to elaborate, all stockpiles are gone (everyone has assumed the tech nerf is right around the corner for a year+ so everybody has gotten rid of it)

and, i sell goonswarm's technetium and so I personally manage ~17-20% of all tech supply in the game, and i enjoy high tech prices

and demand is constant, but with the loss of stockpiles supply is down, and enough is in my hands i have the power to create shocks to hasten the price's rise

you'd all best get lubed, the only reason its only at 200k was i figured that was a good place for now instead of seeing if i could jack it to 250k in one go

to elaborate, all stockpiles are gone (everyone has assumed the tech nerf is right around the corner for a year+ so everybody has gotten rid of it)

and, i sell goonswarm's technetium and so I personally manage ~17-20% of all tech supply in the game, and i enjoy high tech prices

and demand is constant, but with the loss of stockpiles supply is down, and enough is in my hands i have the power to create shocks to hasten the price's rise

you'd all best get lubed, the only reason its only at 200k was i figured that was a good place for now instead of seeing if i could jack it to 250k in one go

Like akita said in his original analysis, at what relative price will people actually start using significantly less t2 stuff?

The sky really is the limit.

Also, financial terrorism gets me hot. Just sayin'.

minerals going nuts spikes the price of tech 1 goons such that the premium for tech 2 doesn't seem all that high. meanwhile tech 3 is in many cases inferior to their tech 2 equivalents in one way or another and in any case a mass movement out of tech 2 into tech 3 across all niche roles would spike the price on them such that people would still use tech 2 anyway.


convenient, huh?

this ain't elitism this is me getting empire's balls in a vise and spinning

This is shocking But what is the reason?

The Dominion expansion, winter of 2009.
It took this long to burn through the vast majority of old stockpiles.

It would have been a lot sooner if not for the overall slump in game activity surrounding crucible. The general demand for stuff just wasn't there to really squeeze that bottleneck. As soon as activity resumed, tech began it's final ascent.

I was wondering why t2 prices were going up fast even though they barely use any basic minerals. I don't pay attention to t2 production so I assumed tech spiked and peaked a long time ago. Not sure why anyone would dump when prices could only possibly go up.

Again, I don't know much about t2 production, how much would the average t2 ship go up in cost if tech went up like he is saying 200k to 250k?

They don't have to hold back any Tech because the amount of moons are to low.

In the moment there is a price run. Those who make reactions and are able to buy early Technetium for the next run, selling their stuff to prices calculated for higher Tech prices. And to get more fire into this race, the investments per tower is at a rate of 2b per tower per week. The amount of pos owners able to finance this race should be shrinking and this causes higher prices.

Say Bye Bye to tec in the next patch, make your money while you can

I guess this initiative of Mittani has of course the purpose to force CCP to do something with the empire and the moongoo.

[yawn]