What determines the price of Energy/Crowns at the energy market?
Yes, i know its offers made by other players, but what effects those offers?
I would assume that there would be a spike in the market during peak play times, and lower prices during when less players are on, but because Spiral Knights is a worldwide game, i am having a hard time pinpointing those times. I keep getting the feeling that there are crowns to be made by buying low and selling high. I just don't have the resources to check Energy prices each hour, every day, for a week.
TL;DR : What is the best time of day to buy energy.
To fully answer this question would require an entire class in economics, most likely.
To give a short answer. The market is effected by everything and nothing. There are a varied many things that determine what prices are. Including how many crowns are floating around in the player economy at the time. Thus effecting how much energy can be bought. Which effects the demand half of supply and demand. One of the things that can effect the market is simple imagination. If people THINK something is true, then it can become true. Dire economic crisis in the real world can be caused by this. The market can also be purposefully manipulated by underhanded means. Sometimes. Other times the market stubbornly refuses to shift for anything.
So everything and nothing effects the market. You can only go along for the ride and take advantage when given the opening.