Why isn't there anyone mining and producing the light and assaults for the market?

Well they are few and far between.  The population has taken a significant nose dive and most of them have been on the industry side here lately

Alex, think if you have travel to 3 different regions in eve to build a single ship. yay!

Edit: 2 not 3. But still....

I do not recommend T1 but T0 seeded stuff, otherwise the carefully build T1 market will collapse.

Also the resource distribution does not work well with 2 common resources missing on alpha islands, it is too much hassle to create something simple, 1 common resource missing might work not 2.

I'm not saying make T1 so cheap it is impossible, but just put it there, so new players don't log in and be like, Oh, I'm in my new arbalest and I want to try to get a missle launcher on the bot, oh wait theres none on the market.... I have to travel 2 hours to get one missle launcher...hmmm... I wonder what eve is like?  This is a new player thought pattern.

I think it'll take one guy, since there are new people coming into the game right now. I do believe assaults cannot be build from alpha stuff alone?

Missions can be tied to lvl 1 items. Hauling missions, mining missions, combat missions.

starting with ammo. The efficiency of the Terminal can be associated with the faction.  Green would make missiles with less materials then a blue island. Players could recycle loot for the mission ores, or commodities. They could mine the ores, commodities. Or buy from another island that the ores/commodities are cheaper, then the island he is currently on.

Making a light or assault could be tied to missions also..a bonus in ore/commodities for packing sand from point x to point z.  This way the rookie would have a hand in the production of items he,,or his friends would want.

Rumors has it that tired items will not be in the recipe for future builds.  This will enable the market items to stick on the market floor without producers scarfing them up to make T4 gear.

With the number of items needed a time buffer will be available before saturation of the market with gear from missions.  We want the rookies to do the missions to get that gun, or armor, or bot. How to make it so the market is not sitting on 100k of small auto cannons, from a wash and rinse mission cycle?  One way is to have a cargo mission to haul x amount of small auto cannons to y terminal, for salvage, which puts the commodities in the hauler's pocket, with the wastage in the efficiency ratios. If haulers deplete a market of a item, that is not bad, because a mission will be available for any player that wants that item.  It is not profitable to haul one or two items, small amounts will stick on a floor, but a hauler might take 100 of 100 items if they are available...which would put a bonus on the first mission generated for that item.

The desire for the player base to address the needs of new players is cool.  I see way more T1 items on the market then before, so some peeps are trying to help.  We can help by not exploiting this generosity by taking 12 of 12 chem armors to make T2 chem armors.  Its not easy but needed for the benefit of the game...

Community,  Player generated missions, could be formed from the demand part of the market.  A rookie puts guns, armor, ammo, he wants in the demand market.  No missions are generated for anything past T2.  The market generates a mission for either the item, that is available somewhere else. Or the player is pointed to the missions that will generate the items he wants, along with the same mission available to multiple terminals. I want a gun, the gun is three islands away, a mission is generated from all the alpha terminals for the same gun.  If i am at the terminal that the gun is sitting, my mission pays, x amount. If i am a island away, it pays, y amount, if two islands away, it pays z amount.

If my mission standing is good with a alpha island, a speed bonus might be available, or tp cooldown is shortened, or cheers when i dock..lol. I remember fondly a sexy girls voice, saying through my console.  "There is a foreign object attached to your hull" when another peep had attached a magnetic bomb to my tank...and a 20 second timer started that ended with a boom.

Cheers..

Just to prove Ville wrong I'm undertaking an attempt to fully seed the T1 market. If someone could take it up to start supplying the market with reasonably priced Epriton and Noralgis, assaults might be interesting to produce too (I'm not sure about the turnover on the short term).

While we're on that subject:
- market order modification delay: 10 min. is too long
- remote order modification: get it in there
- remote asset management in general could use a kick in the butt

All starter zones (TM Alpha, ICS Alpha, Asintec Alpha) would be a good start.

edit: yeah you're right on the T1, wrinkled brain and all that

well, we will get player transport missions for the transport (patch announcement)

but
1. it will lower the profit margin
2. as long as i cannot remotely access the items at the destination, i have to get there per spark teleport - aka another cost factor.
3. theres no guaranteed demand for the bots, i have to pre-built tons of them. lights are just a stepping stone to assaults, and sometimes to mechs. (see light bot discussion)

Honestly, it's not really the market skills, nor the effort transporting, but the time/cost on T1 production. 3 NIC/second with costly extensions related to manufacturing time. Then add commodities, transport and market fee, and you'll end up with a gap between what starting players can afford and the point it's going to be worth it. I mean, raw materials aren't free.

I'm still figuring things out, maybe I'd even have to open a dreaded spreadsheet. But I got some loans, I have the extensions and equipment, it should be doable. Then again, those newbs should have to work for it a little!