Remember when I said that the new Eve Online patch was going to cause market prices to tank on minerals? Well that didn't quite happen - but only because I didn't realize that the real miners only mine ice. The change was that with the huge ore holds on the Mack and Retriever, you can set up to mine and walk away. No need for a Hulk and a transport alt character in order to do your high-yield mining. Today I literally went to an ice field with my retriever, clicked to start mining and came back later to have 26 chunks of ice in my hold. Those 26 would have sold for close to $300k isk a month ago, now will go for around $120k due to the market saturation. Check out this graph to see what I mean about the price of ice. The component materials it refines into have seen a similar drop in value but not quite as severe:
No more Hulkageddon bounties.
ReplyDeleteCFC and NCdot are now fighting over tech moons, so the initial precipitous drop in the price of technetium was met fairly quickly with another spike.
That might mean that the recent drop in T1 ship prices will be short-lived. If T2 production remains expensive, the increased demand for T1 ships will drive prices up again.
The high sec ice fields are flooded with miners. Miners that would be mining something else. So go mine something else while everyone is mining ice.
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