Drone Bay Podcast: EVE Economic Segment Notes

For those who are about, or who just have listened to the Drone Bay Podcast #1, here are my notes for the EVE Economy segment which I covered during the show. All this information was taken mostly from the first Econ Dev Blog. I highly encourage you to read up on the QEN and other Dev Blog, they are very captivating.

Enjoy!

Econ Dev Blogs and the QENs

Published so far:
Introduction - Move over Greenspan
Econ Dev Blog #1 on Market Overview For Mineral Markets
Econ Dev Bog #2 on Production of space ships
Quarterly Economic Newsletter #1 - 3rd Quarter 2007
Econ Dev Blog #3 on Statistics on Corporation
Quarterly Economic Newsletter #2 - 4th Quarter 2007

Market Overview For Mineral Markets

• Minerals basis of the EVE economy
• The market economy is huge with thousands of transactions a day
• EVE population has increased 0.9% per week since launch, but its trade volume has increased by 1.29%
• Trade volume increases at a higher rate then population
• June 2007 1.6 trillion ISKs in minerals traded on a weekly basis - that's 100% year over year from June 2006
• 2 types of Minerals
• Low-end: Tritanium, Isogen, mexallon and pyrite
• High-end: megacyte, morphite, mocxium and zydrine

• High-end can only be mined in low sec and 0.0 space, whereas low-end minerals can be mined everywhere, including Empire
• Over the past year low-end volume increased by 180%, versus 250% for high-end. This because of the demand for Tech II production, which requires more high-end minerals
• Trade – where minerals change hands
• Over 5000 systems in EVE universe, spread out over 64 regions
• Empire space is where most of the mineral trade happens
• The top 10 regions have 80% of total quantity traded, with the 5 holding 50% (as of June 2007)
• Forge (Jita) has 12%, Heimatar follows closely with 11%
• The rest are:
• Verge Vendor
• Lonetrek
• Metropolis
• Sing Liason
• Tash-Murkon
• The Citadel
• Essence and Domain
  

• Traders – Great articles by Kaaii, on Trade Part 1, 2 and 3 in the first 3 issues of EON