And This Little Pilot Went to Market
In this article I will be doing a brief overview of the market in EVE Online. Let’s cover just some of the basics that will allow you to navigate the market and get your items safely and at the best price. I will be making the assumption that you are new to EVE Online so forgive me is some of this is real basic.
Let’s start by first opening your market window. This can be done in station by the menu on the right or in space by using the market button on your ‘neocom’ on the left. The first thing I want you to do is to open the setting tab and make the following changes. In the right hand side window, across the top is a series of tabs, select the tab marked ‘Settings’. Deselect all check boxes except “Display Orders in High Security Systems” and “Automatically Refresh Market Data”
These changes will restrict your search for items to High Security space, no sense in spending your ISK for an item in Low Sec space just to get blown up trying to get at it or worse getting you and the item blown up trying to get out.
Now let’s get back to the main window. Let’s first adjust the range to cover the whole region. On the left hand side near the top there is a drop down menu, ‘Range Filter’, this menu adjust your range to the Station, the Solar System or the Region, select Region. At the bottom of the main window in the browse tab, deselect the check mark for “Show Only Available”. This check box will filter out those items that are not available in your range. Right now I want you to see the whole list of items available through the market. This is a great source of information later on.
Now at the top of the left hand side of this window we have three tabs, Browse, Search, and Quick market. The browse tab allows you to see the full list of items available on the open market in EVE Online. I should note at this time that this is not the total list of items in EVE, some items are not available on the open market but are only valuable though an mission agent or the Contracts area. The search tab is where you can search for an item if you are unsure of the location in the browse tab. Just type part of the name of an item in the search box and hit search. All items containing this phrase in its title will appear in the area below, and then it’s just a matter of clicking on the name to get the information. The final tab, ‘Quickbar’ is your person shopping list area, these are items that you select to be here and I use for frequents searches like minerals or ammo.
In the Browse tab we find a list of header areas that all the items are place under. Ammunition would be under ‘Ammunition and Charges’, Skills under ‘Skills’ etc… Simply click on the header to open a drop down list of other menu items until you reach the item you want. For example let’s look for ‘Mining I’ lasers. This would be under ‘Ships Equipment’, ‘Turrets and Launchers’, ‘Mining Lasers’ and again ‘Mining Lasers’.
Once we get to the lowest level of the menu a list of items will appear on the left hand side window and on the right hand side a list giving us the description and price of each item. There are two buttons here also, ‘Buy’ and ‘Show Details’. Lets press the ‘View Details’ button on the ‘Miner I’. This changes our view for this item. In the upper portion we have all the sellers and the lower all the buyers. Here’s a small fact/tip, if you look at the column marked ‘Expires In’ and see anything over 100 days, this is a Non Player Character (NPC) buyer or seller. Not all NPC buyers or sellers offer the best price, but it is a good base line price for the item. At the top of each list are a series of headers that will allow you to sort by these headers. On the Sellers select ‘Price’ until the lowest price is at the top of the list (small white arrow pointing up), and on the Buyers select ‘Price’ until the highest price is at the top of the list (small white arrow pointing down).
Now you can decide where you want to buy based on price and range. To buy an item simply right click on the seller line and select ‘Buy This’ and it will be done. Then is just a matter of picking the item up from your hanger in that station. You can also set the autopilot by right clicking the seller or buyer line and under Location select destination or waypoint. It’s a good idea to do this first in case you bought the last item, or you can always looking in your ‘Assets’ menu in the NeoCom.
If you have any question about and item, you can select the blue dot, or right click of the item on the item line to ‘Show Info’. Remember to look under the items ‘Prerequisites’ to see if you can use the item and what skills you need to use it before investing your ISK. Right clicking on the left hand side list will also give you the opportunity to add this item to your ‘Quickbar’ list so you can find it quickly.
After a while you may want to play with some of the settings depending on your needs, but the one I gave you above will be the safest way for you to shop around.
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Until next time, Fly safe
Reggi Mental
