You do realize its a player-run-economy so Three Rings will not intervene?

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>Buying CE will be more expensive. :(

Buying will stay the same price. 7,500 for 19.95. pftt

Why would Three Rings want energy prices to EVER go down?

CE should be as expensive as possible for crowns, to encourage people to buy energy with IRL money.

That is the "obvious" conclusion to make, that the higher the cr<->CE exchange rate goes, the better it is for OOO. That may well not be true at all.

When the cr<->CE exchange rate goes up, people (both F2P and P2P) have only a few options. They can quit playing the game, which large numbers of people did before the steam players came. This is bad for OOO a number of reasons, including reduced word-of-mouth advertising, etc. They can cut back on how much CE they use to run gates and instead maximize the free Mist Energy. This is bad for OOO since OOO is giving away mist for free. Or, they could, as you propose, buy CE with RL money. Conversion of F2P to P2P is generally good, but not if it causes a net loss of revenue because instead of players buying 10% of their CE with real money, they are no longer playing and are now buying nothing.

Another thing that happens when the cr<->CE exchange rate goes up is that people who P2P have to sell less CE to get the same amount of crowns. The number of crowns used to buy recipes and craft doesn't change, so if the exchange rate of CE goes from 2.5k to 7.5k, P2P players can sell a third of the CE to get the same equipment and therefore they may well not buy as much CE.

When CE is "cheap", people will waste a lot with reviving, energy doors, crafting stuff just to see what it is like, etc. While OOO gets the RL money when the CE is bought, not when it is sunk, they still want lots of CE sunk in order to keep sales coming in.

What is really critical for OOO to do is change the game so that people don't buy CE with real money because they want the energy, but rather people should want to buy CE with real money in order to get crowns. This is what often happens with OOO's puzzle pirate's game. All it takes to get CE is to open your wallet, and even teenagers can get 50k CE if they *really* wanted, they often pay that much for their shoes. Crowns, on the other hand, can only be gained by playing the game. If getting crowns is what people think about, then selling CE is easy for OOO.

It is quite possible that the maximum amount of CE sold by OOO could be around 50-75% of what the average player gets from 100CE. Yes, people could run gates forever, but that's the point. They are spending hours and hours playing the game, at an effective hour pay rate of maybe $0.25/hr, so that other players (with less time and more money) can get the crowns to do critical stuff. If only the game was changes so that crowns were need for critical stuff. >.<

If prices go up then prices will go up!

Wow. Just... wow.

I was trying to figure out if the "000" was meant to be somewhat satirical, but I'm really not sure. I have very little faith for the people who post threads about energy.

At least the ZOMG ENERGY post are less frequent now.

Less frequent? Ever since Steam players started playing, it's been every other thread.

At first i had my rage face on.

But then I lolled.

since the arrival of steam players, ce prices went down, possibly with them using cash to buy energy.

But a second factor exist: the number of players...
The ce prices came to 7k+ just before the steam patch, and all over, i heard players saying (and really doing it) quitting the game.
gate player count on the Jelly gate (which usually garners most players) go to a maximum 400 players.
Now, there are 1k+ plus players ALWAYS...

this means the number of players should have equaled the need for higher ce cost.
But a third factor now shows.
That many players wanted their crowns to cost more CE!

I attribute Runescape disease to the threads. Yes it is a disease.

It will require, on a per-unit basis, more digital currency, unique to the game, to acquire the crystallized form of energy, or work.

I think a solution to this problem would fix it.

If players buy cheaper CE then players do not spend much to buy CE.

also, to say OOO doesnt intervene with the energy prices is a load of ecto drops. anyone remember the "haven expansion". sure, we got a WHOLE AUCTION HOUS AND TRAINING ROOM, but we allso had weapon prices essentially triple, weapon trading essentially removed, and iono, 1/4 - 1/2 the playerbase up in arms/quit?

hey im 12 and what is this? youre saying more crowns will be required for more expensive crystal energy? as opposed to less crowns for less expensive crystal energy? please help me out im kinda new to this game!!