Category Economics

How to Save Time and Lose Money

Remember when I was sorting through the items left over from my mission-running days? It turns out that selling items is substantially more complicated than just pressing “sell” on each item. The fundamental tradeoff is between how badly you want to get an optimum price for each item and how much time you want to [...]

Items Don’t Grow On Trees

There are a ton of different kinds of items in EVE. Broadly, the categories of stuff are (leaving out space station-related stuff, and some other fringe item types for simplicity):

Ships
Stuff you equip on a ship to change its abilities (“fittings” or “equipment”)
Stuff you use to build ships + equipment that goes on ships
Ammo

Within each of [...]