Market Discussions

I've noticed that across all the manufacturing materials are on the rise. Is it a rise in demand or a drop in supply?

80% of my manufacturing is rigs. Salvage mats are up too. Contaminated nanite compound has gone from 5800 to 7500 in the past two weeks. Other mats are on the rise too.

I have a theory on this, but I need to position myself in the market first before disclosing it. Several items have gone up 5-10% already and I feel they can go up further - other items I expect to *drop* due to a shift in what is the limiting factor of certain types of production.

As for the person making rigs - GTFO that market, it's going to end in tears soon. I've already sold all my Augmentation decryptors (the only exposure I had to the rig production market) and I sold them all into the hype. There is major overproduction of T2 rigs right now.

This.

If you take a look at Dodixie market, you will see, that number of sell orders droped to 50% since the start of the year, where number of buy orders is still at 2/3. Actuall market offer is really poor, some local markets like Orvolle droped even further. Less players in game means less offer. Less offer... well you know what it means.

This is not a spike. It is a clear tendency over this year.

A combination of watching discussions in the Science and Industry forums (one in particular) and watching the market for Augmentation decryptors (a decryptor that is almost useless outside of T2 rig production, but is amazing there).

I felt bad buying a tech 2 rig for personal use recently because all my market instincts were screaming "DO NOT TOUCH THIS MARKET IT'S GOING TO CRASH" until I realised how irrelevant that was on a rig I was intending to use.

From my understanding being a rig builder and an explorer, I see far less competition at the exploration end right now.

Going from a very competitive to blows low and null to finding multiple sites uncontested, of course this is only my own little world but I do feel there is far less exploration taking place at the moment.

People who used to think mining their own minerals made them free apparently.

Well I'm a bit better positioned in the market now so I'll explain what will increase and what will not.

Some goods are limited by the number of player hours spent harvesting them. Example: Minerals. Call these time constrained goods. As the main ISK faucet is ratting bounties, ISK falls in this category.

Some are limited by the number of characters spent harvesting them. Example: PI goods, science slots. Call these account constrained goods.

And some are limited by the number of resource nodes in the game. Example: Moongoo.


As player numbers contract, I expect the less invested players to be more likely to leave the game. As such I expect average playtime per account to increase.

As a result, account constrained goods will increase in value relative to time constrained and node constrained goods.

I may have just spent an eleven figure sum on PI materials.