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I have read in this forum how players are having a hard time building ships/modules due to CCP adding extra steps to the manufacturing process and how there are price discrepancies between materials and the finished products.
Do you think that could be a factor?
I don’t know enough about the Hauling industry to venture a guess tho, although gate-camping/ganking could contribute to a shortage of items in those hubs.
I see someone hauled about 300k scourge rage rockets to Hek today.
CCP made their choice when they killed niarja. I will point out CCP made the decision amarr and jita should be linked, and keeping them so far apart is ■■■■■■■ stupid many years ago. So much so CCP increased sec status of certain systems to bring amarr and jita closer together.
Since then CCPs senses have left them and they decided this link is no longer needed.
Make your choice with you wallet 
I recently fitted out several ships in Amarr space. It was quite literally (no exaggeration) +20-25% more expensive than if I’d bought everything in Jita.
I made the difference back in a few hours, but the hit to my wallet didn’t go unnoticed. Unless you absolutely, positively have to access the local regional market - you’re almost always further ahead buying in Jita and lugging it around to where you need it.
Yep, Amarr is a bit more expensive than Jita.
On the other hand, if you’re near Amarr it means you save the time or money of importing things from Jita if you buy locally.
I’ve been buying and selling a lot in Amarr lately. Saves me time that I don’t have to spend going all the way to Jita and back, and it also stimulates the local market.
If everyone who wanted local markets bought and sold at local markets, we’d have more local markets. Instead most people won’t mind spending extra time to save a little ISK by trading in Jita instead, which is why most other markets are dead.
Now if it wasn’t as convenient to trade at Jita, for example if CCP:
- cut up short connections between other trade hubs and Jita too like they did with Amarr
- introduced risk to filaments to nerf the risk-free Pochven express to Jita
- made ganking more accessible
then maybe other market hubs would live.
But now, with Jita right next door, there is no reason for other markets to exist. Jita is simply too convenient.
Glass half-full matey. You’re looking at it the wrong way.
I’ve basically read the second sentence repeatedly for 14 years…
ive already provided the solution…
If you are complaining about fitting stuff, especially for meta modules…
Then get off your Arse and run some missions…if it rigs…again get off your Arse, get some BPO’s, run some missions or data/relic sites, get some salvage and build them…if its things that require moon goo, minerals, PI…guess what im going to say?
If you do not know how to indy, or are to LAZY to do indy…stop bitching and moaning, and STFU cause you then part of the problem if all you want to do is fit up your ship and go like some dayum Gen Z’r that believe steaks only come from the grocery store with no understanding of the farming process.
