Why have the market prices for ships gone up by such an extreme amount in the past month?

prices for products are high you say?
damn, sounds like an excellent time to, you know, produce and sell the products.

I'm a combat pilot, not an industrial pilot. I want to do combat, not mine and make ships. Isn't this supposed to be a "sandbox" as people like to call it?

I don't know enough about economics to offer solutions to rising prices for minerals, and therefore ships.

We saw this comming and offered MRDs as a solution to rising prices.

I would stop now.

Keep in mind: if things can go up, they can go down.

MRD?

I don't know enough about economics to offer solutions to rising prices for minerals, and therefore ships. I also don't have a solution to inflation. I'm just very concerned that this trend could continue without increasing the rewards from combat missions and bounties. I sold my old character so I have a buffer of isk. However, these prices will put ships out of range for new pilots. I have played prior to 2010 and missions alone were adequate to pay for all my PvP ships, even some faction/deadspace fits. I didn't even have to loot or salvage. But, prices have increased a lot since then.

Actually, I would say that the reason to why the prices of ships are increasing is BECAUSE combat missions, incursions etc pay too much. Which sane person would cut his income in half to mine or manufacture when all you can do is join one of the "elite" incursion fleets and print isk like if there was no tomorrow.

When everyone gets rich by doing this, combined with the drone region change mineral prices are bound to go up, since not enough people will mine enough minerals to keep the prices on the same level as before.

So if you really want cheaper ships. Ask CCP to LOWER all income from combat related PvE to make more people spend their time PvEing by mining and manufacturing.

Coming from the man with a Monocle.

The fact that I'm beautiful doesn't make it less true.

Quite right my dear friend. Personally I can afford many monocles, but I chose not to because my glasses are awesome.

So we've got two isk mongers sitting on their high horses telling everyone else just to 'suck it up.' Why not just follow this up with "Let them eat cake" just for good measure.

Good lord Jas...we're being overly dramatic aren't we?

Buy a time machine and go back to 2007 and let me know how much everything is

Good lord Jas...we're being overly dramatic aren't we?

Buy a time machine and go back to 2007 and let me know how much everything is

Oh, don't get me wrong. I feel that those without isk are without isk for a reason. And if they want isk they should do something about it instead of complaining. I just find it funny that it is the person with a monocle talking down to others.

CCP should not step in and do any price setting or adjusting. Sure, these prices may be the result of bot banning, and RMT asset removal. It is just a change. Those who are unable to adapt will suffer, those who can will prosper. That IS the nature of EvE, and the foundation of a good Sandbox game.

So because my internet spaceship avatar is wearing a monocle, my attempt to explain what is happening is considered looking down at people?

Yes.

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-People not building/mining in fear of Burn Jita and Hulkageddon operations
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Being new to the game, wanna ask why should I care about this? In fact, why should I care about Jita as long I can sell my stuff in Dodixie at the same price and rate. Dodixie is much closer to my base and have less gankers. Just trying to understand the basics..

It's much often regarded as the trading capital. Dodixie is the second largest.

I'm a combat pilot, not an industrial pilot. I want to do combat, not mine and make ships. Isn't this supposed to be a "sandbox" as people like to call it?

Excluding T2 goods these prices are high even for 2007 (for one thing Trit was around 2.5/unit back then). Drake is at 53m now. I expect it'll top 60m by the end of the week.


Lets say a hulk is going to pull 1600m/3 minute (about what you would expect from a hulk that is near maxed out according to EFT). =50000000/60/( (1600/71.17) *1000)

If the miner is mining veld and wants to make 50m/hours that gives us a price for trit of around 37. For 20m/hour it gives us 14.82.

Unless CCP caps mineral prices, things are going to get interesting. It isn't just a matter of nerfing incursions. CCP would need to nerf level 4 missions blow the 20m / hour point to make mining worth it.

Conclusion: most miners were bots and CCP just opened up a can of consequences in banning them.

Because Jita is bigger :D
It's much often regarded as the trading capital. Dodixie is the second largest.

Because Jita is bigger :D
It's much often regarded as the trading capital. Dodixie is the second largest.

You're a PvP pilot who is having a hard time dealing with the market price changes?

Here's what you do: Pick up a hauler, and go out looting cans from people jet can mining.

Or, fit up a Destroyer and go out seeking mining ships with weak tanks and see if you can take them out before CONCORD gets you.

Or, Get into a BS and stick miners on it (Rohk works well I've heard) and join them until the market settles.

Because Jita is bigger :D
It's much often regarded as the trading capital. Dodixie is the second largest.

Your numbers are off by a factor of about 4 (or more).

Solo hulk in hi-sec, maxed out with T2 strips, T2 crystals and level V skills (no implants) will mine about 95k m3/hr, including dock/unload time. If Tritanium is selling for 6.67, that makes regular Veld worth 200 ISK/m3. Therefore 200 * 95k m3/hr = 19M ISK/hr.

As for the original poster, I present to you the EVE Mineral Price Index. As it goes up, so do T1 product prices.

http://www.evemarketeer.com/trade/mineralindex

A lot of people have said what is causing the prices to go up, and are dead on about it. It's a pefect storm of lots of things that are shooting up prices, but like all storms they come and go, but how long this one will last is completely uncertian because of one little truth: MINING SUCKS. IT REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY SUCKS. Same time I can spend in a hulk in highsec and mine a million or so isk of minerials is the same time it takes me to make 10 or 20 or 30 million isk in a mach or a phantasim. And that's why you don't really see miners in hisec belts anymore. Oh that and it's so easy to suicide gank them, (which I have done on several occassions myself, often enough to know mining is dangerous, and that a different fit than then the optimal mining configuration is required for longterm survival. So, right now the mining equation = high risk + low reward. Part of the low reward is that it is simply not fun to mine. IT's so not fun that now that there is a long war against bots doing the mining, that it will take more a lot more isk to bilk the miners into unloading their minerals into the market. Once it becomes profitable enough to endure the insane boredom of mining, than the markets will level out. If their ever becomes a significant oversupply of mins again in the future, than the market will crash, or at the very least slump. As always there will be some overspeculation that ends up costing somebody a small fortune. The peaks and valleys are never as high or low as the most greedy imagines them to be.

Why have the market prices for ships gone up by such an extreme amount in the past month? Ships are becoming unaffordable for combat pilots who do missions to make isk. ... deletia....

Who played eve when a battleship was something to behold and not a common every grid site. Well here comes those days.

I don't have an accurate idea about the ideal price of ships as most of you do, the only idea i have is that ships shouldn't be so cheap one could simply break dozens of them with no real pain felt. Current state seems too close for me to that, so i am up for things getting more expensive.
Also, right now a serious percentage of reasonably populated high sec belts are stripped in 10 hours after the servers are up. Most systems are out of ore long before the restart, so no mineral income boost is going to happen simply because the ammount of ore is not infinite. The more distant highsec systems, on the other hand, are quite rich with asteroids, but noone mines them because of hauling issues and because you will be far too simple target for gankers.
So, unless more asteroids are added into highsec or exhumers will be made more endurant so that ship with one fifth of their price can't kill them, there is no more ore comming from safe space.
I don't know about lowsec or nullsec, i won't express myself about those.