EVE New Citizens Q&A

Try hauling to there from either of the two biggest hubs (jita/amarr) yourself.

Biiiiiiiig looooooooooooooooong booring warps in those big slow alighning, slow warping piniatas.

Bear in mind that Rens (and Hek) are the smallest trade hubs in the game and, as a result, tends to lack certain products.

Jita and Amarr are the largest. So if you are looking for something... you will probably find it there.


If you can't find what you are looking for in Jita or Amarr then one of the follow things may be the root of your problem:
- your search parameters are off (see: you will have to fiddle with the market window and its settings a bit)
- you are looking up the wrong name/term. Try different variations of names and/or check the spelling. If you know for sure that an item exists... start exploring the item directory.
- you are looking for an item that is rare or does not exist
- the module is crap and and/or the basic version is fairly useless


Out of curiosity... what module(s) are you looking for?



edit: also... yes, there are places in EVE where the market is bare-bones or nearly non-existent. Don't see this as a flaw. It is a feature.
What this means is that you can haul out stuff (or make it) and sell it on the market in a near geographical monopoly. Just be sure there is demand for the products you want to sell.

Try this: https://eve-central.com/

Type in an item name and you will generally find what you are looking for (including the system where it is sold).


The "new player exclusive" modules would be called "Civilian (insert module type here)"

Civilian mods are, frankly, more than useless. To use them, you need level 1 in the skill that they tie into (ex. Civilian Gatling Gun requires "Small Projectile Weapons Level 1").

However, once you have level 1 in any of those necessary skills, you can already use pretty much ANY Tech 1 modules that falls under that skill's purview... which is VASTLY better in pretty much all ways.


The meta weapons... those come only from NPCs (see: they can't be manufactured) and are dropped only by certain NPCs... which is region specific.
You probably won't find that many meta hybrid weapons in Minmatar space.
But you SHOULD be able to find a lot of meta projectile weapons.


The old adage of business applies here: "Location, location, location."

Players are VERY lazy and they may not want to make the trip from their staging point all the way over to any of the trade hubs.
This is doubly so if the difference in price between where they are located and where the hubs are is 10 or 15%.

At the same time, if you put up sell orders in an out-of-the-way place where there are few people... or you put up sell orders for things that no one wants... there will be little demand.


So it may not be that there is no "demand" per se... but rather that demand is higher in certain areas of space and not others. Or that supply is high in certain areas of space so people flock to it and base themselves closer to that supply... reinforcing demand and encouraging further increases in supply... but only in those areas of space.



tldr (for everything): Markets in EVE are quite "regional" and neither supply nor demand are the sole factors in why certain places are stocked up with products while others are not.
You have to account for NPC types that inhabit a region, type of activities for players to do in an area, whether there are active wars (or ganking) in the surrounding systems, etc.

Yea, that's why the real Eve Moguls like Rita Jita exclusively station trade. Oh wait, no he doesn't.

A whole lot of his stuff is moved inter-regionally via contracts.

OP, it all comes down to supply and demand. If there is no supply but demand then players will supply themselves or use an alternate. In Stain the entire market was blank from zero activity, because everyone was hauling their supplies to corp hangers from Jita runs. It took me months to get the market active enough so people will shop local.

You could try seeding that market and see if it draws any attention. Try checking out the market data on Jita to see if there is even a demand. Those modules you can use might be primarily sold for scrap.

I don't know much about it, but the Dodixie market just ain't like it used to be.

I'm not sure about invention and t2 can take a bunch of sp, but your idea for populating market inventories isn't a bad one.
I'd drop the banding together part, though. Teamwork is great in most of EvE, but when it comes to price gouging your way to billions? I'd go solo.
Place buy orders on mission running hubs. Use the hauling channel to move your products around when they reach sufficient bulk. I'm not sure where you should be selling your products, but you'll want to go one of two directions. Either you keep lots of sell orders out ridiculous prices in systems with poor markets and a lot of action, or make sure you can make a profit bringing your goods to market in one of the hubs.
You might look into how to get more efficient reprocessing and just sell the minerals at grand profits.

Maybe I misinterpretted what you meant by getting by, but the iskbear in me says to profiteer for profiteerring's sake.

As someone else pointed out, Industrial and Freighter ships are constantly being ganked now so the goods for sale in regional markets is now becoming more area specific.

Don't know why everyone is hating on Rens.

My 'Base Of Operations' is in Rens and I rarely have to travel anywhere else to purchase items. Now I don't know if I'm paying a bit more and more importantly I don't care, I don't need to travel which is fine with me. I will say every once in a while a specific item isn't available so I'll then make a special trip to Jita just for that item.

So the only time I purchase items from any other market is when I'm in that area and need to replenish munitions. Other than that, I always buy from Rens and use Jita as a backup.



DMC

The market is almost fully player-run.

T1 and T2 items are produced by players, the in-between meta items and the officer and faction modules are looted.

As a result, you'll see a lot of T1 and T2, and perhaps less meta named items and officer stuff, because looting and transporting loot is a pain. So the mission runners will bother to take the expensive officer and faction loot to market, but won't bother with the lesser meta items because it's just bulk volume that's a pain to transport for little profit.

In addition, the recent increase in NPC station taxes means that it's even less worth it to try to eke out a meager profit from the little things. The taxes are concentrating everything into Jita, where at least there's volume, and the other trade hubs are probably going to have a lot less variety and may even stop functioning as trade hubs.

Working as intended by CCP, I think.

Can you elaborate a tad? I'm curious when is too early to try and make my way out to those trade hubs.