Regarding the RSS "compensation"
The bomb took CE to make
by removing it, OOO wastes the creators CE
the compensation is UV tickets
UV tickets cost crowns
OOO keeps the creator from wasting crowns
OOO just turned CE into crowns. Totaly not market manipulation. Sigh, as if players could do anything to affect the CE price.
Crystal Bomb = 1 Variant Ticket= 50CE
Sun Shards = 2 Variant Ticket= 50+200=250CE
Rock Salt Bomb = 2 Variant Ticket= 50+200=250CE
Ionized Salt Bomb = 3 Variant Ticket=250+400=650CE
Radiant Sun Shards = 3 Variant Ticket=250+400=650CE
multiply the CE by 80, compare the cost with punch, genius.
Compare the value?
One is CE
The other is crowns
What is your argument?
There's no way someone could have abused 3UV tickets in a short amount of time. Unless heat boosters... Did anyone try that?
so the cost of 4000cr trades you an ordinary service which should cost you 20k cr is reasonable?
for the real cash life burners, this argument is invalid, of course
what about with that almighty elevator pass?
http://i.imgur.com/KuGW7.jpg
still able to heat up 5 bombs to lv 5 with sufficient of time, gg
I'm not saying you sell the tickets, I'm saying the tickets pervent people from spending crowns to a certain extent. Once again, crown sink is decreased, CE is removed.
you know you keep the bombs u made, theyre just changed
Haha, keeping the bombs. Why?
'You're keeping the diamond you made, it's just been turned into coal'
bonus. you get the tickets and you keep the bombs. i'm not sure what diamondshreddie's point was.
So a Sun shard cost 50 ce. Which is about 4000 cr.
A ticken given out is a ticket not bought in the future. A single UV ticket from Punch costs 20k crowns.
The result? Every sun shard crafted was equivalent to injecting 16k crowns into the economy.
every single uv ticket entered into the market was not worth 16k crowns. Everyone saved a player 16k crowns vs buyign a UV ticket. But just because a player was willing to pay 4k crowns for a uv ticket, does not mean that same player would have payed 20k crowns.
So technically, only a number of "free" tickets equivalent to the number of tickets that would have been purchased regardless introduced the equivalent of 16k crowns.
But time has proven that there was no way 5000 (random high number) of UV tickets would have been purchased in that 30 minute period. Maybe closer to 50-150 rolls would have been taken in that period. So those 50 to 150 tickets captured by crafting effectively (sorta) injected 16k into the economy.
Rommil we need people like you in Washington dc. Please fix the mess our government has created :).
"The result? Every sun shard crafted was equivalent to injecting 16k crowns into the economy."
Injecting crowns into economy has a bad influence on the CE price; in other words it reduces players' need to obtain crowns (some players', slightly or greatly, depending on the amount of the reward obtained) hence the need to buy crowns from the market.
"But just because a player was willing to pay 4k crowns for a uv ticket, does not mean that same player would have payed 20k crowns."
This is true. However, as you know, it's not always the case. There is still potential crown injection. OOO was willling to create potential problems.
Hmmnm should have written this to be a bit more accurate;
"Every sun shard crafted was potentialy injecting 16k crowns into the economy, while removing CE "
Now OOO didn't directly force the price to go up, hence the use of the word potential, but they once again decided to see if they could let problems occur.
Crystal bombs can also be made with pure mist instead of using ce. A lot of the ones bought up on the AH were possibly made this way as well. I wonder what portion of those bombs were made with craft bots for ultra-cheap uv tickets?
Imagine if you were lucky enough to use a few crafting bots to stockpile cheap crystal bombs for a few months.
"Crystal bombs can also be made with pure mist instead of using ce. "
The 4*'s and 3* couldn't have, so there is some garunteed waste there, assuming getting a completly different bomb than the one you initaly wanted is a waste.
OOO just wants to make their players suffer, right?