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Hmmm Tc about to go nuclear?

there are no speculative stockpiles of tech left, it's just common sense

You forget lazy people with way too much unused ISK.
I am pretty sure there's still at least several million units sitting in random bored people's hangars.
Granted, they might never actually see the market again, and the entire stockpiles might only last for a few weeks, but who knows.

Several million units is nothing at this point. More importantly though, there's no actively traded stockpiles to be dumped into spikes and the like, that would counteract what I can do to the market. If someone's got a million units in a hangar it's because they forgot about it and I can ignore it.

you really should just ignore akita T's pathological need to be right even if it means resorting to semantics and "nitpicking" just fyi

No one wants to stick out their neck with a brave guess at how it might go?

Akita?

I stuck mine out with the "going nuclear" one - Must be someone else at the bat now

No one wants to stick out their neck with a brave guess at how it might go? Akita?

That's a lot of words to say "It will go as high as we can damn well get it to go before CCP finally steps in".

The Largo Embargo is strong with the goons and friends..

All null mats will be going up up and away.. and then fall like a rock, not as ccp steps in, but as they will most likely be motivated to up prioritize some changes before others..

I don't see it as a bad thing. The moons are there to be taken. If people don't feel pressed enough to go there and fight for them it's because they don't want or don't deserve them enough.

Come on, you can't seriously expect the remaining 95% of EVE players to take the game as seriously as the goons do? We can't kill that which has no life

That's a lot of words to say "It will go as high as we can damn well get it to go before CCP finally steps in".

You can't have missed the "too complicated" bit in the post though :)
It was basically "I can't tell you for sure, but if you INSIST on an answer, here is my best GUESS for now, and what can happen to make that guess end up being wrong" (easily verifiable possible events).

Well, yes, the gist of it might have been that "it will go as high as possible until CCP stops it".
However, it contained some hints as to how high that max value might reasonably be so that internal OTEC "friendly" same-price time-of-placement competition would not make it self-destruct in the long run.
And a warning that this will probably make CCP act sooner.
Also it contained the reasoning behind what else might happen until that time that CCP decides to intervene (what else goes down and why plus a very rough estimate of about how much).

It sounds like you are saying that you think there is a point where in-game market manipulation will cause CCP to step in. Not just this specific instance, but in general. Where do you think that line is ?

Asking someone to predict CCP's actions based on the players is like asking someone to predict what God will do. In this context, God actually exists, but that doesn't make predicting Its actions any easier.

The only definitive statement I'd be willing to make is that technetium will drop in price in the future and this drop in price will coincide with, at the very earliest, the announcement of a firm date for the introduction of ring mining.