Mailbag - Market Mistake

Re: Re: Market mistake
From: Name Removed
Sent: 2014.01.21 09:27
To: My Tradealt,

Thank you very much. Indeed noteworthy and rare to find players with your attitude. It's experiences like this that makes me want to keep on playing this game.

Yours faithfully
Name Removed

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Re: Market mistake
From: My Tradealt
Sent: 2014.01.21 08:34
To: Name Removed,

Fair enough.

I hate the way the market does that braindead crap and since you asked so nicely I sent you another 74.85 mil.

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Market mistake
From: Name Removed
Sent: 2014.01.19 13:14
To: My Tradealt,

Greetings

Congratulations on your purchase of the Highwall Mining MX-1005 implant for 150K isk. I was a bit too quick about putting it on the market, and what should have been a 150M sell order became a 150K sell order, automatically filling your buy order of 75M.

I would be extremely happy with any compensation for my mistake, hoping that you would pay at least the remaining 74,850,000 isk of your buy order. I'm crossing my fingers, and hoping for the best.

Fly safe.

Yours faithfully
Name Removed

A Titanic Deal = A Great Day

When I fired up jEveAssets today I was surprised to see my net worth had gone up by 7 or 8 billion overnight. One character had over 7.7 billion in assets, around 6 billion more than he'd had less than 12 hours earlier. WTH?

So I checked the transactions log in game and found this.

Sweet, not only did I buy a bunch of +5 implants at nice prices, I got a titan book for only 6 million ISK or a bit more than 1/1000th of what they sell for. I'll make close to half a billion on the implants and nearly 5.5 billion on the book.

6 billion in profit on a single character makes for a great day!

Regional Market Rankings Update - Jan 2014

In November of last year I posted a list Ranking Regional Markets in Empire Space. Since then I've found having a ranked list of empire regions sorted by total market size is incredibly useful for a variety of reasons.

Since that list was compiled a few regions have become busier while others have become less busy so I've updated my list.

All data was pulled from eve-marketdata.com station ranking lists on Friday Jan 17 2014.

The Forge 143,908 orders 30,769,716,463,253 ISK
Domain 72,514 orders 7,900,220,744,514 ISK
Sinq Laison 60,595 orders 4,955,938,856,290 ISK
Heimatar 50,560 orders 4,385,403,986,019 ISK
Metropolis 46,152 orders 3,544,407,625,690 ISK
Lonetrek 43,161 orders 2,807,163,747,878 ISK
Essence 33,955 orders 2,219,897,092,873 ISK
The Citadel 30,287 orders 2,097,881,608,667 ISK

Placid 24,600 orders 1,501,879,821,111 ISK
Tash-Murkon 21,147 orders 1,396,690,947,187 ISK
Derelik 17,438 orders 1,158,290,756,358 ISK
Khanid 12,630 orders 1,081,642,392,500 ISK
Black Rise 15,800 orders 1,077,269,742,466 ISK

Genesis 17,954 orders 908,164,532,910  ISK

Everyshore 16,681 orders 901,394,452,76 ISK
Verge Vendor 20,366 orders 888,225,237,601 ISK

Kador 12,134 orders 626,051,065,007 ISK

Kor-Azor 10,350 orders 631,657,062,927 ISK

Devoid 9,231 orders 679,609,057,998 ISK

Molden Heath 10,000 orders 528,071,813,608 ISK

The Bleak Lands 6,569 orders 352,359,818,669 ISK

Aridia 5,152 orders 301,100,809,519 ISK

Solitude 6,371 orders 281,543,692,117 ISK

Note the bottom 4 plus Placid and Black Rise are all regions composed of mostly low sec systems and where the primary activity is PvP.

The big movers were Placid and Genesis moving up the list with growing markets. Genesis in particular saw growth of over 200 billion with most of the new business on Apanake which has very quickly grown from a sleepy little backwater mission hub into the most active mission hub and biggest market hub in the region.

I think it'd be great if eve-marketdata would put up a new page that automatically generates a list like this with options to show empire regions, non-empire regions, or both.

Don't forget Death Race 2014 - The only good goon is a dead goon starts monday. Feel free to help advertise this event and spread the word by linking that post in game, on your own blogs, on Reddit, Facebook or anywhere that might help increase turnout.

Quick Turnaround Trade

Gotta like those quick turnaround trades, especially when there are nice profits involved.

Less than 2 hours from buying to selling for an easy 80 million ISK profit. Actually less time than that. I'm not sure exactly how much less but it was definitely less than an hour after I logged in and posted them for sale.

Just goes to show why you should post things for sale at reasonable prices rather than trying to gouge too much. Other Cranes posted for sale in the region were around 150 million (very high compared to prices elsewhere) and have just been sitting for a long time, NOT selling. Yet my 2 posted at a slightly higher than normal but still reasonable price sold very quickly.

Death Race 2014 - Starts Monday Jan 20th

The only good goon is a dead goon!

Let's kill some goons!

Death Race 2014 is a week long event, running from noon Monday Jan 20th until noon Monday Jan 27th.

Death Race 2014 is a race from EC-P8R to VFK-IV with lots of fun killing goons along the way. EC-P8R is the most notorious (practically permanently manned) gate camp in the game, a high to null gateway on a high traffic route to goonswarm's home system of VFK-IV where their capital VFK-IV VI (aka Mittanigrad) is located..

Prizes

1st place - 2 billion ISK

2nd place - 1 billion ISK
3rd place - 1 billion ISK

4th place 1 PLEX
5th place 1 PLEX

Prizes will be mailed in game to the winners.

Race Rules

There are no entry fees.
Anyone may enter. Even goons killing other goons!
All times are in server time.

For the purposes of this race "goon" is defined as any member of a corporation in the GoonSwarm Federation alliance.
In order to claim a kill you must have the final blow. If anyone else gets the final blow it's his kill, not your's.
All kills and killmail values must be API verified with killmail links provided by participants.

The contest will run for 1 full week. From noon Mon Jan 20 until noon Mon Jan 27.
Participants may make multiple runs during that week and enter each run into the contest, however each character is only eligible to win one prize.

To qualify for the race and start a run you must kill a ship or pod in EC-P8R. Any kill counts, it doesn't have to be a goon, though it won't count for points unless it is a goon.

Once you have your qualifying kill you have 24 hours to collect points killing goons.
To finish the race you must kill your last ship or pod in VFK-IV. Again, any kill counts as a finishing kill, but in order to score points it must be a goon.

Points will be scored as follows

For every full hour (partial hours do not count) less than 24 hours it takes you to finish the race you will receive 1 point.
For every goon ship kill you will receive 1 point.
For every goon pod kill you will receive 1 point.

For both ship and pod kills you will receive 1 additional point for every full 100 million ISK in killmail value (calculated for each individual kill, NOT as a combined total). Killmails for 99,999,999.99 ISK or less are worth no additional points, 100,000,000.00 to 199,999,999.99 ISK are worth 1 additional point, 200,000,000.00 to 299,999,999.99 are worth 2 additional points and so on.

Non goon kills may be counted as qualifying or finishing kills but do not count for points.
Only killing goons counts for points.

If you do not finish your run with a kill in VFK-IV VI, you will be deemed having failed to complete the race and will be ineligible for prizes.

In the event that it takes you more than 24 hours to get a finishing kill in VFK-IV, late kills will count for the purpose of finishing the race, however no kills more than 24 hours after the initial qualifying kill (in EC-P8R) will count for points.

Multiple kills in the starting and finishing systems are fine. It's completely up to you which ones you wish to designate as the first (qualifying) and last (finishing) kills.

You may not score points for any goon kills made after the time of your finishing kill.
Nor may you score points for any goon kills made more than 24 hours after your initial qualifying kill. This includes late finishing kills (which will count as finishing kills but will not score points).

Entering and Scoring your Runs

To enter simply post a comment here in this article with the results of your run, complete with scoring math and links to API verified killmails. You are responsible for scoring your own run. After the contest is over scores will be double checked beginning with the highest score submitted and working downwards until the winners have been determined.

Runs started before noon Monday 20 Jan are not eligible for entry.
Scoring ends on Monday Jan 27th at noon. Kills made after noon will not count for points, however finishing kills up to 6 hours later will be accepted.

It is possible some scoring mistakes will be made and scores will be adjusted accordingly, however any entries riddled with mistakes will be invalidated and thrown out.

In addition, if you submit a run where you repeatedly kill the same goon (especially if he's always in a rookie ship or pod) over and over, or something along those lines, don't be surprised if your run gets tossed out too.

Participants are encouraged to check scores too, to help me identify submissions with fake killmails, non goon kills and the like. I'm no expert on that kind of thing so I'd appreciate all the help I can get..

Goon Hunting Season - Opens Monday

As revealed yesterday Goon Hunting Season will be opening soon. Following a philosophy best expressed as "the only good goon is a dead goon", the overall plan is to sponsor a series of fun contests and events featuring the harassment, griefing and killing of goons.

Hunt goons down, massacre them in bunches and harvest their tears... Anywhere you can find them but especially on their own turf.

The first event to kick off Goon Hunting Season will be Death Race 2014, a week full of races from EC-P8R to VFK-IV. In the spirit of the old Death Race movies a big part of the race will be collecting bonus points by killing bystanders, only this time they'll be goons rather than innocents.

Prizes are guaranteed to be worth at least 5 billion in total. If the turnout is exceptional the prize pool may be increased.

Opening day will be on Monday the 20th of January 2014. Complete rules for the race will be posted before then.

Feel free to spread the word and help ensure a good turnout with as many showing up to kill goons as possible.

Goon Hunting Season Opening Soon

I've been planning on doing some kind of contest or event involving killing goons for quite a long while. I had several different ideas and I've been pondering a couple of the best for months trying to make up my mind which to do. The biggest problem was keeping things simple enough it wouldn't take up too much of my time to organize and run.

In the end I was down to 2 different plans, one involving a wardec corporation but Gevlon's basically just done that so that's out now, leaving the other plan... A series of contests and events revolving around the common theme of killing, griefing, annoying and just generally making things more difficult for goons.

Goon Hunting Season will be kicking off soon with a fun filled week long event. There'll be plenty of incentive to massacre goons and billions in prizes for the killers!

Check back here over the next couple days for more information.