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An interesting development in Eve:
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?11617-Goonswarm-Shrugged-The-Gallente-Ice-Interdiction

tl~dr Goons are targeting and destroying a component of production to have fun and as a consequence manipulate the market.

This could be the start of a new era of unrestrained capitalism.  There's no legislation in Eve to force players to be fair and I'm sure there are many components that are a choke point for production.  I'm looking forward to watching other power blocks have their own fun. 

The economics of Eve in 0.0 have to this point been fairly basic, moon goo = wealth and that has driven many a 0.0 conflict.  Now with the larger alliances having ridiculous amounts of isk a whole new paradigm appears.  0.0 wars might now be visited on Empire with 10 hour heroes (characters created solely for ganking), component stockpiling and trillions of isk for the taking. 

Well you can add PL hoarding tech (http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?11645-We-re-talking-our-ball-and-going-home-The-Pandemic-Legion-Tech-Cartel-Thread) to that. Though that doesn't need 10 hour heroes given it's a purely null and low sec resource. Interesting times.

What woulld work even better would be for the Goons and the DRF to conspire to price fix tech up even higher than it would naturally go with PL's freezing of their supply.

I'm leaning towards this being a troll.

Possibly, or trying to spook the market, or CCP into nerfing it.

Then again the new-NC would gain a lot from controlling the tech market rather than the current approach, so they certainly have the motivation.

Manipulating the market is the only fun I have in Eve anymore.

I may or may not have caused a few things to explode in an ice belt myself. The discussions popping up about poor space eskimos being terrorized by Ayn Rand fanatics in different public channels across Eve is fun to watch, I got to hand it to the GSF finance team for thinking up an idea that everyone has taken notice of. You could blame it on the lull going on right now with supercapitals not exploding as frequently as a few months ago. Even the video game political scene has taken this opportunity to start their campaigns against the current CSM thanks to it, with the ever favorite Trebor Daehdoowho coming up with such a pubbie base winning slogan as "Mittani is entirely acting within accepted rules, but he's still a douche for doing it."

Seeing Mackinaws with double Basilisks permarepping them with a handful of shield drones though is different. Challenge accepted is all that we're saying.

Of course he's being a douche about it. He's the goon leader, he's supposed to be a douche about it.

I don't see why this should be a surprise to trebor. Whiner.

So, you're basically saying that Hulkageddon has been extended to mackinaws or whatever the ice mining ship is, right?  I don't see why this would be shocking news to anyone.

Well if you'd read the article linked in the OP it would explain.  

I don't know about "shocking" news but it's different because they are targeting just ONE type of ice and trying to keep empire mining from being able to keep up with demand.  It isn't just random Jihad, it's targeted to try and mess up the economy.

Still waiting for him to explain why this is a douche move and invading a system isn't.

The only distinction I can think of is that it's done at the cost of people who thinks they're safe.

Well, there has been 0.0 dwellers who have prayed to god for help, but that's just crazytalk.

It would screw over Gaylente cap ships too.

No, I didn't think anyone would care... :oops:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w

There was a tech cartel during the reign of the NC.  When they were replaced by the current Northern grouping we sat them down, had a few words with them and the price quickly rose again as they sold it the "right" way.

I'm pretty certain that the PL thing is a complete troll inspired by our ice campaign, since all they would really do is withhold some tech and make even more profit for the rest of the cartel.  Mainly by tons of their towers going offline given the mass nationalisation that that post spoke of.

I read on another board that this coincides with PL's 3 month occupation of the moons and may be part of their contract with DRF that is now expiring.