Market Discussions

Decided to make a different kind of topic since most of the time is what's going to increase in price, but this time lets hear everyone on the other side.

We now have the changes on sisi and while not final we can make some assumptions.

My opinion on what is going to crash is that i see quite a lot of t2modules crashing in price because their build time will be decreased thanks to a huge decrease to copy times.

So folks please share your opinions on what else might crash in price and help avoid wealth getting into just few hands

Exotic Dancers... because everybody will be desperately dumping their cute little asses on the market in never-before-seen quantities as they grind missions like crazy to make their PLEX payments or Slum Lord rent because the bottom has dropped out of manufacturing. Fire sales everywhere... the whole system is swirling the bowl as resource prices tank due to over-supply ... and nobody is buying new ships because they don't have time to PVP and the aforementioned crappy resource prices mean they can no longer achieve their minimum ISK/hour revenues.

Gankings go up as more and more corps turn to piracy to "pay the bills"... and CCP is flooded with record levels of complaints and petitions asking for reimbursements for any number of gank-related "that's not fair" type reasons.

It's like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... this will not end well... but a very few people will make a vast sum of ISK on the misery of others.... because "Greed Is Good".

Or not.

Low end minerals

This, this, so many times this.

So much short term demand for minerals as people rush to get battleships stockpiles built pre-Crius.

I would shortsell Trit, tech 2 ammo and Process decryptors, given the chance. Oh, and a couple of specific tech 2 modules.

According to the data we have posted on forums 22july.

I would speculate that PLEX prices will crash hard.

The industry changes may in the short term make it harder for the less than super serious industrialists to earn their keep, until they and the market have had a chance to adapt a bit. Some indy players are then likely to fund their activities through sale of PLEX, while other players simultaneously will be less inclined to buy for similar reasons: Lowered income due to changes to many form of PvE activities, like the reprocessing nerf to missions etc. For the individual player the effects may be small, yet the combined effect summed over all of New Eden could be quite noticeable.

Slightly reduced demand and slightly increased supply may be all that is needed to topple the PLEX market. We already know from fanfest that a good majority of all PLEX' bought are for 'investment' purposes, IE. an attempt to counter inflation by players with lots of ISK to spare, not for cashing in for game time.

Once the investors see the PLEX prices dropping noticeably from their current near-all-time-high, many will attempt to reduce their losses by selling, further increasing supply and putting enormous pressure on the price. Rinse, repeat, crash. We currently see the PLEX price being more or less stable for about a month, though undulating a bit due to CCP's recent PLEX sale and other effects, so we may already be giving 'er as much as she will take.

... because capital building in lowsec has been decimated (reprocessing & facilities).

I expect most prices to rise once people see the increased manufacturing costs.

I'd argue that the best profit comes from trading them. ME/PE research or copying a few types can just about scrap 10% monthly ROI though.