Great time to be a crafter?

[Lerxst]

Just curious how crafters are doing with the recent crash of ore and enmatter prices. I notice the prices of crafted items are not going down so there must be some nice profit these days. Anyone have any idea why the prices of ores and enmats crashed? Lots of big HOFs but it's not like one ore going down, it's down across the board. Are people crafting less?

[Skitzo]

No nice profits here...

Maybe some for the top crafters in game?
Good times for traders though. Buy Buy Buy!

[alh]

It happened during this month most of it.
gained some extra speed this last week.

It'll settle soon, and the price of crafted stuff will follow as more begin to craft

I think it'll be generally good for the market.

I've lost a bit on it though, hard to keep up.
But its part of the risk of business... trading isn't as sure a profit as some seem to think

[Dorsai]

Perhaps a small number of crafters who used a large amount of resources have given crafting up as a bad idea?

Result, more resources than there are crafters to use them. Price falls.

[Thorn]

Maybe a great time to skill a little bit of crafting as I have but only because it`s not the greatest time to be a miner. I have been crafting my oil and lyst simply becasue it`s almost not worth it to sell unless I have a ton which has been rare due to a little down period for me. And better than just throwing it into the tt. At least sometimes I can turn some int res which gets a better price than the minerals that end up making it. Again it just makes me question the health of the EU economy.

[Dion Red Strike]

Originally Posted by Dorsai

Perhaps a small number of crafters who used a large amount of resources have given crafting up as a bad idea?

Result, more resources than there are crafters to use them. Price falls.

What Dorsai said... yes..

And, it's not only enmatters and ores that crafters need now, but also robot parts and generic components...

[snake_eyes]

I think the affordability of amps has had an impact on ore prices too due to the big crash in metal residue prices. More amps being used more ores being found. I could be wrong

[mandu]

Originally Posted by snake_eyes

I think the affordability of amps has had an impact on ore prices too due to the big crash in metal residue prices. More amps being used more ores being found. I could be wrong

But I don't think you are :p

[Xen]

Originally Posted by mandu

But I don't think you are :p

The metal res and ore amp prices dropped several months ago. The recent drop in ore prices has happened in the last month or so, so I don't think they are connected.

Gold, Val, etc. drops are due to much less expenisve uber finders.

[Turnsleft]

less expensive compared to what? Finders are grossly overpriced, always have been always will be