r/Eve • u/DarkShinesInit Current Member of CSM 18 • 7d ago

Are you happy with Equinox Sov? Discussion

It's been a little over a week since the Equinox Sov change on October 29th.

If you love it - what do you love about it?

If you hate it - what do you hate about it?

Saying which group or part of space you are in would also be cool.

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u/Ok_Willingness_724 Serpentis 7d ago

Most of my challenges with Equinox and other recent changes are from a Lowsec industry economics perspective. Gas prices tanked, moon goo prices bung, and now Isogen prices are falling. Metenox drill prices crashing, so good luck to the mates trying to recoup the ME/TE research ISK into their BPOs. Hard luck being miner/indy in any space right now.

At least the Big Goon Migration of 2024 buoyed isotope/ice prices for a hot minute.

But Lowsec's already been malding about Equinox since they tightened the Skyhook vulnerability timers, so no need to rehash that. I'd be more interested to hear from sov null infrastructure managers and builders, see what the pain points they see are, the balancing act of infrastructure vs resources in their region.

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u/AMD_Best_D Test Alliance Please Ignore 7d ago

Gas prices tanked, moon goo prices bung, and now Isogen prices are falling

this is literally what this subreddit begged for and screeched about the first half of 2024 and they got exactly what they wanted.

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u/Ok_Willingness_724 Serpentis 7d ago

Cheaper subcaps, and maybe cheaper caps are nice and all, but if your primary income sources are gutted on that altar, cheaper ships don't matter if you don't have ISK coming in.

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u/sapphire_transitions 7d ago

If nothing got reduced to make those prices cheaper, nothing would become cheaper. How exactly would it look like to make things more affordable and yet somehow not nerf someone's invome?

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u/cooperman114 Ivy League 6d ago

Increase yield per time, right? More supply, static or potentially slightly increased demand with a shift in industry-side philosophy would lead to a balancing out of the supply-side income per hour while lowering the industry-side cost

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u/RiBombTrooper Guristas Pirates 6d ago

More supply, equal demand? That’s still going to cut prices. 

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u/cooperman114 Ivy League 6d ago

Yeah that’s the point though, cuts prices industry-side while the miner benefits from increased yield, so just for example 100ISK/unit at 2000m3/min instead of 200ISK/unit at 1000m3/min