Crime & Punishment

With the advent of citadels this might change.

But just wondering, are there any current pirate trade hubs comparable or close to the supply offered by Hek, Dodixie, or Rens.

Have there ever been (to your knowledge) lowesec stations that have come close to this kind of supply?
Were such trade hubs a success or failure? What where the challenges?

I ask because for many players who do not have really good trade alts going pirate is very difficult...acess to a lwosec trade hub might fix this.

And so far I have not seen any, certainly not Amamake (there is no one station) and Tama might have been although I haven't gone to check it out lately.

Other opinions, jsut wondering if its been done in lowsec to a huge scale?

Also a moderator feel free to move this over to market discussion - it could be the folks in here dont follow the market much! :P

Pretty much this. You'll have an exceedingly hard time setting up a trade hub anywhere there isn't enough security for shipping to get to/from the station relatively unmolested.

If you're looking to do business in LS, the first LS jump in from HS is a great place to sell small m3 items. There was a time where I used to make a killing selling implants in the '1 jump in' npc stations. Find small stuff and sell it.

If you want to sell larger things - ships and what not, the best bet is to make friends with some of the larger LS groups and offer to set something up via JF for them. The downside is most of the larger groups handle this internally and won't be interested. The game is 10 years old, if there were any ultra lucrative options - they would be up and running.

I don't think a player station is the way to go. A lot of times in LS sand castles get smashed just because they are there. As has been pointed out, any success you have will be tempered in kind w/ opportunists.

The best angle I can think of as far as larger volumes would be the next time a large wh entity gets wonked. The norm is to respawn somewhere in LS (Syndicate more often than not). When they get ousted, find out where the respawn system is and figure it out from there. It won't be permanent, but that seems like you could do volume for a bit anyway. JF required!

If only CCP didn't succumb to asset safety pressure and enable the space magic fueled teleportation of good when player stations are burned down. Their pandering to the risk averse took away a lot of market opportunities.

Meh.

Never happen because SOME PEOPLE just can't resist cynoing in a supercarrier to blow everything up.

Meh.

There actually is or was a spot for just this (lowsec capials not trannies that are owed)

There's the Maila keepstar where people sell their supercapitals apparently.
Just add other stuff to sell there and voila lowsec market hub created?

Black Frog I think does this, just a different approach.

As has been said, any success will bring eventual failure. Eve isn't a place where you can build a thriving market in any area where supers can by cyno'd in on a lul. How many light years is Resbroko from Amamake? If it's w/in 2 cyno jumps - you're idea isn't the best.

You're better off just making a friend that hauls that can take care of your needs and be done with it like everyone else.

Try to break the camp and suddenly supers I think is where that was going

Someone in Basgerin has set up an attempt at a trade hub, named Tortuga.

It is not working particularly well for them, I am often purchasing things there - even things in high demand outside highsec like capital modules - and am having them moved to Dodixie or Jita for profitable resale.