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Tommy Meow
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Posted - 2008.04.24 22:04:00 -
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I am just curious if I am the only one reprocessing Civilian AB units into 60 Units of Tritanium? Which, comes out, mind you, to 3.6 ISK/Unit for Tritanium.
Very nice indeed when one needs 500 Million units of tritanium with 500 sell orders in the region at 1 Million units each.... no travel even if overpaying a bit, at the moment at least.
Meaning that the whole shuttle removal hoopla was just so much bull-crap, and made life harder for so many of us who do use throwaway shuttles often.
Anyway, I am taking some bets that CCP will remove the reprocessing of the Civilian ABs as well with the next patch, so heads up to all of you who did not know that yet, go stock up at almost any station on a few million units and stick it to the man.
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.04.24 22:12:00 -
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Originally by: Tommy Meow Meaning that the whole shuttle removal hoopla was just so much bull-crap, and made life harder for so many of us who do use throwaway shuttles often.
Seriously, can people cry any more about this? If you just HAVE to have a shuttle so badly then pay for it. There is absolutely no reason manufacturers shouldn't profit off of shuttles just like they can on all other ships.
And of course civilian AB's will no longer reprocess at some point, maybe next patch, maybe the patch after that, etc. Does anyone think they will not be changed?
People should stockpile billions of trit now while they can, while it is cheap, it's going to hit 8-10 isk each when the AB's are removed! Buy buy buy and don't sell!
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Dark 'Shadow
Red Research and Developing
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Posted - 2008.04.24 22:12:00 -
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If they do indeed do that I will be a very happy person, it will make high sec mining all the more profitable 
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Tommy Meow
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Posted - 2008.04.24 22:31:00 -
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All I am saying is that CCP went out of its way to make it all hush.. hush and on the qt.. and then all the grad ole posts, even from the self proclaimed market experts like Shadrale above, and yet, all of it for naught - because they messes up! And did not remove the cap as they promised, and only screwed up the ease of travel for whole lot of people.
So now, I want all those who did not know that the Civilian ABs still cap tritanium at 3.6 to know that - so they can stock the hell up on it as much as they can, and bring the whole scrwd up system about.
I just want people to know they can still get tritanium at bellow 4.0 - so when the cap really is removed it will be years before tritanium ever goes above 4.2
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Ava Santiago
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.04.24 23:19:00 -
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Maybe it was about opening a new kind of market to players and had nothing to do with Trit prices?
And citing any of the "experts" in these forums .. is risky at best. Experts have an error rate... some experts are expert opinion providers and are merely experts at sounding confident.
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Ghreymar LaNayeur
Pariah Corp
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Posted - 2008.04.25 01:08:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle
Originally by: Tommy Meow Meaning that the whole shuttle removal hoopla was just so much bull-crap, and made life harder for so many of us who do use throwaway shuttles often.
Seriously, can people cry any more about this? If you just HAVE to have a shuttle so badly then pay for it. There is absolutely no reason manufacturers shouldn't profit off of shuttles just like they can on all other ships.
And of course civilian AB's will no longer reprocess at some point, maybe next patch, maybe the patch after that, etc. Does anyone think they will not be changed?
People should stockpile billions of trit now while they can, while it is cheap, it's going to hit 8-10 isk each when the AB's are removed! Buy buy buy and don't sell!
Its not the difference between paying 9k and 200k for a shuttle that we're complaining about, its the fact that theres not going to be someone manufacturing shuttles in every single station. Shuttles are much faster than noobships, and theres few things more annoying than losing a shuttle, docking up and finding out that the station you're in (and in fact no stations for several jumps) are selling shuttles. And when you're -10 and trying to make jumps across highsec, this happens alot.
Honnestly, they should just make noobships travel/align/warp as fast as bloody shuttles.
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Tommy Meow
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Posted - 2008.04.25 01:27:00 -
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Originally by: Ava Santiago Maybe it was about opening a new kind of market to players and had nothing to do with Trit prices?
And citing any of the "experts" in these forums .. is risky at best. Experts have an error rate... some experts are expert opinion providers and are merely experts at sounding confident.
Actually....
Originally by: CCP Dr.EyjoG ...The benefit from removing this price cap is that the price of tritanium will be more in line with the underlying demand for tritanium at any given time...
And...
Originally by: CCP Dr.EyjoG There was a side effect to this though (talking about the shuttles) û an artificial price cap of 3.6 ISK per unit of tritanium...
First of all, the removal of the cap on the tritanium market was indeed the goal, the sudden NPC-made Shuttle shortage, was meant to accomplish - as evident, quite clearly, from the above quotes - readily available, I might add, to anyone who reads the "Information Portal."
Second, it could have been done better, lets face it, they should have just nerfed the refine value of a shuttle, rather than take them completely out, anyway, this was a screwup of even bigger proportions because: the "fix" did not work, they forgot to nerf the Civilian ABs WHICH GIVE EXACT RATIO TRITANIUM/ISK AS SHUTTLES DO, but they did screwed up travel for many of us, in an already "travel-intensive" game.
On the other hand, I completely agree with you when it comes to certain so-called experts and their opinions.
Anyway, I am sure many were already aware of the Civilian Ab/Tritanium/Shuttle connection, not a big deal, I just wan to make sure it is widely known, so any nerf that comes will have minimal impact, and would not be felt for years to come, if people buy them up and stock up on tritanium.
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Kwint Sommer
Lothian Quay Industries
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Posted - 2008.04.25 02:22:00 -
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Originally by: Ava Santiago Maybe it was about opening a new kind of market to players and had nothing to do with Trit prices?
And citing any of the "experts" in these forums .. is risky at best. Experts have an error rate... some experts are expert opinion providers and are merely experts at sounding confident.
Listening to a guy that has no idea what he's talking about is risky at best....
Originally by: CCP Dr.EyjoG The benefit from removing this price cap is that the price of tritanium will be more in line with the underlying demand for tritanium at any given time...There was a side effect to this though (talking about the shuttles) û an artificial price cap of 3.6 ISK per unit of tritanium...
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EBANK Ricdic
Eve-Tech Savings n Loans
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Posted - 2008.04.25 02:47:00 -
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Originally by: Tommy Meow Shadrale above,
Once again with the incorrectly spelt name 
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.04.25 04:10:00 -
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Originally by: EBANK Ricdic
Originally by: Tommy Meow Shadrale above,
Once again with the incorrectly spelt name 
I just can't get any respect!
I sure hope no one is taking my first post seriously, not the part about speculating on trit obviously. The part about people being whining crybabies you should take seriously because I meant that part.
If there aren't enough shuttles circulated about then that is a marketing opportunity for someone. If the demand is truly there for a shuttle in every station then it should be a lucrative market. If the demand is indeed a heck of a lot lower than some here are making it sound then (which seems more likely) then the invisible hand will sort things out.
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Amarr Citizen 155
Alternative Methods Research Group
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Posted - 2008.04.25 04:20:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle
I just can't get any respect!
I sure hope no one is taking my first post seriously, not the part about speculating on trit obviously. The part about people being whining crybabies you should take seriously because I meant that part.
If there aren't enough shuttles circulated about then that is a marketing opportunity for someone. If the demand is truly there for a shuttle in every station then it should be a lucrative market. If the demand is indeed a heck of a lot lower than some here are making it sound then (which seems more likely) then the invisible hand will sort things out.
I agree with you and show you much respect Shardarle. I mean Shadale, Shardale, Shad arle, Shadarl, Shedarle, Shaquille O'Neal. Oh who knows the true spelling, I'll just stick with ass as its shorter and easier to spell. :p j/k
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Petyr Baelich
Taggart Transdimensional Virtue of Selfishness
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Posted - 2008.04.25 04:21:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle If there aren't enough shuttles circulated about then that is a marketing opportunity for someone. If the demand is truly there for a shuttle in every station then it should be a lucrative market. If the demand is indeed a heck of a lot lower than some here are making it sound then (which seems more likely) then the invisible hand will sort things out.
Truth.
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Segge Bolled
Caldari Dirty Sexy Pilots New Age Solutions Amalgamated
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Posted - 2008.04.25 06:01:00 -
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Originally by: Ava Santiago Maybe it was about opening a new kind of market to players and had nothing to do with Trit prices?
Shuttle Tycoons (Online) ?
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Jackie Fisher
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Posted - 2008.04.25 08:02:00 -
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Are Civilian ABs sold by NPC corps in every station?
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Dariah Stardweller
Kuruwasu Industries
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Posted - 2008.04.25 08:17:00 -
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Originally by: Jackie Fisher Are Civilian ABs sold by NPC corps in every station?
Just noob systems if I recall correctly.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.04.25 08:41:00 -
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Already pointed out, but let's repeat it:
Removing the shuttles and not removing the civilians AB has a interesting effect: it cap the price of tritanium in high sec near the starting stations (the systems where those modules are sold by NPC). The further away you go from those systems the lesser effect the cap has (a simple effect of the transport cost and the negative compression value of the AB).
That make mining tritanium for local markets away from the central area of empire more interesting. Not a bad move and possibly an intended effect of the change.
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Dasfry
Caldari Demio's Corporation Safe And Fun Environment
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Posted - 2008.04.25 08:44:00 -
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In reality I believe what was really going on was the convience of the shuttles available in every station, that set a lot of manufacturing players minds on reprocessing shuttles instead of buying tritantium off the market.
Not buying the trit off the market kept demand low.
other players repocessed the shuttles to sell trit on the market. Which in turn kept supply high.
The simple logistics of it, was u could get as much trit that u needed for manufacturing with-out hassel and logistics of transporting trit yourself. Simply by reprocessing shuttles.
In the end what u where paying for trit was mainly the ez access and zero logisitics.
Now that the cheap shuttles are gone, the supply of trit drops, the ez access is gone, and demand for trit goes up, supply goes down and what happens next prices go up.
So then u have more people willing to mine trit because its worth more. And now u have people actually working on trit logistics.
I wonder how many players believed it was 100% the macrominers fault prices where so low for trit? . Dasfry, CEO Demios Corporation
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Jackie Fisher
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Posted - 2008.04.25 09:30:00 -
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Originally by: Dariah Stardweller
Originally by: Jackie Fisher Are Civilian ABs sold by NPC corps in every station?
Just noob systems if I recall correctly.
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My recollection as well.
Anybody know offhand what the largest number you can buy in one go is? Given how little Trit each contains I suspect there is an awful lot of clicking to buy sufficient numbers to manufacture much irrespective of shipping issues.
* = Not pyramid quoting, honest.
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Tasko Pal
Heron Corporation
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Posted - 2008.04.25 11:05:00 -
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Edited by: Tasko Pal on 25/04/2008 11:06:20
Originally by: Jackie Fisher
Anybody know offhand what the largest number you can buy in one go is? Given how little Trit each contains I suspect there is an awful lot of clicking to buy sufficient numbers to manufacture much irrespective of shipping issues.
Once you've reached the max NPC sell price for that station and good, you can turn all your isk into civilian ABs in one go.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.04.25 11:28:00 -
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Originally by: Jackie Fisher
Originally by: Jackie Fisher Are Civilian ABs sold by NPC corps in every station?
Anybody know offhand what the largest number you can buy in one go is? Given how little Trit each contains I suspect there is an awful lot of clicking to buy sufficient numbers to manufacture much irrespective of shipping issues.
I think it is 8 mil+ in each station. If you want you can put a buy order at the price you want for the quantity you want and the sell order will refresh and satisfy it until the sell price go above you buy price or you buy order is fulfilled.
I did the same thing in reverse selling several hundred gallentean planetary vehicle in 1 go at a buy order for 10 vehicles. They were all sold in less than 1 second and the buy price didn't changed.
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Jinx Barker
GFB Scientific
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Posted - 2008.04.25 17:39:00 -
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Just FYI, the Civilian ABs are available around empire, and not just "Noob Systems" you can find them at almost any "School Station" in ample abundance.
I actually went out and bought myself a few million and reprocessed them into tritanium, beats trying to collect small orders all over the place or paying over the NPC value to the speculators who think that they are the only ones who know about the Civilian ABs and trying to sell massive amounts of reprocessed tritanium for 4 ISK per unit.
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Barbicane
TGUN Industries
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Posted - 2008.04.25 18:06:00 -
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Hmm... if it is like you say, I bet civ AB:s will have their mineral content stealth nerfed one of these days and anyone stocking up on them will be royally screwed.
Removing the civ AB:s would be detrimental to the new user experience, and I doubt CCP will do that.
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2008.04.25 18:36:00 -
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Quote: Just FYI, the Civilian ABs are available around empire, and not just "Noob Systems" you can find them at almost any "School Station" in ample abundance.
I thought basically all the 'school systems' were the noob systems? O.o
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Jinx Barker
GFB Scientific
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Posted - 2008.04.25 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: Ulstan
Quote: Just FYI, the Civilian ABs are available around empire, and not just "Noob Systems" you can find them at almost any "School Station" in ample abundance.
I thought basically all the 'school systems' were the noob systems? O.o
Naww, I am in Sinq Laison... and here is a list of stations that have Civilian ABs:
CAS, Fed Navy Academy, Uni of Cali. All those stations are strewn all over the place not just in noob systems. Any "School" type station will have the Civ Abs . For me personally it was just one jump from the "school" station to my fed navy station where I refined all the stuff at 0 loss. |

Barbicane
TGUN Industries
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Posted - 2008.04.25 21:05:00 -
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Yup... I verified it now. Each civilian afterburner refines into 60 trit and NPC stations sell them in unlimited numbers for 216 isk a piece => trit for 3.6 isk p.u.
I still bet that's about to change in the near future. Beats me why the OP felt the need to broadcast this info - he could have made some nice profit from it.
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Macon Squaredealer
Squaredeal Enterprises
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Posted - 2008.04.25 21:08:00 -
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NPC shuttles should have been taken off the market the day players had the ability to build shuttles.
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Tommy Meow
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Posted - 2008.04.25 21:37:00 -
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Originally by: Barbicane Yup... I verified it now. Each civilian afterburner refines into 60 trit and NPC stations sell them in unlimited numbers for 216 isk a piece => trit for 3.6 isk p.u.
I still bet that's about to change in the near future. Beats me why the OP felt the need to broadcast this info - he could have made some nice profit from it.
The reason why I have broadcasted the information is because:
1) I have already made quite a significant profit, close to 4 billion to be exact, on reprocessing and reselling the NPC made tritanium. Seems people who need 500 mill or more are willing to pay 4 or above per unit for the convenience of having it all in one place.
2) Because it ****es me off when such a great idea like the removal of the tritanium cap was accomplished by making so many people's lives miserable in the process because of shuttles.
3) Because I want everyone to know about it, since I believe I have reached a personal cap in maximizing my profits and I want to ruin it for all other resellers by making the general public aware of it, so they can capitalize on it as well, thus shrinking the market for something else I have in mind....
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Xintki
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Posted - 2008.04.25 22:07:00 -
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People are buying trit for more than 3.60? I think I need to find a new market... |

Zhecao Vai
Ultrapolite Socialites GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.04.26 01:50:00 -
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Is this some kind of joke? I don't think I've gotten in a shuttle in my life. Why would you fly one instead of a frigate or a newbie ship?
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Generic Generalization
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Posted - 2008.04.26 02:44:00 -
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Edited by: Generic Generalization on 26/04/2008 02:43:51 Shuttles!
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Selene D'Celeste
Caldari The D'Celeste Trading Company
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Posted - 2008.04.26 02:45:00 -
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Indeed, we've been talking about this practically since patch day. I'm surprised there are still people buying for 4+, that's pretty silly. That kind of margin should have dried up after the first week.
As for the 3.6 figure, let's not forget you need standings to reprocess in station since Civ ABs are insanely inconvenient to haul unprocessed -- if you do bother with that, you're wasting your life hauling and not really making so much money. This means without standings with the nub school factions (should be mostly rare), cap is at 3.72-> 4,.4ish since, as we should also recall, price increases every time you buy a unit and decreases as time passes.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.26 19:01:00 -
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Originally by: Selene D'Celeste Indeed, we've been talking about this practically since patch day. I'm surprised there are still people buying for 4+, that's pretty silly. That kind of margin should have dried up after the first week.
It's the fault of Dr Eyjog, whose devblog suggested that tritanium prices would rise. I'd say a lot of players are willing to pay the increased prices because of that, not realising that Dr Eyjog was completely incorrect. Add a healthy dose of marketeering onto that from people who think the cap isn't in place any more and it'll take some time for prices to stabilise.
Originally by: Selene D'Celeste as we should also recall, price increases every time you buy a unit
Not technically correct. You can buy up to 8,333,333 units in a single location before prices will rise as you can buy the entire sell order at once.
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Petyr Baelich
Taggart Transdimensional Virtue of Selfishness
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Posted - 2008.04.26 21:48:00 -
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Yes, but if someone wanted to sabotage that, could they simply buy 1 unit at a time until the price went up to their target levels? Or does it not work this way, but rather on a % of the total sell order to increase prices?
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.26 22:18:00 -
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Originally by: Petyr Baelich Yes, but if someone wanted to sabotage that, could they simply buy 1 unit at a time until the price went up to their target levels? Or does it not work this way, but rather on a % of the total sell order to increase prices?
There's a certain amount that it will go up with each X purchases. If X is 10,000 (for example) and 10,000 units are bought in one day, the price on the order will increase by a single increment Y. X and Y vary between items, a sell order for one type of item could increase by 5.2 isk for every 100 sold and a different item could increase by 0.01 for every 100,000 units sold.
I may have gotten a few details wrong there but the point is valid - The end result of buying 8,333,333 units all at once or one at a time is the same, the only difference is that buying in smaller batches allows the order to update its prices during the process so you'll pay more. You'll still need to buy all 8 million units to have the same effect as someone buying out the sell order entirely. Furthermore, the effect of buying out a sell order of civ abs is undone by waiting for 5-7 days.
Anyone pretending the cap has really increased is likely to be trying to convince people that it has so they can sell at 3.81 instead of 3.61 but there are always going to be refiners in place ready to push the prices back down to just above 3.6.
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Astermi
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Posted - 2008.04.27 07:45:00 -
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Speaking of the school stations, it's hard not to notice that they are a little too useful. Seems like some of their services should be spread out to other stations and systems.
Maybe reduce their refining efficiency, or perhaps capacity/hr. Consider relocating insurance or repair facilities. Cannot recall the labs & factory distribution. The books themselves basically comprise a station service.
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jongalt
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Posted - 2008.04.27 09:06:00 -
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i dunno, astermi.
there were times when flying to the school station was fraught with danger and apprehension. seriously.
but then im not kissing my faction mods and 10 pvp alts in a macho appeal to look cool for 20 of my closest "friends", either...
sometimes i wish i was, though.
as for trit. its becoming trite. maybe it always was...
-jg.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.04.27 18:24:00 -
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Originally by: Astermi Speaking of the school stations, it's hard not to notice that they are a little too useful. Seems like some of their services should be spread out to other stations and systems.
Maybe reduce their refining efficiency, or perhaps capacity/hr. Consider relocating insurance or repair facilities. Cannot recall the labs & factory distribution. The books themselves basically comprise a station service.
Why? There are plenty of station with the same facilities, and new players need them to learn the game. So explain why you want some of the service removed. |

Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.27 18:31:00 -
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Originally by: Venkul Mul Why? There are plenty of station with the same facilities, and new players need them to learn the game. So explain why you want some of the service removed.
Probably the same reason that Dr Eyjog thought removing shuttles on its own would do the trick - short-sightedness. There are many components to the problem but there is one underlying cause and addressing anything other than it will lead to a short-sighted solution which will be temporary at best.
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Tasko Pal
Heron Corporation
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Posted - 2008.04.27 20:21:00 -
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Originally by: Nyphur
Originally by: Venkul Mul Why? There are plenty of station with the same facilities, and new players need them to learn the game. So explain why you want some of the service removed.
Probably the same reason that Dr Eyjog thought removing shuttles on its own would do the trick - short-sightedness. There are many components to the problem but there is one underlying cause and addressing anything other than it will lead to a short-sighted solution which will be temporary at best.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.28 00:00:00 -
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Here we go, the story I wrote on the issue: http://www.massively.com/2008/04/27/eve-evolved-controversy-over-removal-of-shuttles/
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Ramblin Man
The Scope
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Posted - 2008.04.28 04:07:00 -
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I wouldn't exactly say 'controversy is brewing,' but hey... journalistic leeway on the tagline.
Tbh, the real failure in Dr.E's handling is psychological. I'll go ahead and put it bluntly: maybe a research economist has a few things to learn about managing expectations. Now the trit market's artificially skewed due to Livingston's showing his cards to everyone. 
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.28 16:57:00 -
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Originally by: Ramblin Man I wouldn't exactly say 'controversy is brewing,' but hey... journalistic leeway on the tagline.
Tbh, the real failure in Dr.E's handling is psychological. I'll go ahead and put it bluntly: maybe a research economist has a few things to learn about managing expectations. Now the trit market's artificially skewed due to Livingston's showing his cards to everyone. 
That's exactly it, the cap is still there but the prices are temporarily increased because a lot of people think it's gone. A lot of people are willing to pay more for large volumes of trit now and some people are playing the trit market without realising the cap is still there. It'll take a while for the news to permeate eve that nothing has changed.
As for the title.. well yeah, has to stand out :D.
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Feek
United Nations Intelligence Taskforce Overclockers Podpilot Services
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Posted - 2008.04.28 20:45:00 -
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Sometimes I think the players know a lot more about the game than CCP do - Do we think this AB thing was actually known about by them or are they now cursing the players because they found it so quickly and are making use of it? --
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.04.28 22:17:00 -
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Originally by: Feek Sometimes I think the players know a lot more about the game than CCP do - Do we think this AB thing was actually known about by them or are they now cursing the players because they found it so quickly and are making use of it?
They didn't even consider other items could enforce a cap as low as 3.6. The economist said that the cap had been raised but wasn't sure what to, indicating that he hadn't actually checked but just assumed that shuttles were the only things that refined into tritanium. They didn't research the issue enough before implementation, didn't examine the causes and ended up with the worst possible result.
It's POSSIBLE that they did check blueprints for items that are made entirely out of tritanium. There's no blueprint for civilian afterburners.
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Calgorac
The Arrow Project Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2008.04.28 22:42:00 -
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NPC supplied goods should not be refinable...
and rats should not drop player manufacturable goods...
problem solved :)
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raWill
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Posted - 2008.04.29 06:19:00 -
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It is my personal opinion that rather than strip the market of NPC Shuttle sell orders, they should have just made a max qty purchase of ... 1 shuttle.
Fecks me why they took them away as it clearly had nothing to do with Tritanium prices, in fact I don't know what it had to do with other than make our evelife harder!
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Kylar Renpurs
Dusk Blade
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Posted - 2008.04.29 07:23:00 -
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Quote: It is my personal opinion that rather than strip the market of NPC Shuttle sell orders, they should have just made a max qty purchase of ... 1 shuttle.
While I make no claim to knowing the guts of CCPs code, since there is no existing purchase-cap on any ingame items, the implementation of this is much larger than just saying "Put on a max qty of purchase of 1 on shuttles". However, it is comparably much easier to remove NPC buy orders, something which is ccp's 'dream' (to have everything non-named manufactured by players).
So on one hand you have: A) A solution needing considerably more work which doesn't contribute to a long term goal. OR B) A solution needing not much work and contributes to a long term goal.
I know what I'd pick. Ironically, people say "Sometimes the players know the game better than CCP",, well, it took about a week for (at least forumites) to come out and say "You're wrong, Civ AB's still refine down to 3.6". It's just something almost everyone overlooked.
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Pastiche
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Posted - 2008.04.29 18:07:00 -
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I am surprised that CCP doesn't use events like this for more creative purposes. Instead of just ripping them out like most MMO's. Such post a news story about it.
Quote:
Governing bodies today past a provision banning "NPC Corp description, i.e. Megacorp/Licensed Corps, etc" from further production of shuttles in Empire space effective immediately to help insure stability and stave off over saturation in the Tritanium market. Our economic correspondent states this may also be an effort to help control concerns over rising inflation.
Then instead of just deleting them all. Stop all new NPC sell orders from going up and letting the current ones run out. The 'instant' economy and item fixes have always bugged me in MMO's. From EQ to EVE and everything in between.
Another example is the recent ship spec changes with Trinity 1.2. Why not offer some sort of way to update your BPO/BPC and 'refit' your ship to the new specs? I've never woken up one morning with an extra 50hp under the hood of my car.
Grated I am not involved any development side of MMO's and I do not know the work involved but you are trying to create an immersive virtual world/universe it makes more sense to me.
I apologize for grammar/spelling problems or thread highjacking.
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SencneS
Amarr Rebellion Against big Irreversible Dinks
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Posted - 2008.04.29 18:27:00 -
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Release the BPO for Civ unit then remove the NCP orders.
While you're at it, do the same for...
Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant, Station, Vault, Warehouse cans. Then allow BPOs for all Station equipment, the POS, the Corp Hanger, Batteries EVERYTHING. I don't want to toss my ISK into a CCP Sink known as POSes, give it to the people that make them.
Then Get all the Moon Probes to have BPOs as well, because they have put a cap on the T2 market as well as the Minerals Market.
You'll also need to change PAX Amarrian Book to reprocess into something else. I can't think of any other NCP sold items that reprocess, but I know there is 2 others.
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2008.04.29 19:25:00 -
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Quote: Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant, Station, Vault, Warehouse cans. Then allow BPOs for all Station equipment, the POS, the Corp Hanger, Batteries EVERYTHING. I don't want to toss my ISK into a CCP Sink known as POSes, give it to the people that make them.
But a lot of folks say there aren't enough ISK sinks!
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.04.29 19:33:00 -
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Originally by: Ulstan
Quote: Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant, Station, Vault, Warehouse cans. Then allow BPOs for all Station equipment, the POS, the Corp Hanger, Batteries EVERYTHING. I don't want to toss my ISK into a CCP Sink known as POSes, give it to the people that make them.
But a lot of folks say there aren't enough ISK sinks!
Which is why you make the BPO's cost a fair bit of money, say 10-100x the current cost of those items. This would be a great way to enhance the market and to allow more diversification in manufacturing.
While we're at it, remove all non-basic skillbooks from the market and put them into the LP store with a split ISK/LP cost.
Double the tax / broker fees to 2%, introduce adv skills to reduce the fees to the same levels they are now if they are all trained to 5.
This will keep the isk sinks somewhat in line with where they are now and will drastically improve the trading/manufacturing side of EVE.
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raWill
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Posted - 2008.04.30 03:51:00 -
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Originally by: Kylar Renpurs
While I make no claim to knowing the guts of CCPs code
All you have to know and agree to is that the code sucks - From overview bugs to my client locking up when I modify a sell order it's shyte.
I find the way you type abrasive 
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Tiirae
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Posted - 2008.05.01 11:46:00 -
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Originally by: Zhecao Vai Is this some kind of joke? I don't think I've gotten in a shuttle in my life. Why would you fly one instead of a frigate or a newbie ship?
Wow. I guess some people don't fly in hostile space much. Shuttles get into warp faster than just about anything, and you need a scan res of well over 1000 to lock them.
i.e. you can get past any non-bubbled gatecamp in a shuttle. Doesn't matter if there's a hundred ships with sensor boosters, they will not be able to lock you in time unless they are being remote-boosted by at least two other ships.
Shuttles are invaluable for getting out of a hostile area after you have lost your ship. They are invaluable for transporting high-value low-volume items through hostile space.
And the definition of 'hostile space' includes empire, where there are gankers on every gate.
A noob ship or regular frigate isn't even close to the safety of a shuttle.
Removing the trit price cap was a good idea, but doing it this way is just about the worst execution possible.
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2008.05.01 13:23:00 -
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Originally by: Tiirae
Originally by: Zhecao Vai Is this some kind of joke? I don't think I've gotten in a shuttle in my life. Why would you fly one instead of a frigate or a newbie ship?
Wow. I guess some people don't fly in hostile space much. Shuttles get into warp faster than just about anything, and you need a scan res of well over 1000 to lock them.
i.e. you can get past any non-bubbled gatecamp in a shuttle. Doesn't matter if there's a hundred ships with sensor boosters, they will not be able to lock you in time unless they are being remote-boosted by at least two other ships.
Shuttles are invaluable for getting out of a hostile area after you have lost your ship. They are invaluable for transporting high-value low-volume items through hostile space.
And the definition of 'hostile space' includes empire, where there are gankers on every gate.
A noob ship or regular frigate isn't even close to the safety of a shuttle.
Removing the trit price cap was a good idea, but doing it this way is just about the worst execution possible.
By the time you are doing any of that, you really ought to be flying an interceptor anyway.
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SencneS
Amarr Rebellion Against big Irreversible Dinks
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Posted - 2008.05.01 13:45:00 -
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Hell I use Interceptors in Empire to carry high value items.
Throw a couple of Polly Carbon rigs on it. A Nano fiber, 2 inertia stabilizers and 1 Overdrive II on that thing and it jumps into warp faster then it'll uncloak the first 1/5th of the ship.
Even if they manage to lock you, you can get away from them at 6000+m/s if you got the skills.
On this toon (Not the one I'm talking about above) I use a Ceptor with Cargo expanders and Polly Carbon rigs, it still jumps into warp before it completely uncloaks.
You can run a lot of Distribution missions in low and highsec in a ceptor with Expanders 
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2008.05.01 14:12:00 -
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Originally by: SencneS Hell I use Interceptors in Empire to carry high value items.
Throw a couple of Polly Carbon rigs on it. A Nano fiber, 2 inertia stabilizers and 1 Overdrive II on that thing and it jumps into warp faster then it'll uncloak the first 1/5th of the ship.
Even if they manage to lock you, you can get away from them at 6000+m/s if you got the skills.
On this toon (Not the one I'm talking about above) I use a Ceptor with Cargo expanders and Polly Carbon rigs, it still jumps into warp before it completely uncloaks.
You can run a lot of Distribution missions in low and highsec in a ceptor with Expanders 
Exactly... when moving BPOs short distances in Empire they go in a fitted ceptor |

PaddyPaddy Nihildarnik
Gallente aurorae pacificas
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Posted - 2008.05.01 16:49:00 -
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Originally by: Kazzac Elentria
Originally by: SencneS Hell I use Interceptors in Empire to carry high value items.
Throw a couple of Polly Carbon rigs on it. A Nano fiber, 2 inertia stabilizers and 1 Overdrive II on that thing and it jumps into warp faster then it'll uncloak the first 1/5th of the ship.
Even if they manage to lock you, you can get away from them at 6000+m/s if you got the skills.
On this toon (Not the one I'm talking about above) I use a Ceptor with Cargo expanders and Polly Carbon rigs, it still jumps into warp before it completely uncloaks.
You can run a lot of Distribution missions in low and highsec in a ceptor with Expanders 
Exactly... when moving BPOs short distances in Empire they go in a fitted ceptor
Personally im a fan of the nanoed covert ops.
Aussie TZ pvp corp AuPac is recruiting |

Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.05.01 19:49:00 -
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I kinda like the super-tanked command ship for valuable BPO's myself if it's a short distance.
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Jinx Barker
GFB Scientific
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Posted - 2008.05.02 07:14:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle I kinda like the super-tanked command ship for valuable BPO's myself if it's a short distance.
Yea, this is one of the better ways of moving the stuff nowadays. |
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