Market Prices

[Mr.Mind]

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post about this, but I have been busy for the past week. I would like to know how the cooldown values have affected the market. New prices?

[bkc56]

From what I've seen, I don't think there's been much effect, yet.

 

First, people were making things like crazy in the days before the update so there is no shortage of stock yet to drive up prices.

 

Second, between the use of Feasting Potions and the fact that mix times have been reduced for most everything, people can make as much or more of any given item than before the cooldown (lots of posts by people saying "I've never made X as fast as this before"). So people who have stopped making things because of the cooldown just might be covered by others making at a higher rate.

 

Finally, the cost of FPs is such that it only adds a small amount to the cost of making stuff. That extra cost may not be enough to compensate for stock-on-hand and continued mass-production. The one exception might be items that take large amounts of food (like some rings) such that you're basically using 1 FP per item (so the cost might, in theory, go up 10 gc or so).

 

Bottom line - it's going to take a while for current stock to get used up so we can see what the market really does in response to cooldown (and the use of FPs). The one month trial is not so people can see how it works (most had it figured out before the update or within days after the update), but to give the market time to respond to changes in cost and production. Once the market stabalizes we'll be able to see what effect the cooldown had on supply/demand and market prices.

[MagpieLee]

I agree there hasn't been much of an effect.

With FPs, we've seen things made faster - the price will increase because of the added expenditure. However, these changes are small. Also, since things (potions, essences, bars, rings etc) are priced within a range we might not see any notice for a while

[Mr.Mind]

Thanks for the info. I'm afraid I still won't be able to play EL for another week due to real life business, but I am doing my best to keep up with the changes (I've only been online once, for an hour, since cooldown has been activated).

 

I am curious to see what affect this will have, since I have been waiting for something like this for such a long time. If possible, I would like someone to post major changes they see in this topic so it will all be in one place (I'm not looking for criticizm, just raw data).