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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.08.03 13:00:00 -
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As I'm not a long term player I'm lacking long term experience about EVE market hubs. The question I'd like to ask all of you:
Why/How did Jita become what seems to be the main market hub?
Jits market importance must have grown over time... with advantages outweighting disadvantages.
Was it "just" the presence of ice belts in high sec which made Jita bloom initially?
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.08.03 14:04:00 -
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 Originally by: RaTTuS
may helpbut it's for lots of reasons
Thanks. Network Effect, Bandwagon Effect and Hotelling Effect fits it pretty much when it comes down to my personal choice of trading in Jita here and there these days.
Originally by: Caleb Ayrania
Some main player operators was forced to shift there when the Highway connections were removed and meta loot was introduced to the scc
Thanks for mentioning. I did not know about Yulai so far...
How did Jita come about?
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.08.03 14:44:00 -
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Originally by: SencneS
Jita doesn't need leaders now. About the only thing keeping Jita the main hub is Herd Instinct.
Herd instinct or leading industrialists feeding and milking the "Jita Herd" with priority? Probably it's two sides of the same medal.
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.08.03 22:54:00 -
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Originally by: SencneS
China picked Jita 4-4 with no real reason to do so.
I'm pretty sure "knowledge" in form of already existing player guides had an influence?!!
Originally by: Claire Voyant
I was around when Yulai was just beginning to take off, and as I recall the one thing that everyone went to Yulai for was to buy and sell implants. [..] I remember mining 1 or 2 jumps from Jita before it became big. The were some major producers that bought raw ore in huge quantities that attracted the miners, but I can't remember exactly which station.
Thanks for mentioning the "Implants Story"!
I remember being surprised seeing how empty Kusomonmon was compared to the Gallente belts I was dropped near at birth...
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.08.05 01:52:00 -
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Edited by: Lederstrumpf on 05/08/2010 01:52:12
Originally by: Diomedes Calypso
I'm curious.
What do people think would be the most "central" system for the most players to get to with the fewest jumps (all high sec jumps except those near the begining of a journey starting from null or low sec) ?
Inaro?
I'm used to do Jita->Hek->Rens->Amarr->TashMurkon->Dodixie->Arnon->Pakhshi->Luse->Stacmon->Jita "round trip" type of flights... and I chose Pakhshi to be my initial flight base.
Rental prices are cheap as there's near no mission running going on in Genesis... no mission running, no loot.
Arnon, Renyn, Oursulaert, Dodixie -- If those markets somehow would merge, I guess that area might have potential. Artificial region borders impose limits on free choice of marketplace locations, too... i think most regional markets are quite "central" in regards to their regions properties.
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