Stop ranting, start acting.

Today, after seeing yet another CE rage thread, I decided to try something out. Given that I had purchased some energy last week, I dumped 300 energy into the system for.....wait for it......5k Each!
That may not seem like a lot, with all the players and energy trade. But mere moments after I put in the 300 energy, the CE price dropped 50 crowns.
50 crowns.
Now imagine if every player who's ever raged about CE in the past had the radical, genius idea to actually do something about it. Say 100 knights dumped their energy in for 5000 crowns each. According to a simple calculation (I might be wrong, correct me if I am), this would lower the price of energy by approx. 1667 crowns.
1667 crowns.
So stop ranting and get your energy out, sell it for a low price, and we can set things right.
-Soarel Fyrex von Krone-Schtauffen
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Note to those who exploit the energy system for profit or just to troll, get out. You're not making the game a good place. If you want people to stop raging about CE, quit making this game a wretched hive of scum and noobery.

You're such a great, nice person!

Dump it all and I'll buy it all :]

question: 300 offers for 5k crowns or you just sold 300ce, as in 3 offers?
because when i ever get Energy to sell, i usually sell it 500crowns cheaper than lowest price, or sometimes, even 1k - 1,5k cheaper. never have i seen it drop. it just goes up and up and up... >.< of course im only able to do 20offers or such.....
EDIT: when exactly did you post the offers today? cuz i did sell some some cheap CE. i think it was 45 min ago...

Err... I commend your noble intentions, but just asking people to sell their own energy cheap isn't the right way to go about this. If people wanna see the CE price go down, they should SET THEIR OWN CE OFFERS and NOT JUST QUICKBUY CE. If you let the seller set the price every time, it will be higher. If the buyer sets the price more than the seller, it will be lower.
Spiral hipster makes a good point too. The harder you try, the less reward you will get for the effort put in.
Canine kinda proves my point. He sets his CE below other peoples when selling, because he is meeting the buyers demands. The price is lower when the seller meets the buyers demands, but right now the buyers generaly meet the sellers demands.

Nope. Completely wrong calculations buddy. Work on them.
Also if your selling ce for 1 crown or 7k crowns, it dosn't make a difference. They will give you the price of the current bid to buy ce which might be 8k crowns.
That's a beautiful model...for a static supply/demand curve for energy.
But that's not the case. What actually happens when you drop in 10k CE at 5k cr/100 CE is that it immediately gets soaked into the highest buy offers, and basically dissipates to nothingness. Dropping the price of CE by 50 cr is probably an extremely temporary fluke, and believe me, you'll need a lot more CE to crash the market than just 10k.
I'm not an econ major, so I didn't explain the mechanisms. So if you can't see that, visualize this: If 10k CE will drop the market 1667 crowns, then 100k CE will make the market go negative. Probable? Not at all, considering the walls of 1k buy offers sitting at 8920 (random number, but you know they're there somewhere around that).
tl;dr Math & Econ.