Mining Scan Window – How is the ISK Value Calculated?

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So I’ve been using the new mining scan window in EVE Online, and I noticed something that confused me a bit.

The window shows things like Volume, Distance, and also an ISK “Value” for each asteroid. But I’m seeing cases where Veldspar (III Grade) shows a higher ISK value than Scordite (III Grade).

I thought Scordite was generally more valuable, so now I’m wondering:

Is this ISK value based on regional market prices, some kind of average (like Jita?), or is it calculated differently (like mineral yield × estimated price)?

Just trying to understand what I’m actually looking at before I trust it too much while mining.

Thanks!

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Good question and one I do not know the answer to.

I do recall that CCP mentioned the version they added in the update which brought the mining scan window wasn’t final yet, and that they wanted to improve the accuracy of the ISK value by calculating it based on mineral values (like many miners already do) instead of ore values.

But I do not know if this update happened yet, or if it did, which mineral values it takes: regional or some kind of universal average.

I’d be glad to hear more of it.

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I have always taken it for an estimate, as in I estimated my bank account once and got an overdraft. I play with my internet browser open most of the time. I look at where I plan to sell ( Jita of course ) using EVE Tycoon.

Current example; Game while in Lonetrek tells me Jaspet 327 ISK - Jita from EVE Tycoon Jaspet selling at 540 / buying at 341.5. Meanwhile the Lonetrek market sell/buy prices are 600/400. I assume the estimate must be universal.

BTW it is likely to be a weighted average. While the Lonetrek buy price is greater, it is only wanting +7K units. After that the price here drops to 98.

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evetycoon.com is your bff for market prices. Also “goon appraisal” appraise.gnf.lt is great too because you can select everything in your inventory, ctrl-c, then paste it into the websites box and get the prices of everything at once. Make sure to select the market where you will be selling at in the settings.

I’ve always assumed the displayed tooltip value was based on some game average of listed selling prices over a couple weeks. The prices being what people wanted to sell at and not what people were actually buying at. Which made the tooltip value vastly inflated .

For example, when the Drone data sites (the ones that count towards the gallente event) first came out the loot from those cans didn’t have tooltip value, although they were selling for 700k each at the time. Now they show with a tooltip value that is much higher than what people are buying at.

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Aren’t those drops bought by NPCs at a flat 1m each?