EVE General Discussion

Now let's hope they can turn their eyes onto other bots as well

/c

And this is as it should be. If you are the one taking the time to train all those skills to run the acquisition and research of BPO's/BPCs, set up POSes and fuel them, acquire minerals and assemble them into finished products, then there should be a fair bit of isk flowing your way. In the real world corporations that are vertically integrated in this manner are usually pretty secure in their markets. After all, all the "consumer" is doing is pressing F1 to shoot rats, and calling for reps when he needs them. So pay for your ammo, make a neat little profit, and hand over the rest of your cash to the manufacturers for your shiny bling bling you crave so much.




Prices were already on the rise due to the increase in mexallon prices since the tier 3 battlecruisers came out. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Miners do not have to increase their prices because of course their only input once their capital outlay is done is time (and mining crystals whose price fluctuations are negligible). The amount of time required to make a given ship has not changed, nor have the mineral contents of said ships. Therefore the only reason a miner-manufacturer would have to raise prices for ships he makes is because he feels that the market can bear a higher price and because he expects higher prices himself.

Prices for minerals are rising now out of sheer speculation (there are huge mineral stockpiles held by manufacturers so it's far too soon to say that actual supply and demand is moving the price) but the price should be more sticky to the high side as there should be less competition to sell minerals now. Unless of course the botters were only manufacturing with their minerals and not dumping raw minerals on their market - in which case we'll see changes first in the products they used to mass produce.

Anyway it will be interesting to observe.