Muthsera
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Posted - 2006.05.02 23:25:00 -
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I was in Jita today. It's been two weeks since last time.
And as always, I bloody hate the place. But thats rather beside the point. Since it's not my feelings for the place that is the point of this tread. But rather if Jita is becomming a new Yulai.
Everytime I got something to sell I always head towards Jita and everytime I got something to buy I head there, strangely enough, to. Like I did Yulai earlier. I know Amarr and Oursulert and Rens is around. But I can't be bothered to go there. Even when I'm in the deep south. I go to Jita to sell stuff. Don't bother stopping in Amarr. Why? Good question. As I bloody hate the place, jita that is. So why whould bother going there?
The awnser is availabillity. It's simply easier to get the results you want there. It's easier to sell all the gear you have. And it offset some of the extra time it takes to go from Amarr to Jita. I simply get better result in Jita over Amarr. When I'm in the north it's no contest. Jita is the hub. Either your in Venal, Vale, Pure Blind, Germinate, Tribute, etc, doesn't matter. All the northern regions hub to Jita. Probobly 1/3 of eve regions hub to Jita naturally.
Also my main is in a heavily agressive corp that often have wars. And my bookmarks tend to dictate where I can go. So it tend to leave out Rens and Oursulert.
Now I really expect ppl to come forward and say: "Your so wrong, there is plenty of really good markets around, you just need to go outside of the Jita hub". Well I do realise that. But again, why bother going to a place and spend so much more time finding the right one when you can go to one place, spend 1/10th of the time doing it and still get the same price that you whould often get somewhere else.
And it's quite clear that many think just like me on this. Seeing that it's nearly 500 ppl in there at any given time.
Now. I see some of the goal to desentralice Yulai, was to take some of the pressure off the node. And to utilise other markets. Now, I think we need to ask ourselves if this really have been achived? I don't think it have been to be honnest. Even though I recognice that it probobly whould have been a lot worse if Yulai have remained as it was.
Moving the Agents from Jita also helped a bit whit the pressure on it. But not as much as one hoped I think.
So whats the solution to this. Should we just let Jita bevelop into the Superhub that Yulai was? Becus I think it's really heading there. Or can something be prevented to make it more attractive to use hubs like rens and amarr.
1. Personally I don't think a Eve-wide superhup is possible to stop. On the pure principle of availabillity. And we need to keep that in mind. Should that be Jita? Well. Not nessiserily.
2. Can desentralised hubs work? Or are they working now as intended? Should we change things to make it more attractive to use?
3. Is the current system working well enough not to mess whit it?
4. Could we do intensives. ie. Giving bonuses to develop sertain items in one hub. As an example. Ships in amarr whould be cheaper than other places. And minerals in another, Modules in a third.
Just and idea, and not nessiserily a good one. But I think it's idea like this, that is needed to keep superhubs from developing.
Any thoughts on this?
My thoughts
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