Spiral Knights - Fixed energy prices?

Fixed energy prices?

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Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:52

Jazer

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I've been playing long enough to see crystal energy cost rise from 4000cr to almost 7000cr now. I used to be able to make enough cr in 1 jelly king run to pay for or almost pay for 200Ce, using about 80-100 of that to go again i could make a good profit and rise decently quick in the game. Now though, due to the rise in Ce even with a JK run (the most profitable runs available) actual progress in the game is slowed. True this draws this great game out longer, but with so little to do it could make the game boring for newer players or players that were or are working on their 5 star gear. Therefore I propose a FIXED CE PRICE. This would stabilize the market indefinately, no matter what anyone does this game is full of different kinds of players and the players with more money and are already higher up that push the Ce price higher and higher because they have nothing else to buy along with the new players who never knew the old Ce prices that just get what they can and very slowly progress; make this game harder for other intermediate players.

I propose a price of 5000 crowns. This is in my experience is relatively fair considering how much the average player makes in normal runs and boss runs.

Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:00

Madadder

like this havent been suggest

like this havent been suggest about a thousand times

i do agree the prices are outrageous but im pretty sure OOO will remain silent on this issue since it's a player operated economy

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 10:58

DevilXTreme

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@monkeyman135

Thats just not fair

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:01

Madadder

hows is it not fair? its the

hows is it not fair? its the fault of the players not OOO and this actually prompts people to purchasing money with real money

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:32

mouton_noir

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Life is not fair. If there is

Life is not fair.

If there is a fixed price for CE, more likely than not no one will sell it and/or people will trade ce outside of the official system.

You forget that for ce to be put in the market, someone has to pay real money. With crowns becoming less and less important, they have no reason to sell their CE at all.

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 17:08

ConsoliBR

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Semi-intervention policy

It IS a fact that a full liberal economy in the game WILL break the market someday(something like the world-wide economic crisis we've sufered in real life). To prevent or even stop something like that, the owners of the game (?OOO/SEGA?) need to lower the value of CE interventing in the market.
So, my 2 sugestions to OOO are:

I. Inject CE on the market(for a price, of course), so the crowns would valorize compared to CE.

or...

II. Create some kind of "energy condenser/cristalyzer", so that a LOT of myst energy can be transformed into some crystal energy(the proportions and maybe the crowns cost to do so is up to OOO). This would directly lower the value of CE, but unfortunately incentivate the usage of bots... =P

I know that any of these measures would cause a (significant or lesser)reduction on the real cash market(US$ for CE), that is a source of income to the company, but from my friends group (4+me), 3 of my friends stopped playing cause the CE prices were too high AND still increasing.

I think that the solution to the CE matter is one of those measures OR a code of rules to the CE/crowns market.

For me, this game is the best MMOArcade game (with coop!) that i ever played. I always forget that im playing a browser game....

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 19:36

Kahryl

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I am getting sick of all the

I am getting sick of all the crying about energy-crown exchange rates. The exchange rate is completely reasonable BY DEFINITION because just as many players are buying energy as selling it. If it's unreasonable for YOU then just BUY CRYSTAL ENERGY WITH DOLLARS.

And I say this as someone who hasn't spent a dime on the game and gets all his crystal energy from the market. The increase in the price has hurt me, but instead of crying I just go deeper into T3 :)

If they set some artificial cap on the price of CE, players would just make exchanges in person.

Sat, 06/11/2011 - 19:39

Njthug

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I support this if the energy prices are fixed at 25k Crowns per 100 Ce

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