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The History of the Trade Hubs
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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2014-05-31 14:02:35 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
I'm not that old but Yulai was the earlier trade hub, then something happened with superhighways and m0o camping the route etc and Jita emerged, followed by the rest.

Jita is convenient - not just because it originally had decent quality agents - but it sits adjacent to 2 other regions. I'm pretty sure The Forge/Citadel and Lonetrek are historically the densest populated highsec areasdue to the popularity of Caldari as a playable race and the density of high level 4 agents.

Without wishing to be rude, this is a really common query - it's worth eve-searching or googling these types of queries first :)




Close, but incomplete.

Here's a bit of story for y'all greenhorns.


Back in the beginning, EVE gate network was made as such that all 4 empires connected to Yulai directly. This made Yulai pretty much the main hub for many years. This also means that there were 1.0 empire highways between them, since Yulai connected to all of them thru hisec, so you could go to any place by getting into Yulai.


Times changed, and there was a call to make the empires a bit more "split" with losec inbetween, so Gallente and Minmatar space connected directly thru hisec, while Caldari ended up with Amarr. This happened when FW was introduced, or was it before? Memory fuzzy, but I think it was before.

This also mean that some systems became hubs due to the existence of L4 agents in them, like Dodixie, Amarr, and, of course, Jita.

Add the fact that this was before bloodlines so alot of noobs went Asura because of good startup atributes, and they all converged into the "safest" place in caldari space with lvl4 agents: Jita. Market followed, and it snowballed from then on.

And then CCP saw Jita became a black hole and major calls were demanded to move lvl4's out of hisec. Jita got its gates somewhat reorganized so that you don't need to cross it if going anywhere, and lvl4's were removed from 1.0's, and to aleviate the black hole that was jita, lvl4 agents were removed from it.

Time goes by, but, even with all this, Jita remained the de facto hub due to this, and also the fact that nullsec wars were a bit split over between north and south, which cemented this. Even all over these years, with the North-South conflicts ended, the mission agent changes and all that, I guess people just got stuck around Jita.

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Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#22 - 2014-05-31 15:01:40 UTC
Happenstance. Circumstance. Nothing more.

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Cristl
#23 - 2014-05-31 15:57:50 UTC
Considering they only existed from July 2003 to April 2004 (ish) they sure generate continued interest.

I used to warp to space that was completely empty except for a random billboard when I used an out of date insta bookmark all the time. I wonder if those billboards in places like Lustrevik are still there?
Cypherous
Liberty Rogues
Aprilon Dynasty
#24 - 2014-05-31 16:24:27 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
The only trade hub was Yulai at first.


I remember the days of yulai being the place to buy stuff, then they changed some of the jumps between systems and jita became the new hub
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-05-31 16:51:42 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
Happenstance. Circumstance. Nothing more.

pretty much, really. circumstances at the time made Jita the hub that it is today.

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