that , once you have your first 5 PLEx from sales of PLExes, you can also sell that 5th PLEx and increase your capital.
So, you make around 20% profit on an item which is fairly high cost and value.

This ratio , of high value comparison , does go down with the new citadel even higher costs.
Nobody even knows the fuel cost, and the BluePrint are , I don't know how much or how many PLEx worth because I didn't check that yet.

So, if you buy 5 PLEx low, with the free profit 5th PLEx, and sell them high, you make 6.20 PLEx, or approximately 20% profit.
8 PLEx bought at that rate returns 10 PLEx worth, or 2 free PLEx.
40 PLEx earns 10 and 80, 20 for a new capital total of 100.

Except for an important detail, all the transaction is done exclusively in PLEx, for as long as the risk of exclusion works (instead of actually losing from exclusion).

CCP didn't want the volume of plex sales to fall with citadel bpos costing so much, no one has that sort of capital.

#conspiracy

well if there are orders for 20000 plex that's around $280,000 worth, who has that kind of money to spend on a game....could just buy another house

These orders are bogus. You can confirm it by importing the prices in a sheet. (margin trading scam)

These orders went up a few hours before patch. I checked a few of them and they all belonged to Probag Bear. See his post in MD. Pre patch speculation etc.

Originally the orders were placed to push the price up. Very few people bothered to out bid him for several hours before patch release . He pushed the price up about 15m. No one else really bidding. A few minutes after the patch was release and eve went back on line he caved and dropped the orders to 950m. As you can see he has since decreased the orders to 849m.

Its not CCP. They want the price to drop as do I. Enjoy the cheap plex while it lasts

Not sure if sarcasm or legit. If legit, link please?

How did you check a few orders?

He should skip the PLEX thing and just save for the Palatine citadel, so he can get an achievement...oh wait, that's another game.

What a turn of events, eh? From 1350 mil right after the injector fever, down to less than a billion in 2 months. I wonder where we're headed next...

But then how did I get the 38 trillion?.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3abPnEEGE

:n all seriousness, it's not me. I only made a few small orders. The rest belong to someone I told the method to. His name... "Pear brobag"