Spiral Knights - CE prices vs crown yield

CE prices vs crown yield

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Sat, 05/19/2012 - 08:35

Punkbread

As of now, the ratio of CE prices vs the crown yield from levels is all whack.
I know i'm not the only one when I say that aquiring CE is more of a chore now than ever, and i feel like im trying to fish acorns out of a swimming pool of peanut butter using chopsticks. Of course, the GM's are the only ones who can actually do anything about this, so I hope they do. But if I may, I'd like to propose some possible solutions.

We could:

Lower the CE cost, and possibly set a cap on it, or just use a flat price. 7.7k crowns for 100 ce is ridiculous y'all.

Players would get more crowns from missions and normal levels. I'm thinking something along the golden age of 13-14k crowns for a vana run.

This is not in Suggestions 'cause methinks it's more of a discussion-and-solution type thing. This would make the game more fun, and more like a game, rather than an ordeal. It would be phenomenal if everyone could buy tons of the CE packages and other assorted goodies, but that's not the case.

Have a beautiful day.

- Punk

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 08:36

Rangerwillx

Or, you could stop whining and live with it.

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 08:40

Tenkii

forgot one factor

how about the CE / mist cost to get the crown yield? it's totally broken.

we should fix it, hopefully within 6 hours

@___@

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 09:01

Spectrumized

0/10

More CR gained per level -> Even higher CE:CR prices. If the KoA mission was never patched, CE would be insanely high for everyone not grinding KoA.

7.7k CR isn't ridiculous though, people are still buying it. If it was ridiculous, there wouldn't be buyers and undercutting and other factors that influence price decline would bring down the prices.

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 09:20

Tenkii

considering elevators don't cost any energy to play, people don't mind paying for energy at this price AS much.

CE prices will fall after the elevator event goes away, since less people will be willing to buy CE if the crown yield is so much lower than the cost, as it is right now.

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:40

Ringosake

long one :P

GMs can't do anything and i don't actually think the Game Designers would do very much either. in any case if they did anything that tampered with the natural price of CE in the market (which is free right now) they'd have to do a major rehauling of how that market works.

if a price ceiling were to be implemented, i.e. "CE prices shall not exceed x amount" there'd be some big problems. here are the obvious ones:
- it would piss a lot of people off. i.e. everyone who is currently selling CE. just like in real life there are a number of people in this game who trade CE for CR back and forth based on the market price to make profit. i imagine if they've been hoarding lots of CE waiting for these high CE prices they wouldn't be very happy if OOO suddenly artificially set a max CE price.
- it would be SO artificial. can you imagine the new interface with this max CE price thing in place? there'd have to be "max CE price = x" written somewhere on the trading menu. or a prompt if you exceed that amount. nobody like blatant OOO intervention and that's pretty awkward as far as intervention goes. (also everyone hates the government)

anyways, to quote spectrumized, "7.7k CR isn't ridiculous though, people are still buying it". eventually the market will normalize at some price where supply == demand. and that will be the "correct"' price.

however i do support the notion of more coin output from a small selection of levels. why? because if the coinage in only a few areas is changed the market won't be affected too greatly. some players (noobs) wouldn't even realize that there was a change. and as we can see from the last few nerfings, the prices of CE have risen even though these nerfings have happened. because they were sort of insignificant compared to everything else that was happening at the time (free elevators). so YES MORE CROWNS PLEASE!

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:35

Traevelliath

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CE prices never will go to an insane amount because then people stop buying it. Once CE is no longer being bought, sellers got to lower their price to make a profit.

Economics!

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 13:30

Davjo

LET'S RAISE THE CE PRICES TO

LET'S RAISE THE CE PRICES TO 10k!

I've been srs btw...

Sat, 05/19/2012 - 14:21

Gogller

hehhe

its excatly getting pretty funny how many complain abaut the CE prizes but still help them raising the prices because they are still buying it xD
trololololol

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