I've noticed some prices for PI goods have been dropping lately. Anyone have any thoughts as to what may be causing this? How they might be over supplied...or if demand is starting to dry up for one reason or another.

There is also a bug in the PI scan and volume. Every now and then I log in to check my PI and I will have millions of raw mats over night. It's so very random it's not even something I can bug report because the bug report system is based on being able to replicate the bug and I have no idea what it's doing or how to replicate it.

I've noticed some prices for PI goods have been dropping lately. Anyone have any thoughts as to what may be causing this? How they might be over supplied...or if demand is starting to dry up for one reason or another.

I know of many people rolling alts just to do PI. The prices were bound to drop with this increasing supply and above noted demand decrease.

That isn't a bug, that is lower Planetology/ Advanced Planetology skills.

Without full Planetology skills, what you see on scans is not 100% accurate to what is actually there and total/hourly extractions estimates can be off in either directions.

In your case, there exist "nuggets". Tiny patches of extreme productivity that appear and vanish quickly. These patches are very small in size and tend not to show up at all on the scans of lower Planetology skilled colony builders. You very well may have accidentally put a few extractor heads on one of these nuggets, resulting in a metric F-load of goods.

From my understanding, Planetology IV and advanced Planetology IV will let you see nuggets. These nuggets are one of the incentives they put out there to encourage serious colony builders to invest even more skill points in the field.

Two things that could turn this around is a lot of 0.0 space changing hands ( and clean up operations being conducted on deep 0.0 POCOs) or a mentality shift from low sec inhabitants (ie that they start focusing on taking out the POCOs and/or hold their owners to ransom)

Implant BPCs would be an obvious choice for consuming the "biological" PI goods along with some minerals, salvage and moon goo.

Wouldnt that screw up the LP reward system too much for L4 runners? Or are you suggesting instead of LP giving a finished product instead having it seed the isk equiv ratio of a multi run bpc that could either be sold or built?

Another possibility is the fact that POS's are starting to be taken down.

I was talking to someone in null last night and they told me that the general isotope interdiction created by Hulkageddon has raised prices so much even THEY are taking down POS's.

I am sure I am going to hear the comment "costs are irrelevant, manufacturers just pass the costs along to the consumer" , but I am not believing that completely. I think there is a significant group of POS owners who may have said "enough".

EDIT: Point already posted.

Would anyone agree that it also could have a bit to do with the rising cost of fuel for towers, thus making running a POS less desirable therefore decreasing demand?

Etre can that you badly observed the history of the volume present in Sell order for 6 months
On numerous products the put on sale volumes fell(flopped) in fine December further to the fallen due of the orders, these stock are put back(handed) on sale only now, surement a player in break of game) resuming an introduced OPA the last year

you can blabling about 0.0 renter and checking your spy in paranoic eyes mode , me sur one think High market dont depend of gastric steams of the leaders alliance in nullsec

if you check some external tool site like http://www.evemarketeer.com you and check ingame book order you can see also
a manipulation quote in theire tool all the order of product are not reported (eg harpy product in jita , major stock are over 40m and the site remove it in theire database ) so dont trust in it with blind eyes

It is has to wonder if they try to protect the business of them customers based on macro

Ok I read this like 3 times. Bad google translate or something?