Market hubs are centralized player-run markets. They generally have the baseline price for products, with prices getting higher and higher the farther you are away from a market hub – reaching their peak in 0.0 space. More importantly, they have a far broader range of available products available than most areas of space.
It is always a good idea to have at least one throw-away market alt that does nothing but sit in a station at a high traffic system, for checking prices, selling/buying items that you need, or playing the market. An informed consumer is a smart consumer. Eve-Central is a web site that does this for you, but their prices are often out of date by hours or days, sometimes drastically so –nevertheless, that site is still a good baseline for when you are in a hurry or feeling lazy.
Typically, each Empire region will have its own main market hub station with maybe one or two smaller hubs located in a system with a lot of mission agents.
| Geographic Area | Region | System(s) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Empire | The Forge | Jita-Perimeter-Niyabainen | Caldari space, biggest hub in game. Lots of markets (like moon mineral and tech two components) only exist in Jita. See also Sobaseki, Motsu. |
| Eastern Empire | Heimatar | Rens | Main Minmatar space hub |
| Western Empire | Sinq Laison | Dodixe | Main Gallente space hub |
| Southern Empire | Domain | Amarr-Penirgman | Main Amarr space hub, see also Kor-Azor Prime, Tash-Murkon Prime, Dresi |
| Geographic Area | Region | System(s) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Empire | The Citadel | Kaunokka | N/A |
| Northern Empire | The Citadel | Motsu | 3 jumps from Jita |
| Northern Empire | The Citadel | Isaziwa | N/A |
| Northern Empire | Lonetrek | Sobaseki | Adjacent to Jita |
| Northern Empire | Lonetrek | Nonni | N/A |
| Northern Empire | Lonetrek | Torrinos | Adjacent to EC-P8R in Pure Blind |
| Western Empire | Sinq Laison | Dodixie-Auvergne | Probably the largest hub in Gallente space |
| Western Empire | Sinq Laison | Jel | N/A |
| Western Empire | Essence | Oursulaert-Renyn | N/A |
| Western Empire | Placid | Orvolle | Adjacent to PF-346 in Syndicate |
| Western Empire | Placid | Stacmon | N/A |
| Western Empire | Solitude | Octanneve | Yes, people live in Solitude. |
| Western Empire | Verge Vendor | Alentene-Cistuvaert | N/A |
| Eastern Empire | Heimatar | Pator | Directly adjacent to a Minmatar starting station in Ammold |
| Eastern Empire | Metropolis | Hek | Also happens to be the only entrance, highsec or otherwise, to the Minmatar COSMOS constellation. |
| Eastern Empire | Molden Heath | Gelfiven-Teonusude | 3 jumps from Pator. |
| Southern Empire | Domain | Mista | Closest highsec system to R3-K7K, a station system in Providence. |
| Southern Empire | Khanid | Agil | Closest highsec station system to the famed Keberz-HED-GP highsec-to-0.0 jump. |
| Southern Empire | Kador | Dresi | 4 jumps from Amarr. |
| Southern Empire | Kor-Azor | Kor-Azor Prime | Adjacent to Amarr, also sits on the direct Amarr-Agil route. |
| Southern Empire | Tash-Murkon | Tash-Murkon Prime | 2 jumps from Amarr. |
| Southern Empire | Tash-Murkon | Esa | Closest station system to a highsec-0.0 jump, Kari-Y-MPWL in Providence. |
| Southern Empire | Derelik | Jarizza | N/A |
(feel free to add here, these are only examples)