Market Discussions

Exciting times for the Planet V / Offshore consortium, I look forward to rendering any assistance that I can. Any fellow capsuleers who have some stake in an expanding market governed by performance and not protectionism please consider docking a solid PvP ship or two in the next active market hub.

Further, Moac, do you know if the intra-system hauling service has the turnaround time to move assets in the hours leading up to citadel timers exiting reinforcement? I will lend a freighter or two if need.

Hello to friends and enemies alike,

I bring you all another update from the finest free trade market operation in New Eden.

Every day we are rallying more supporters to our cause, and have reached a level where the momentum seems to have snowballed Planet V into something much more than originally envisioned.

We now have a permanent presence in the four major trading regions; The Forge, Domain, Sinq Laison, and Metropolis.

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Developing Free Trade Markets

In order to sustain and develop the operation long term, we have refined our strategy and will be making a couple of changes this Sunday.

In Ashab the public broker rate will be returning to 0.1%. The temporary 0.0% has been effective in putting pressure on the backers who support the extortion of high sec, and it is a good time now to raise this back to the standard 0.1% rate.

In The Forge as part of a long term strategy we have decided to keep a permanent 0% public rate at all of our hubs in the region. It is necessary to apply the maximum pressure here to those who are backing the enemies of free trade, and so for this reason we have no plans to change the rate here for the foreseeable future.

In the still developing market operation around Hek and Dodixie we are still refining the strategy and so will continue to offer a permanent 0% public broker rate.

We will also be increasing the amount required to obtain the permanent 0.0% rate to 100m ISK as opposed to the current 20m ISK. The 20m ISK rate was initially set very low in order to increase trade volume in our hubs and reward early supporters, and at 100m this will still offer great value whilst helping to support the investment needed to develop the service and provide free trade markets in the long term.

I'd like to thank everyone who has donated in support of the cause so far, and many who have donated well in excess of the 20m ISK required for the 0.0% rate. The donations and messages of support really help us motivated to keep this going.

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Free Trade in The Forge

After a long battle in Perimeter against ICY and Pandemic Horde, we have decided it is no longer worth the continued time and investment in keeping a hub active in Perimeter, although we are still committed to providing a Planet V Trade market hub within one jump of Jita at all times.

Perimeter has been a great opportunity to push the citadel mechanics to their limits, and we have tested them to the extreme against an opponent who has had the utmost dedication to destroying all the competition in the system for their backers. I do not think there will be many that will be able to go to the lengths that Pandemic Horde have gone to, and so this was the perfect testing ground to forge a solid foundation to our operation.

The fact is that a hub can be placed at any location in the region within one jump of the market system, and so we need not limit ourselves to only one system when we can dramatically increase the pressure on our opponents by anchoring hubs in a number of possible locations. Perimeter was a battle with many good fights that will be forever remembered, although in the end it is just a small part of this great war.

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This war we are fighting; the war for the right to trade freely without excessive barriers and extortion, has been a war of which many great battles have gone relatively unreported in the Eve media. I believe though that this is one of the great wars of our time. Together we can make sure history will remember this as the point at which the average capsuleer took a stand against the might of the null empires, and won.

They increased the broker fee? are you sure, is this for everybody? maybe it's just your corp I doubt they'd increase it across the board, they might be putting a tax on people helping phorde?

Edit, nvm just checked and I'm seeing it too, and I checked on alts, this is crap, these guys are just are doing exactly what they claim to be trying to stop

We have been experiencing a number of pandemic horde alts spamming our channels, although if you are genuine would you be able to post screenshots of the increased broker fee? We have not actually put it back to 0.1% in Ashab yet, and also it is still only 20 million ISK to receive the 0% broker fee for life.

As much as I would like to, I unfortunately cannot run the operation at 0% permanently as it does cost a lot to maintain it with having to replace the lost hubs.

Also bear in mind, our enemies have stated that they plan on charging 0.5% and above, and it is only because of our dedicated team investing a lot of their personal ISK and time into the Planet V Trade operation that we have managed to stop them. It still never ceases to amaze me the benevolence of the people I have met during this journey.

Also it is worth mentioning; in the opening post it is stated that we will never increase the public broker fee above 0.1%, and the 0.0% supporters rate will always remain at 0.0% for life.

Our core principles have and never will change. The 0.0% public rate has always been clearly advertised as a temporary rate in both the MOTD and in this thread, although I fully expect that the enemies of Free Trade will try to spin this.

Yes.

Sindri Oksaras? Is that you? Monitoring perimeter dscan with macro, well played ph.

Gobbins also dreams about trillions off the citadels markets. You two together make a good pair.

I was just reviewing the Perimeter 'secured' info tab, and am grateful that our rivals allow docking and trading for a competitive rate. We can co-exist, Jeronica, as long as both sides treat market hubs as patient ISK fountains, not pump up fees as the POCOs adjacent would dictate.

Also worth mentioning, if we replace a market hub then it will always be listed at flat 0% broker fee for at least a full seven days to allow people to relist their orders at no charge.

Sometimes I am amazed as to how little it takes for you guys to jump to conclusions if you think it fits your narrative.

In any event, thanks for the free advertisement. Everyone, feel free to use my dodixie hub! It is at 0.0%, as are all my non-perimeter hubs.