Prices for the lower star materials are just going to go really low. Plus anything you can find running jelly king a lot. I doubt gel drops will be worth much. MAYBE a little for brute cores and such but it's doubtful if everyone holding back on theirs contributes and undercuts.

Also Robot, you aren't thinking. He wrote about alts and people not logging in often. So although 10ce = 400 under current values, it doesn't represent any loss for someone using pure mist energy (and that's all they wish to use).

It would be foolish to sell below 300. That's scrap value to put it in Dead Frontier Marketplace terms. Anyone even slightly paying attention would buy all haze bombs below 300 then scrap them (in this game, that'd be selling to an NPC vender) for a profit. I will not say people won't go below 300, but it won't make sense to do so and it shouldn't last for very long with eagle eyed players.

well as in the original post, its a very very thin chance of using it this way.

To break even you'd have to have the materials already (or buy them for no more than 20 cr each), and ONLY use mist energy. That's just to break even.

And nooo to the all CE crafting >.> What about the new players who wanna try out stuff with their mist energy, it's entirely possible to craft your two star set with only mist energy if you're patient (heck even 3 star). CE only crafting would kill that (though it might mean more profits...). Besides, crafting for yourself can be "fun" with the materials you collected. CE only would kill that, and I imagine the few people that use unusual armor like circuit breaker shield won't be able to buy many of those off of the market. Additionally, everything in this game is meant to take advantage of at least some of the mist energy to lighten the burden on CE. You can buy a trinket slot for 150 energy but it could just cost you 50ce energy if someone has a full mist tank.

Eventually yes, you can get a Charge Reduction Very High UV. The Uncertainty principle allows anything to happen.

Doesn't mean it would happen anytime soon. I've been chunking out Haze bombs for around a week now.

I've gotten around 20 UVs, 2 Low Charge Reduction, the rest assorted low damages, oh, and one High slime.

Honestly, it isn't that productive. the amount you spend (2k crowns per 100 ME) doesn't really pay off. In my case:
I've made 70 Haze Bombs: 14k Crowns + Materials (light shards are pricey in mass. 200 lightshards at 50 each is 10k) + ME
20 UVs Kept to Sell. Sold the other 50. 17.5k Crowns
Sold Three UVs so far, (2 low CTR and 1 High Slime) for 750/1k/1k. 2.75k total.

Total Expenditures
250 Crown for the Recipe
24,000 Spent in sheer crowns and Materials
20,250 Earned

Net Loss:
4000 crowns

Unless you get really lucky, you're better off just doing something else with that ME. Really silly, but I got a High CTR UV on my Flourish, and a High Attack Speed Increase on my Freezing Vaporizer MKII...

Suggest it in the appropriate forum, they might. There is a Lua <-> Java binding out there (search "luajava"), but at the very least a JNI could be written for Lua support. At the most basic level Java has XML parsers in the default language, so they could work up some kind of interface/scripting thing with XML.

Back on topic, I don't think that any hard minimums should be enforced beyond what the vendors would buy for (like selling shards is worthless, and a magnus sells for 3500 minimum). Where the soft caps of the market will land is anyone's guess though. Given that people WILL buy the materials required to make haze bombs, I'm betting the prices will go significantly above the minimum prices to go "infinite" crafting those.

But Leviathan I think your math is a little off, or the market is out of whack though. A Magnus is 10 red shards, 3 bronze bolts, 2 gremlin gizmos, and 1 rocket sprocket. With a crafting price of 1000 and a vendor sell price of 3500, that means the components and energy cost (100 energy) makes up the remaining 2500? But rocket sprockets were more than 2k last I deigned to peek into trade chat.