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.
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.