Guillame Herschel
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Posted - 2007.12.14 23:35:00 -
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Edited by: Guillame Herschel on 14/12/2007 23:36:00 Jita is the main market hub in the game because players made it that way. Players made it that way because it's very, very hard to market your wares in this game in four different regions. It's hard to market your wares in four different regions because transporting bulk material is a giant pain in the posterior. So if you're going to transport raw material anywhere, you're going transport it somewhere close to where you intend to use it to build stuff to take to market. And if you can acquire your raw material near where you intend to use it to build and market your wares, so much the better. And so over time, raw materials, intermediate materials, and finished products mostly wind up in Jita.
INTERBUS ANNOUNCES TRANSPORTATION BREAKTHROUGH 2007.12.07 18:30:00 At their regularly scheduled Quarterly Report press conference, Interbus officials made a surprise announcement about a breakthrough in their long-rumored research program into large-scale long-distance matter transference technology. They have succeeded in scaling the process up to industrial quantities, and can transmit millions of tons of bulk material across hundreds of light years in just a few seconds. The process involves the creation of a special class of very high energy wormholes. The generators are large and bulky and must be installed in special space stations dedicated to the purpose. Due to the high energies and quantum fields the material is subjected to during transmission, only simple bulk materials are suitable for this transport method. That includes ore, refined minerals and raw unprocessed moon material. More complex items are unable to be transported by this system, and organic living things are completely out of the question, even theoretically.
Interbus intends to begin commercial development of this process with the first permanent matter transmission channel to be established at new Interbus stations anchored in Jita and Amarr. The second phase will establish two more endpoints in Oursulaert and Rens.
Users of the new system will be able to place movement orders much like the present galaxy-wide contracts system. Interbus intends to price the service according to bulk. The larger the material to be transmitted, the more economical the transmission is, on a kg per kg basis, and so customers with large bulk shipments are expected to reap the biggest discounts and be the biggest users. Interbus also intends to link their new stations in Jita, Oursulaert, Rens and Amarr with the market in those systems, so that customers in any one of those system would have access to purchase material available in any of the others, and setup a combined purchase and transmission contract to have it beamed to the customer. Of course only material suitable for transmission through the system will be visible to remote market shoppers.
(/me dons asbestos suit in anticipation ....) -- Guile can always trump hardware -- |