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Is 'war supplier' an actual role in Eve?
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Chopper Rollins
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
#21 - 2017-04-08 01:02:05 UTC
Many lowsec denizens are very lazy.
Also, in the busier areas a good percentage play while drunk.
This means that losses can be higher than would be expected.
Conflicts over moons or POCOs are a good source of larger ship loss.

A key point is a ship or a mod is just what it is, but where it is when it's needed is important, people commonly pay 15% higher price not to have to travel three jumps. If the mods, rigs and ammo are right there, even better.

Which reminds me, consider combat ships, rigs, mods, drones, probes and ammo as one chunk. Sell things that are needed to equip other things you sell. The more T2 the better. Faction too.
Hauler hulls might be needed, but cargo expanders and warp core stabs being available makes them run out the door. Command centers shipped to low will move, but warp core stabs can go for 5 million a piece to adventurous but inexperienced schmucks who need to avoid dem ebil lowsec piwats haunting the undock.
It's marvellous to shoot people, see them buy replacements or even their own loot from you on the market, you can modify market orders while moving a tornado between bookmarks. Determine where people land on station straight from gates and suffer that "approaching docking perimeter" jazz that kills people without instadock bookmarks.

You haven't lived in lowsec until you've made enough friends, er contacts, to start a war and sell to both sides.





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Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2017-04-08 05:02:01 UTC
Not really, trade hasn't really developed along the same lines as it would in RL because of the emphasis on protectionism and slaughtering anyone who goes near your systems.

You could train up some JF's on alts, join a bunch of alliances with those alts and do it that way but the likelihood of you being granted access to citadels and station outside of alliance / coalition you are part of is pretty unlikely.

The Frog Industries group has managed to gain access though so its not entirely impossible.

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Tam Arai
Mi Pen Rai
#23 - 2017-04-08 10:59:48 UTC
use something like zkill to find out where and what is being lost a lot. supply that need
Mesacc
New Big Dog Mining
#24 - 2017-04-08 13:10:32 UTC
Charley Varrick wrote:
If EVE were the type of game where ships had quality based on the crafting players skill or the minerals that went in to them had varying qualities I could see a few players becoming big time dealers. As is, anyone can just look at the market and buy the cheapest one on the spot, all exactly the same.


This has always bugged be about EvE. There is nothing unique about any of the things we build. Any product I want to manufacture and sell is exactly the same as all the others being manufactured by everyone else. If you don't have 20+million skill points in market trading and manufacturing then your better off selling the resources. Even if you do have the skills then be prepared to play the .01 isk war with the 1000 other players trying to sell the exact same thing.
Salvos Rhoska
#25 - 2017-04-08 14:40:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
HS/Jita/Forge is the NS proxy market and production ground.

Once you figure out how that works, you can profit from it until it runs EVE into the ground.

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