"even though it has been almost a week since the PS Weekend ended"

Dude, it's been 3 days -_-

The power surge weekend has almost certainly dumped a whole load of crowns into the SK economy. Lots of crowns push up energy prices as people are prepared to pay more because they have more. Maybe a lot of people picked up new recipes so the demand for CE went up. What will most likely happen is that people will use up their excess crowns on all the usual stuff and then decide that CE is too expensive.

When enough people stop buying CE, the price should eventually fall back to a reasonable level that most people are comfortable with.

It's true that speculators could push the price up higher, but after a while it's just them buying and some will make a killing on the market, others will lose fortunes when the market corrects itself. Buying when the price is high is a risky way to make money because the bubble will always burst eventually.

This wasnt a OOO conspiracy to inflate CE. Coin boosters and the heat amp are conspiracys. This was a handful of flowers that just happened to have a bee in it. Though I do miss my 5K CE T_T

I'm trying to figure out if this really is an effect of causation or just correlation.

When demand is high and supply is low, the price of [anything, but put CE here] goes up.

When demand is low and supply is high, (such as a lot of common materials like brimstone and gel drops), the price goes down.

If supply and demand remain the same while the other goes up or down, the price goes up or down accordingly.

Now, since the PSW makes energy half off on elevators, why does it increase the CE crown price? Either supply has dropped (highly doubtful), or demand went up; but why would demand go up? You are now clearing twice as many floors as you would have before, and this takes a long time. The only explanation is that so many people have decided to clear so many floors that they ran out of energy and need even more than usual, which translates to people playing MORE than twice as long as they normally do. Which I still find hard to believe, although entirely possible. Unless previously, people did not use CE to clear floors, and decided to do that for just this weekend.

It's almost 5.9k right now!

Oh, when will the pain end!

I'm trying to figure out if this really is an effect of causation or just correlation.

Well, as I've said a couple of times recently, I don't think the power surge is responsible for much of the increase in the cr<->CE exchange rate, especially this long afterwards.

Now, since the PSW makes energy half off on elevators, why does it increase the CE crown price?

You are right that the demand for CE per floor will go down during a power surge weekend. That is offset by two other things: first, people may well run more than twice as many floors and secondly, since more crowns get fountained into the system, people can pay more for CE (inflation).

It is the latter problem, of too many crowns, that is the real problem. There are always uses for CE, but crowns still have very little value. The more crowns that build up, the more people can bid up the price of CE. You can run gates on mist, but crafting higher level equipment requires CE, and thus it is possible for the cr<->CE exchange rate to go up past the point where the average player make enough crowns running gates to pay for the CE used.

I suspect the current the rise in cr<->CE exchange rate is due to things other than the power surge event that have longer term effects. For example people are no longer playing as much bomberman (which is not only a crown sink, but keeps people out of the clockworks), people are no longer buying the limited-time "battle pack" CE bundle, people are no longer using Punch as much because they have most of their UVs they want, more people have moved out of T1/T2 and into T2/T3, etc.

I'm glad that OOO has added several crown sinks over the last few months, but they need to add many more.

Yeah but some people don't seem to have a business sense at all or buy/sell on impulse. I've seen like lots of Crest of Almire recipes last night for instance selling at a little over 27000 just to cover the cost of buying the recipe, but they don't know about the AH selling price 10% fee that actually makes them lose some money. I don't know if others followed the guy with the lowest price or kept underselling each other or what, but if they're losing money there, I just don't know what makes them work at the CE market where you see 50 cr or more gaps between the top and lower bids.

Also there's no guarantee that you will not need 2 revives if you solo to get profit from mats and depending on what stuff you got on you that you can afford, or if you need to change your strategy plan on other equipment, like seeing if shadow weapons will help get the gremlins in tier 3 on the way to the citadel.

Kaigen hit the nail.

A "player sustained economy" always follows that logic, players determine the prices, if a resource is too cheap/accesible and valuable it will start rising its price until it hits a "balance" point.

To all those topic thinking they can lower the prices if everyone cooperates or agrees and complains to OOO, nice try but you got GG.