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Lobi ships exchange price increases
dontphaseme
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Why have most of the lobi ships increased so much in price lately? Especially with more lobi being added to the game (Arc etc). They always hovered around 80 million or so now all of a sudden they're all 100+ million?
Is there some no life ec billionaire wannabe ferengi flipping these?
Is there some no life ec billionaire wannabe ferengi flipping these?
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As for the EC billionaire angle, I think some have gotten out of the flipping market because the only ones that can afford a lobi ship are other flippers, why try and sell something 99% of the player base in the game can't afford?
Another thing to consider is that it has been a while since the last featured episode promotion. That brought a lot of lobi into the game and it might simply be a matter of less lobi ships being in circulation.
(Sorry, just venting really.)
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A lobi ship cost just about $200.00 and players are just starting to wake up to that fact.
I'm so glad that I bought all the lobi and lock box ships that I wanted months ago when it was a buyers market on the exchange.
Ever since Cryptic made the changes to the exchange sometime back it has bee much harder to find deals and turn large EC profits using it.
That would eliminate all speculation and only leave legitimate/I actually want this item buys.
This is a stupid idea. Cryptic must unbind many items which currently are bound but not make more bound items.
Every day, more and more new players enter the game. This means that there is more and more ec drops in the game. Loot from hostiles, Tour the Universe and so on.
When the amount of EC in the game increases, a million ec is worth less than it used to be. For example, around a year and a half ago, when there were fewer players in the game, there was less Ec input, so EC wasnt flooding the markets.
Now we see more EC entering the game than that players spend on other places than the exchange. Prices go up then, so that items keep their value. The Bug ships are off the exchange, since they are worth more than 500 million energy credits. They are still worth around the same though (although rarer, they are no longer the DPS kings they used to be).
The problem is that although ec is worth less, we are not earning more. "We" are the players that do not play the exchange. Tour the Universe still gives you 450k, that 450k is simply worth what used to be 300k.
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I didn't say it was a good or bad idea. I was just wondering what kind of effect it would have on the exchange prices if an exchange bought item could not be resold for a higher price.
if I had to guess, than we would have much fewer items on the exchange, because many of them only serve as a token for EC exchange and nothing else.
The items which are interesting for practical buyers could go up in price because suddenly they are actually rare or go down in price because the value is no longer inflated.
The losers of this would be the people profiting from exchange trickery which is a bubble in itself and doesn't add anything to the game.
Supply and demand
Prices are what the market will bear
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Funny. my EC sink keeping me from a Wells is a fleet. . .
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Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
I'm not surprised the market would eventually shift back to the sellers, but it won't last forever. But it may last a while.
Not everyone contribute goods to fleet. It's a sink to some people, but not most.
What this game needs is an EC shop that actually has good items that people want to buy, for appropriately high prices.