Nuff said.
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How Much for My Minerals?
Few days ago I accidentally stumbled across some papers mentioning mineral prices taken in account several years ago by Roden Shipyards:
Of course, these prices are totally different from what we have on markets now. Here's the approximate list of what you can get (or pay) in Amarr:
Quite a drastic change. Why could they happen?
Tritanium is most needed. That's obvious. A bit less obvious is the fact that its supply is limited by number of high-sec systems close to trading hubs. Every single asteroid in these systems is probably mined out. Noone wants to mine Veldspar in low-sec systems. On the other hand, there are large alliances paing lots for the tritanium. They can provide enough high-end minerals for their needs but the basic tritanium is still needed. That's why high prices.
Pyerite .. is a subproduct of mining tritanium. Miners who clean out high-sec fields will mine scordite for tritanium too. But since they're getting pyerite from this, they're selling it. Selling it low.
Mexallon seems to be the only balanced mineral. Interesting.
Isogen is subproduct of mining omber. It gives quite a good profit to a miner so lots of novice miners will hunt for omber.
Nocxium is like pyerite a subproduct of mining high-sec ores too. Pyroxeres and plagioclase are mined out in a same way as scordite. Of course, mining low-sec ores in order to get some zydrine yields noxcium as well.
Zydrine costs about as much as it should. A bit cheaper then expected and the reason are null-sec alliances. These are getting lots of isk from high-end minerals to be able to buy lots of tritanium for their capital ships.
If you need zydrine you need about as much megacyte. And for null-sec miners it seems even more profitable. That's why market is filled with cheap megacyte.
Morphite.... As far as I know, main source of it are drones. Not much people are actually mining mercoxite – arkonor would be easier to find and more profitable. Morphite consumption is quite low compared to other minerals – it isn't used in capital ship production. That's why low price.
Looking at mineral cost of some huge ship using old and new prices result may seem strange at first – price is about the same. While at the first glance one can see a strong price growth of tritanium, the base material, low prices for high-end minerals don't actually affect the final cost too much. But low prices for "mid-end" minerals do.
Calculating these costs by hand won't help. Some material cost analyzing tool would be handy here.
Yeah, my uber manufacturing software.
Tritanium 2.0 Pyerite 8.0 Mexallon 32.0 Isogen 128.0 Nocxium 512.0 Zydrine 2048.0 Megacyte 8192.0 Morphite 32768.0
Of course, these prices are totally different from what we have on markets now. Here's the approximate list of what you can get (or pay) in Amarr:
Tritanium 4.0 to 4.3 Pyerite 4.0 to 4.5 Mexallon 33 to 35 Isogen 57 to 63 Nocxium 79 to 90 (!) Zydrine 1750 to 1900 Megacyte 4000 to 4500 Morphite 8000 to 9000
Quite a drastic change. Why could they happen?
Tritanium is most needed. That's obvious. A bit less obvious is the fact that its supply is limited by number of high-sec systems close to trading hubs. Every single asteroid in these systems is probably mined out. Noone wants to mine Veldspar in low-sec systems. On the other hand, there are large alliances paing lots for the tritanium. They can provide enough high-end minerals for their needs but the basic tritanium is still needed. That's why high prices.
Pyerite .. is a subproduct of mining tritanium. Miners who clean out high-sec fields will mine scordite for tritanium too. But since they're getting pyerite from this, they're selling it. Selling it low.
Mexallon seems to be the only balanced mineral. Interesting.
Isogen is subproduct of mining omber. It gives quite a good profit to a miner so lots of novice miners will hunt for omber.
Nocxium is like pyerite a subproduct of mining high-sec ores too. Pyroxeres and plagioclase are mined out in a same way as scordite. Of course, mining low-sec ores in order to get some zydrine yields noxcium as well.
Zydrine costs about as much as it should. A bit cheaper then expected and the reason are null-sec alliances. These are getting lots of isk from high-end minerals to be able to buy lots of tritanium for their capital ships.
If you need zydrine you need about as much megacyte. And for null-sec miners it seems even more profitable. That's why market is filled with cheap megacyte.
Morphite.... As far as I know, main source of it are drones. Not much people are actually mining mercoxite – arkonor would be easier to find and more profitable. Morphite consumption is quite low compared to other minerals – it isn't used in capital ship production. That's why low price.
Looking at mineral cost of some huge ship using old and new prices result may seem strange at first – price is about the same. While at the first glance one can see a strong price growth of tritanium, the base material, low prices for high-end minerals don't actually affect the final cost too much. But low prices for "mid-end" minerals do.
Calculating these costs by hand won't help. Some material cost analyzing tool would be handy here.
Yeah, my uber manufacturing software.
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