Metaller
Ocean Dynamics
Dark Matter Coalition
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Posted - 2007.09.04 16:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Especially in 0.0 where (if they actually bothered to mine low ends) could be wholly self sufficient.
Sorry to tell you but here you are completly wrong.
And as for the question about the low end increase is, here are some answers to this:
when the drone regions were opened low end minerals started to increase in price very strong. The reason for this is that at that time the belts in the new regions where bugged, and the amount of the ore, especially for low ends like veld or scordite was way too low to mine, cause you be spend more time in your barge moving from one rock to another. So mining low ends in that regions was not possible.
The Alloys didnt gave much low ends either, cause the alloys from battleships dropped nearly no low ends, and the amount from frigs/cruisers was way too low to be effective.
Another point was that the drone regions had 0 stations in them at that time, but they are somewhat necessary to make a living out in 0.0, so all alliance who moved there started building outposts which brought up a huge demand for low ends at the same time they were missing. My alliance considered mining trit for our first outpost, but just not doable.
Then when the alloys composition where changed the drone regions suddenly got really ALOT of tritanium and pyerite which clears that prices of them are stabilising. If it would be possible to move them to empire however from there really efficient, prices would be dropping very fast i guess. I usually rat, now t2 production too, but my hangar contains like 40mil trit just lying around. And i guess im far away from being the only one that has enough trit and pyerite lying in his or her hangar to build tons of battleships.
Other minerals like iso nocxium or all high ends are present there too, which resutled in that even none industrialist players are now producing ships and stuff to get rid of their minerals.
As isogen drops in good amount from motley compounds which can be gained in high numbers from drone bs, the price of isogen is staying stable or decreasing slowly.
The biggest problem however is Mexallon:
Like i said above everyone starts producing stuff now, to get rid of their trit and pyerite and some of the high ends. But the problem is the amount of mexallon in the drone regions is really poor. You have to kill hundreds or so of drone bs to get the mexallon to build one battleship, thats not very time efficient. And mining is not option either, as there are nearly no roids which contain mexallon. In G5 region there are only 2 systems with gneiss roids as far as i know, and they dont contain much mex. Not very time efficient too. So self sufficiency is not possible, at least in the drone regions. This leads to mexallon prices in G5 region going way above the 30 isk per unit.
So the only conclusion is that mexallon has to be imported from empire. Which leads to a very high demand and explains the rise of the mex price.
Another thing for the low end mineral market to mention is that is much harder for it to resovle regional differences as you need way more cargospace to move stuff, even when compressed.
Also i cant wait for the analyse of minerals in hangar. I guess we are seeing some big suprises there. I guess the drone region inhabitants will have huge stock piles of them, that could have the ability to crash market prices. But since compression is somewhat complicated, and with the upcoming nerf of mineral compression, it will be even harder, since there will be a way to move compressed ore, but we in the drone regions dont ore to compress, we have minerals or alloys.
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