Everything.

You're hilarious. AFK Colony builders are notoriously bad at DGing/doing lockouts for the most part .

Well EE's shop in FM is the main source for Blizz. And it's buying quite a lot of shit. Think about it. You can't exactly supply that many terraforming projects with just your own extractors. And the augs/ada sheets for kits will have to come from somewhere. If they don't do their own lockouts or have enough to sustain themselves, gotta buy it from the rest of the playerbase.

There is a huge amount of trickle down from colo whores. Much more than you think.

You seem to be suggesting that the reason a given commod has dropped in market price is that it's not being demanded by colony builders. It could just as easily be a problem of overabundance and insufficient item sinks.

HM has dropped in price very hard the past few uni's..

im not a col builder:D but i sell HM's under MC price. lowerd my price to 120b already this uni..making the BP worth 30b (bought loads for this price already) were i bought them for 60-90b last uni...

i do ^with more items then just HM's..prawns wil be next !

In this case obviously the player base is not growing fast enough to keep consuming these ships at the original rate. There may be a few new players filtering through the ranks but it's nothing like the days when relatively few endgame players had gotten HMs and Prawns.

I see nothing wrong with this. Lion commods were worth 100b+ at one time. I don't see anyone complaining that Lions are easier to obtain now and that the commods regularly sell for as low as 5b. Nor should that be taken as evidence that the economy is weak. In fact, declining prices on goods is not unambiguous evidence for a failing economy, either. Why do you consider it a problem in this case?

A lot of the newer bp's have high build costs. Colony builders buy a lot of terraforming commods.

The market sucks because it has been flooded with items due to the broken FC's being able to solo much of the content now.

Also places like The Maus have gotten easier and the drop rates on the Art bp's have seemed to be doubled or tripled the past 2 years.