But once we run out of that I'm assuming prices will go up to compensate for higher production costs.

the new increase actually removes a lot of isk from the game.
Would it be possible that we'll see deflation in the long run and prices for everything coming down?

Taking everything you've said into account and acknowledging your scenario of an economy depreciating, I just can't see how it can happen. Inflation has been the way of the economy well before Crius and the new ISK sinks introduced will do little to reverse it.

It'll be more difficult for newer players to cope with the changes because of the aforementioned ISK sinks that particularly hit people hard in high sec. Factor in that they have also have a disadvantage brawling it out in the team auctions because they just don't have the capital to do so. Same goes with researching blueprints, albeit higher ore yield should help offset the disadvantages of an unresearched blueprint.

You can expect less engagement from these players in industry, and the game as a whole while buying power for players is still a problem and will continue to be.

Have you seen mineral price trends lately? Trit has gone down by about 20% BEFORE the tax took place

All in anticipation of the better yield in Crius - I can imagine why people would want to dump their inventory for the best price possible before Crius.

But take a look at anything else player created - I'd bet that the price is higher on that item than it was a month before.

Right now I am trying to test the market direction for minerals by market making, guess what? I am buying way more than selling!

Probably a good idea considering I've staked my position that prices on player manufactured goods will be going up in continuation with inflation trends. Thanks for proving my point.

What the? Are you a noob? I am telling you that I am buying more eg. players are selling their minerals. Inflation levels will go down!

Unrelated personal insult aside, you're talking about one market; minerals. To say that the trend of minerals will dictate in one-hundred-percent correlation with every other market pertaining to player manufactured goods is laughable. While the two markets are related and have influence on one another, there is a limit to where that influence ends.

So let's break it down step by step.

Minerals are the result of mining, a profession made more widely available to people including newer players because of the low requirements - you don't need researched blueprints, you don't need to pour over spreadsheets, and with the incoming expansion, you don't need to bid on some weird mining boosting team for your system to make sure you're getting the most bang for whatever buck you have.

Mining is easy, thus more players are inclined to mine and turn it over than to use it for further industry projects. And with the release of the Crius expansion and the higher yields that follow, mining is even more encouraged, meaning that minerals will become a buyer's market: stock is high, price is low.

On the manufacturing side of things, Crius has made it more difficult financially for players to manufacture goods from these minerals, meaning fewer players are involved and fewer goods will be produced, resulting in a lower stock, further contributing to the overall inflation of the economy.

Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to say that the mineral market isn't tied completely to the hip of the markets player created goods compose and can go in the opposite direction of the economy in whole.

Unrelated personal insult aside, you're talking about one market; minerals. To say that the trend of minerals will dictate in one-hundred-percent correlation with every other market pertaining to player manufactured goods is laughable. While the two markets are related and have influence on one another, there is a limit to where that influence ends.

So let's break it down step by step.

Minerals are the result of mining, a profession made more widely available to people including newer players because of the low requirements - you don't need researched blueprints, you don't need to pour over spreadsheets, and with the incoming expansion, you don't need to bid on some weird mining boosting team for your system to make sure you're getting the most bang for whatever buck you have.

Mining is easy, thus more players are inclined to mine and turn it over than to use it for further industry projects. And with the release of the Crius expansion and the higher yields that follow, mining is even more encouraged, meaning that minerals will become a buyer's market: stock is high, price is low.

On the manufacturing side of things, Crius has made it more difficult financially for players to manufacture goods from these minerals, meaning fewer players are involved and fewer goods will be produced, resulting in a lower stock, further contributing to the overall inflation of the economy.

Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to say that the mineral market isn't tied completely to the hip of the markets player created goods compose and can go in the opposite direction of the economy in whole.

You need to see how fast is building now.Its almost absurd something that used to take 2.5 days now takes 6 hours

If that doesn't crash the whole market hard I don't know what will.Profits will become so slim only the baddest and biggest will survive.

You need to see how fast is building now.Its almost absurd something that used to take 2.5 days now takes 6 hours

If that doesn't crash the whole market hard I don't know what will.Profits will become so slim only the baddest and biggest will survive.

You are right up to this point "On the manufacturing side of things, Crius has made it more difficult financially for players to manufacture goods from these minerals, meaning fewer players are involved and fewer goods will be produced, resulting in a lower stock, further contributing to the overall inflation of the economy."

Because CCP is not taking minerals away as payment, they are charging you a tax in isk!
Hence even thou mineral requirements are higher, the tax overpowers this by a lot as seen in reduced mineral prices!
Unless the market is wrong, and I highly doubt it, then trends will continue, its already starting with ships, with salvaged materials and their producs, look it up.

If the higher bpo mineral requirements cost was higher than the tax then prices wouldn't go down, they would remain stable or go up if the tax was much lower, but its not, its a solid 10%! Which will eat isk with every single production and market cicle. The effects are only beggining today and look at the prices already.

And that ISK is made up in markup by manufacturers, further contributing to price hikes.

Maybe but take a moment to think how much time it will take to small scale producers to see they are doomed.My guess long time.It could be a while before we see normal prices.Or you might as well be right i guess only time will show.

I don't get where are you seeing increases in job times. I am getting lower times, can you explain?

Certainly things are much faster to produce but the existing stockpiles are build pre-cruis where invention used to take 1hour and 15 mins for your average module for example.Right now invention of 10run of that module takes 5!!! hours.So im not really sure where this could go.If the inventor playerbase is lower atm we might as well see increase in build times because lets face it people get on after work they won't stay for 10hours just to get a 2nd batch.But people can also counter this with more invention alts developed in the future like i said its complicated.

The increase in invention time has no impact whatsoever, in fact, you'll probably have even more T2 BPCs lying around waiting for manufacturing alts to be able to build it.

Pre-crius, I had 1 POS, only 10 advanced labs. I can only do 30 invention job for every 1.25 hour.
Now? I can do 150 invention job for every 1.75 hours.