Lol, they are not trying to fix economy. They released this promo just to make people think that they 'listened to us' and gave us what we asked for. They pretend that they care about players needs and what we want and what we afraid of.

We wanted CE promo, we got it, why? Because we wanted CE price to drop.

But what next? In almost same time OOO makes half cost elevators "because they messed something up". Sure fine, but just now? With CE promo release? Coencidence? CE promo = ce price goes down but half cost elevators are doing something opposite. Result? Ce price stays almost same.

Its like OOO made that half cost elevators in purpose to keep CE price same while they made CE promo (as we wanted). There were no half / free elevators with bigger screwups from OOO side yet now they make half price elevator...

Really though, this is silly.

If they simply inflate the crowns, then the price of ce will inflate too, because ce is still more valuable than crowns.

Increase the crown drops, and the CE price will go up. CE prices are typically close to what you can get from FSC in a run, a little more lately but the point still stands. Low supply + always high demand = high price. The answer to the price is to get more people to buy CE with real money and sell it, not to increase the amount of crowns in game.

~Gwen

While people say supply and demand is the cause i would like to point out its the people expected value of ce, when people value a good they set a price for it. I estimate that the "real expected" price of ce is equal to 10k cr in total since its the payout of FSC + tokens however right now what the consumer want is a price of 4-5k cr since you can buy 100 ce with grinding from RJP and IMF however since the law of supply demand in work here the equilibrium is closer to 7k since the thats the reward of FSC run minus the FSC tokens but since there is no ce promo for a long time and people hoarding ce the supply goes down and people put more expensive ce and the other guys who hoard the ce see this and they sell the ce in increments therefore increasing the price. Thats how ce works right now, trust me its gonna go down soon ( I expect 1-2 months, i think ce will hover 7500 cr this time around).

would it be possible for them to make 100ce a fixed price? say like 10k cr and all the levels in the the game would have there crown output raised a little so that everyone can afford a fixed price of 10kcr per 100ce, or would my idea make ce kinda useless?

They did listen. A bunch of kiddies wanted to look like cat and bunny people so they went and made it possible.

Ungrateful chumps.

No, he is right.

Buying energy is a short term fix, and the more people that do it, the larger the game grows. When you buy energy to sell, you make the game grow. You help fund a T1 or 2 player into liking the game more, and inviting his/her friends. But here's the catch- when you expand the game, you make your own circle of influence smaller. If 5 people played spiral knights, and one of them bought all of the CE, that one would have all of the power over all of the others, and would dictate the price. The more people you add on, the less influence the CE buyer has... lets say 2/10 are CE buyers. Now, the first guy who funded the expansion has half the power he had before. The same holds true for all numbers of CE buyers.. which is why no single player has any real influence over the economy in the long run.

Now, this should and would lead to exponential growth as people buy more people onto the game to buy more people etc, but people are also leaving the game. The number of CE buyers leaving outnumbers the number of ce buyers joining up until the number of CE buyers becomes steady- some people become "hooked" on the game, and write economic reports about it on the forums.. and a few of those (not me) buy ce. It then steadily grows at a boringly slow rate as regulars join up to the game, and that's where we are now. OOO makes a CE promotion, and those ce buying regulars buy some, and then those that don't buy CE buy the accessory off of them effectively wasting their crowns that could be put into buying energy. The rich ce buying player eventually sells some of the CE to catch up with the other rich CE buying players who sold both their CE and their accessory, and another accessory is purchased on the featured auctions, or another ASI very high UV is placed onto a brandish.

If promotions fail to lower CE prices enough to bring about enough growth to sustain the game, then they'll eventually have to do something- or see their game fail as less and less new players are able to join. And that is where the one entity that can change the economy- OOO, enters with their plethora of solutions.