One person trying to crash the energy market?
Good luck. You'll need it. You'd have to make up for every single other person on the server, with all of their crowns and energy. Unless you've got thousands of dollars to spend the energy you post cheaply will simply sell out near instantly and go right back up to where it was. =/

Right now it's only about 5k.

ha! this is a plan to fail!

First, 5kcr per 100CE seems like a fine exchange rate to me. Even T1 runs can earn you more than that, so anyone with a fairly minimal level of skill can run gates forever.

Second, as mentioned above, a few players are unlikely to make any significant impact on the market, certainly not one that will last for days, probably not even for hours. Remember, OOO already has to be selling enough CE to pay salaries for quite a few GMs and developers. Unless you are working with thousands of dollars worth of CE (millions of CE), you simply can not make an impact.

Third, even if you have enough CE, that CE would have had to have been sold by OOO. Threatening to crash the CE market is about as scary to OOO as threatening to buy out a store is to a shopkeeper. Yeah, go ahead, throw money at OOO and try to hurt them!

Last, while players control the particular number of the cr<->CE exchange rate, OOO controls the general range by the way the game is designed. In particular, the AH, Vice and bomberman appear to have added significant crown sinks to the game. Vice also reduced the need to craft somewhat, thereby reducing the demand for CE. So, while more crown sinks are needed, it is quite possible that we will never see 7kcr per 100CE again.

Lemme know when you're about to crash it. I'll sell all my CE before it starts, buy CE for all my crowns afterwards.

If you want to shove crystal energy prices down to 2k crowns for 100 CE and get it to stay there as anything more than a temporary blip, I think you're going to need at least a couple orders of magnitude more crystal energy than you think you will.

I hope I'm on when you do this.

Considering you will certainly need to pay $ to get enough CE to 'crash' or control the market, I'm sure OOO would love for you to try. They have a spending ceiling but you can ask them to raise it for you.

While a guild could make a temporary change, the market is just too big and basic to make serious changes too without spending lots of resources. New content and players opinions shape energy prices. I also value CE at around 5K per 100CE, thus I generally buy when it's lower and sell when it's higher.

OOO isn't gonna change the system, because it's not broken.

I hate to burst your bubble, but 114,400 CE is only 1144 units on the market. I have seen 500 unit walls blown through in an hour; your wall will have all the lifespan of a snowball in hell (exothermic hell, of course). This is after you expend about 500 units to get the price down to your target in the first place. The only way such a plan could work is if you managed to get the backing of a significant percentage of all in-game CE: for example, if you and your followers had 10% of ALL in-game CE at your disposal, I would believe that you could bring CE prices to 2k and keep them there for a week or more. As it stands, you may have a difficult time even reaching 2k per 100CE, let alone maintaining it. I urge you to reconsider your plans, unless you wish to fulfill the old adage "A fool and his money are soon parted."

I just hope the "crash" will last long enough for me to spend 100k crowns on CE.

i dont think you can really call this a "crash" though my terminology might be off. a crash would require mass amounts of people making investments, then trying to sell for a higherprice with the bank not having enough monney to pay back. then, the people would have to be scared and mass into the back to try to get the monmey. this would leave the bank pennyless and have no way to pay upkeep, thus closeing the bank and leaving everyone high and dry. this will fail, for the game economy is computer generated, i.e. it has an infinate amount in its bank.

another crash could mean the game crashes. this requires so many people doing the same thing at once on a small server. this being an mmo, this is unlikely to happen to many poeple.

all that this "crash" will do is give opportunity to the masses of people who have too many cr to know what to do with. they will buy out all the cheap CE until they have no cr left, sell it for higher, and repeaty this process. even when the market evens out, the people can save the CE until the buying rate increases enough to be profitable, and this whole fiasco will happen again. It will be a matter of days before the price rises up to 4-5k again.

the only feasable way that this plan could work is if you and your band of players constantly kept the prices down at your said price. OOO will be doing nothing to prevent it, for it is user based. they will have no hand in it at all.

regardless, good luck. it might be nice to max out my CE bar to 99999. of course, the game would no longer be challenging and people would no longer have to really work for their things, but thats for another thread entirley.

p.s. excuse my grammar and spelling mistakes. im not on my own computer and i dont think this one has word, or some other form of grammar and spell check

Hahahaha sorry but this is so funny. XD
Almost like a 5 year old saying "I'm gonna be the president one day! :D "
Big plans, very very little chance to achieve them.

It's just that your proposed action and goal are entirely at odds. No matter how you use the system energy is being consumed and ooo makes money. The only way to boycott the system is to boycott the game and not play or buy energy. Amassing energy to sell it for cheap is essentially a charitable work that will make more people want to play the game just how it is.

I dont know about you guys, but I for one, as a player that won't spend a single penny on this game... LOVE THIS IDEA!
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Announcing your intentions before hand will flaw your result. It will be impossible to tell if the energy prices will decrease simply because everybody is selling expecting this to happen, or if people stop buying anticipating this event, or if you really are actively trying to manipulate prices. It's entirely possible that people are thinking you've got something to gain from the result and simply won't play into your hands.

In fact I bet the vast majority just see this as a plot to get them to sell all of their energy off cheap, where you'll be waiting to buy it all up at 2/5-1/2 the cost.

Any of the people planning or joining to crash the market might just be one of the few who wanted to be present when this golden opportunity is presented and stock up as much ce as he wants, cheaply.

Don't mind me, I'm just skeptical.