Crazy Yuri
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Posted - 2007.09.03 19:38:00 -
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Aw, c'mon at least the graphs were pretty! 
Its not called the dismal science for nothing. Akita brings up a good point, I hope our Economy Doctor plays a trader character in the game or is deeply invovled in the industrial part of the game. I might even suggest our good Doctor fly a hulk or some mining barge and mine a few rocks too.
 Originally by: Akita T
Edited by: Akita T on 03/09/2007 18:58:41
Ok, I just finished reading (and re-reading) the entire devblog and the conclusion ?
I am severely dissapointed.
Sure, a few nice graphs, some decent analysis on the overall state of the mineral market, some interesting points... but overall, ignoring some of the basic facts of the mineral market in EVE, which throws out the window a good portion of his analysis.
The good doctor seems to have not read up on the SOURCES of minerals (and especially tritanium) in the economy, the way mineral prices are interconnected and the reason for the "underdevelopement" of the lowend (and again, espcially tritanium) market in remote regions.
Here's a hint for the good doctor : endless supply of tritanium (and other lowends) in Empire space through reprocessing of NPC-sold goods.
Also, one huge factor the doctor seems to ignore (or at least, that's what we're led to believe, that he ignores it, if he doesn't, my appologies) about "volume traded" and "value traded" on the open market is the fact that a good deal of the trades made are actually made by traders and resellers, and that since its "discovery" and up until the "refining nerf" the compression market replaces a lot of the lowend mineral market.
When talking about the mineral market and each mineral, one just CAN'T ignore the huge number of "compressed minerals" changing hands in form of modules.
Really, the doctor should spend less time with the database dumps and a LOT more time conversing with the regulars in the Market forum section.
He has a lot of things to learn if he plans on not making such major mistakes in the future.
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P.S. I may have sounded harsher as I meant to.
Yes, there's a wealth of information in there, but that's all the useful info this devblog has for the "experienced" players.
Sure, for the ones that just PvP or run missions, it's probably major news, but not for those that were interested in trading and manufacture, nothing new here except the graphs.
And the suggestion about the doctor coming into the market forums (and make his presence felt there) was not meant as an insult or anything like that, but rather as advice combined with an invitation (plus the cold hard truth about the reason why he should do so).
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