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Joebarchuck
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:04:00 -
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I've seen during the last 3 month, prices of many tech II drop so much, it divided the price by 6 for some.
Example: Tech II heavy launchers went from 12 million to barely 3.8 million now in less than 3 month.
This is just one of the dozens of items that dropped drastically and on these forums people speak of inflation... WHAT INFLATION???
Is there a reason for these price drops? Can it go back up again or will it just continue to drop? Just looking for opinions here.
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Frug
Zenithal Harvest
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:06:00 -
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Umm...
I'm just guessing, but... Invention?
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ToxicFire
Phoenix Knights Dark Nebula Galactic Empire
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:07:00 -
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Most common inflation thats talked about is in the common minerals market, while low end minerals have dived recently, but the T2 market drop is all down to invention kicking into full swing, they'll bottom at the cost of (invention+production+reasonable profit margin derived from competition) In essence T2 market will become very similar to the T1 market Sig removed as it lacks EVE-related content. Mail [email protected] if you have questions. -Hango
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Von Druid
Black Omega Security
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:07:00 -
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Edited by: Von Druid on 05/05/2007 23:03:42 The introduction of invention with Revelations and the improvements in the following patches have made production of T2 items available to people even without BPOs, which has drastically increased competition.
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Marquis Dean
Energy.
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:11:00 -
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One of CCPs better moves. Shame it took so long mind.
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Joebarchuck
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:11:00 -
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Yes, it must be true that invention brings prices down but to go from 12 million on a launcher to less than 4 million in three month means the high tech stuff is now available to anyone. It is time to bring in more expensive Tech III modules to compensate for the low tech II cost.
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Del Narveux
Obsidian Angels Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:12:00 -
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Yes, invention is the reason why. Suddenly everyone and his brother has T2 build ability, so theres huge price wars. Definitely needed, but TBH CCP overdid it...Im not much into t2 myself but it seems t2 is basically becoming just like t1 now (lots of stupid people trying to walmart each other). _________________ [SAK] Alumnus--And Proud Of It! -- aka Cpt Bogus Is that my torped sig cloaking your base?
Originally by: Wrangler Well, at least we have forum PvP..
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Jalen Rose
Bre-X Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:34:00 -
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Edited by: Jalen Rose on 05/05/2007 23:30:39 Another side effect of low t2 prices is the meta mod market for t1 has also crashed. cheap t2 for the masses almost makes t1 redundant at this point.
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Father Weebles
North Face Force
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:35:00 -
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arazu jumped 30 mil in a matter of days
"Welcome to EVE, where inflation is out of control."
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Firid Soulbane
Empyreum
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:39:00 -
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Originally by: Joebarchuck It is time to bring in more expensive Tech III modules to compensate for the low tech II cost.
Priceless remark
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Gariuys
Evil Strangers Inc.
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:40:00 -
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Originally by: Joebarchuck Yes, it must be true that invention brings prices down but to go from 12 million on a launcher to less than 4 million in three month means the high tech stuff is now available to anyone. It is time to bring in more expensive Tech III modules to compensate for the low tech II cost.
Lol interesting conclusion there. If you think tech2 is too cheap, buy faction, problem solved.
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Marquis Dean
Energy.
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:47:00 -
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Force Recons have gone right up, possibly because CovOps cloaks have fallen from 70mil to 20mil.
Don't really know why though, I don't see why Recons are being invented less than HACs or CBCs.
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Del Narveux
Obsidian Angels Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.05.05 23:55:00 -
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Therye not, its just everyone rushed for the cloaks becaues they saw big green dollar signs everywhere. But now cloaks are dirt cheap again (finally!) and the huge number of people who said "hey, Id love a nice recon ship but no way am I spending the cost of a fully fitted BS on the cloak" are rushing out to snap em up.
Recons will fall back in line in a few weeks, once the initial delayed demand wears out. Its not a ship that dies very often so supply will dominate very soon. _________________ [SAK] Alumnus--And Proud Of It! -- aka Cpt Bogus Is that my torped sig cloaking your base?
Originally by: Wrangler Well, at least we have forum PvP..
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Joebarchuck
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:01:00 -
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Originally by: Gariuys
Originally by: Joebarchuck Yes, it must be true that invention brings prices down but to go from 12 million on a launcher to less than 4 million in three month means the high tech stuff is now available to anyone. It is time to bring in more expensive Tech III modules to compensate for the low tech II cost.
Lol interesting conclusion there. If you think tech2 is too cheap, buy faction, problem solved.
Faction items are way overpriced as they are not dictated in the same way then other modules for sale. The reason is you cannot invent them so the supply is limited but surely a gap is now missing in between faction and Tech II that is why we need Tech III as soon as tomorrow...
   
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Del Narveux
Obsidian Angels Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:06:00 -
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What I wanna see with tech 3 is that anyone with very good skills can make them (but I mean really good skills, for those who want to specialize in such stuff), long time to make, and they require components that are 'rationed' to people at a given rate. Implementation wise I could see a new agent type that works like RD except you only get one of them, and they give you X number of components per week. So the supply is there, but very limited and everyone gets some automatically to encourage people to trade the components, and have a sort of cottage industry thing going on.
Basically I want to see tech 3 be a 'pride and joy' type item set, rather than mass produced by a few rich people. _________________ [SAK] Alumnus--And Proud Of It! -- aka Cpt Bogus Is that my torped sig cloaking your base?
Originally by: Wrangler Well, at least we have forum PvP..
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Wendat Huron
Lupus Industries
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:12:00 -
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It'll get worse before it gets better, once the lottery is fully tapped massive amounts of datacores will flood the market but once those are gone prices will start to climb some again.
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Grainsalt
Free Corp
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:13:00 -
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Edited by: Grainsalt on 06/05/2007 00:10:28 Personally I think this has been a good effect on the t1 market.. lots of t1 BPO's have been purchased for BPC's and production. Mass marketers / producers with little time sub-contracting t1 item production and t1 BPC creation to third parties. Is a win-win situation for all. Ok, t1 direct marketing for non-t2 production is slower.. But.. t2 requires having skill to fly in that area so alot of people still fly t1 ships, or in the example of rare items t1 base (meta) such as Shield boost amps or strip miners etc.
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Grainsalt
Free Corp
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:14:00 -
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Originally by: Wendat Huron It'll get worse before it gets better, once the lottery is fully tapped massive amounts of datacores will flood the market but once those are gone prices will start to climb some again.
Yes, but then once those are used up, the prices will balance again. ---
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Nicholas Barker
Caldari Black Bands
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:23:00 -
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is it too late to sell all of my tech2 BPOs? --- - We lost that fight - Quick, smack'em in local or they'll think they won! |

Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:39:00 -
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Originally by: Joebarchuck Example: Tech II heavy launchers went from 12 million to barely 3.8 million now in less than 3 month.
Awful example. They were blatently overpriced at 12 mil, and 4 million is still a great example of rampent price gourging.
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James Lyrus
Lyrus Associates Betrayal Under Mayhem
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:40:00 -
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T2 prices have dropped, true.
But... correct me if I'm wrong (and I know someone will) but aren't they _still_ over 10 times the price of t1? If not more, in some cases?.
10x price, for 20% increase in effectiveness (and harder fittings) still seems on the high side.
or perhaps you're still used to insane T2 prices, where you buy single mods for the price of a battlecruiser?
No, I'm afraid I think that was broken, for a long time. A lot of T2 BPOs were, and still are to a certain extend, 'I win at EVE now'. Now, I do think they should be good, and worth the effort of acquiring, but ... well, lets keep it in proportion eh?
IMO T2 BPOS and invention should be profitable. However at the point when you start seeing absolutely insance price markups like that, then ... well, perhaps it's worth considering if 'something is wrong'.
Being able to T2 fit a cruiser, for less money than the price of the cruiser, I don't see as a bad thing at all. Being able to fly a T2 ship, without having to sell a couple of GTCs to afford it, again, I don't see a problem with.
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SiJira
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Posted - 2007.05.06 00:45:00 -
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the shall halve and drop in price again ____ __ ________ _sig below_ the jet cans are made so that people that dont mine can get free ore
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Onchas Erivvia
The Andromeda Directorate SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.06 02:11:00 -
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Originally by: Joebarchuck Is there a reason for these price drops?
Mercoxit price drop, invention, and the cartel break-up.
Quote: Can it go back up again or will it just continue to drop?
Seeing as prices fluctuate with supply and demand forces, it could go back up. I don't think we've hit the bottom of the price curve just yet.
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Kil'Roy
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Posted - 2007.05.06 02:41:00 -
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I think many things have affected the Tech II market, overpricing of some modules in the past one of then. What you see here is a natural correction from that and the involvement of others, who previously had no access to Tech II manufacturing.
Give it 6 months to stablize, and then the Devs will correct it with limiting the drop rate of skills, lowering the success rate, or upping the componet requirement.
Honestly, why would you expect this market to not act like real world markets? :P They crash all the time.
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Vanye Inovske
Two Brothers Mining Corp. The Sundering
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Posted - 2007.05.06 02:47:00 -
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Originally by: Maya Rkell Awful example. They were blatently overpriced at 12 mil, and 4 million is still a great example of rampent price gourging.
That's just silly. At 4 million the profit margin on inventing them is getting pretty thin, probably down to 20-30% if you ignore the (very substantial) startup costs. There are T1 products that can be built for better margins. Or do you mean actual bpo owners are gouging at 4M? That's equally silly. Sure, the build cost with a bpo for them is probably below a million isk, but why on earth would bpo holders sell at a price lower than the going rate? That's not gouging, that's just good business practice. Gouging is when you jack your price when customers have no option not to buy, as for example in the case of selling bottled drinking water in the aftermath of a hurricane that wipes out potable water distribution. Since nobody is forced to buy T2 heavy launchers, selling at the going market rate cannot be gouging.
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Gladia Horusthu
Gallente Anything Inc.
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Posted - 2007.05.06 02:55:00 -
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One of the devblogs on invention being introduced (it was a while ago) stated that T2 is ready to go into mass production, to prepare the way for the next tech level to be introduced.
The devs have always encouraged limited monopolies for those who work at things, so I'd imagine that t3 will start out just as limited in production as t2 was under the bpo lottery only system.
Prices will continue to crash on T2, and that will give everyone time to prep thier wallets for pursuing t3 items and production capacity to the best of their abilities.
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SumDum
AirHawk Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.06 03:06:00 -
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Competition is essential for the survival of a long-term economy. CCP has made recent changes which have opened up the ability for competition in the T2 market, and I for one am grateful.
There will always be adjustments to the way the economy works, otherwise like IRL economies eventually collapse without making adjustments here and there.
Also, many people seem to base their entire frame of reference for the economy on Jita pricing. IMHO, this is a very short sighted and narrow view of things. There are plenty of opportunities to reallocate products to various markets and create new and different ways to sell your products with higher markups than Jita pricing.
From my personal experience in 0.0 I noticed that it was much easier to fly to Jita sometimes and pay Jita prices for something, but many times the prices were in an acceptable range for other items that I would purchase in deep 0.0 instead.
Diversify, adapt to the market changes, there are ways too do it. It's always easier to complain that the bottom is falling out of the market, but people shouldn't own money trees, come on how much fun can that actually be. There should be small margins of profit for some items, large margins for others and a wide range of prices across the Eve universe all controlled by players.
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Kodiak31415
An Eye For An Eye Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.05.06 03:30:00 -
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Invention has driven the price down. But the cost of production on a researched t2 bpo is much less than that on the BPC's made by invention. I would say that invention is working exactly as planned. Good move CCP.
As far as T3, it's called faction loot and its already here. Maybe CCP could put faction loot on the market, maybe in a special section or give them special marks to ID them easily? _______________________________ Pleese exucse any seplling erroos in this psot |

Sadist
Rage and Terror Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.05.06 04:21:00 -
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Originally by: Joebarchuck I've seen during the last 3 month, prices of many tech II drop so much, it divided the price by 6 for some.
Example: Tech II heavy launchers went from 12 million to barely 3.8 million now in less than 3 month.
This is just one of the dozens of items that dropped drastically and on these forums people speak of inflation... WHAT INFLATION???
Is there a reason for these price drops? Can it go back up again or will it just continue to drop? Just looking for opinions here.
Before you open your mouth and make youself like an idiot. Look up the definition of inflation. тттттттттттт
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Namingway
Important Yet Underrated Video Game Characters
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Posted - 2007.05.06 05:00:00 -
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Originally by: Del Narveux Yes, invention is the reason why. Suddenly everyone and his brother has T2 build ability, so theres huge price wars. Definitely needed, but TBH CCP overdid it...Im not much into t2 myself but it seems t2 is basically becoming just like t1 now (lots of stupid people trying to walmart each other).
Good.
Ovuer stated that T2 is the new baseline for most people, and the old setup wasn't cutting it.
And having a T2 BPO is still a very large advantage.
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