EphemeralEternity
2012-04-21 |  | Staff Interference in the Mark |  |
The staff have never been to keen on interfering with the market, but we`ve been half tossing around the idea to do something with it.
Now this something would have to be in the form of giving an npc resources and posting on the market.
For example....lets say if food went above 35 on normal for a day or two...the staff could give an npc x amount of food and make him post it at 28 or what ever the predetermined cost would be
the same thing could happen with minerals or what have you...
so first off we would need to discuss pro`s and cons of doing such things for example.
Pro, would be so that there could always be minerals on the market, Food could stay low enough so that tax terrans/virals could still use turns.
Con. Would be such things could only happen when staff that could perform the task were on...so if it runs out your out til then. Those who produce the resources would feel as if they`re losing potential profit.
We would also need to discuss posting prices for various servers and or limits on amounts that could be posting within a given time frame if any...
Basically any market tampering by the staff would potentially be a very volatile and fragile and would have the potential to do more harm than good.
I know this wouldn`t be a perfect solution if implemented
but for no now we could discuss it and see if it`s even worth trying. |
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JJtheJetPlane
99+ day(s) ago | /waits for EE to post his income stuff or w/e |
FISTFULLOFDOLLARS
99+ day(s) ago | Oh getting steamy in here... If it is going to be this kind of party I`m going to put my **** in the mashed potatoes! |
Raistilin
99+ day(s) ago | EE`s girlfriend would rip you to peices and enjoy every moment of it. I think BW`s open though |
backoff
99+ day(s) ago | @AshyLarry, i assume u r a guy, but too bad, i m not homo....maybe u should date Reaper.......oh, maybe BW/EE as well..
:P |
AshyLarry
99+ day(s) ago | btw backoff u r supercute poet. date? |
AshyLarry
99+ day(s) ago | backoff should restart as kalzul |
Reaper
99+ day(s) ago | Didn`t*
would* |
backoff
99+ day(s) ago | ``The sun goes down
The stars come out``
``The backoff pop up
The food spike up``
eventually, if i din eat, food market will be balance out @10...Sighs.. |
EphemeralEternity
99+ day(s) ago | I`m Working on something to show all of you. Having to do with all races and their incomes. |
JJtheJetPlane
99+ day(s) ago | I didn`t say miner was hard (I said the opposite actually) and I never said vital was easy...but for u to say miner income is anywhere near viral income all things considered is laughable. for an easy race, being a miner is just too easy for the God mode income |
AshyLarry
99+ day(s) ago | I am going to try tax terran since there is food posted in the market.
@admin, please don`t cut the funding of food or else i will stop loving you |
GalacticMercenaries
99+ day(s) ago | Im pretty shure theres a big difrence in the ships JJ A.Miner are an easy race Viral is a hard race get over it |
AshyLarry
99+ day(s) ago | tax miner is god mode income but the upkeep from chlor spams makes up for it.
i really miss being a.miner |
JJtheJetPlane
99+ day(s) ago | Tax miner income is way higher than tax viral all things considered. |
GalacticMercenaries
99+ day(s) ago | SystemFailure your verry not smart have you played A.Miner there ships cost way more than viral ships so the income isent that mutch more |
Omegian
99+ day(s) ago | Well, for Slow it took me 4-6 months, but yes over time I did make more than the server demanded, but my income stream versus tax miner about my same empire age was actually the tax empire made more in the longer run than I did. |
JJtheJetPlane
99+ day(s) ago | Decreasing upkeep would be a good idea....if the point weren`t to reduce miners effective cash flow.
If one person can out produce an entire servers demand for minerals, I think that`s about as good an argument as it gets that staff interference is necessary. Its also a fantastic point to proving mineral miners make to much especially given how relatively easy the income path is. In the month flooded that you said, that miner probably made 10x more than just about anyone else.
Granted, if a server hasn`t blown up in awhile I can see any miner eventually having maxed everything and be tempted to restart. |
Omegian
99+ day(s) ago | @ JJ, the times when Food went to 3 was because taxers vm`d supply > demand. The times when there was no food was when demand > supply thus new empires were needed to produce food. Over the past year, most food markets have kept an average to where it is fine for tax miners, but not tax virals.
You can decrease the tax miner mod, but you would have to decrease the upkeep of most aminer ships to compensate, that still will lead to the problem for me to go mineral miner even with the mod reduced like you had said because, the problem is the consistent cash flow for mineral miners versus tax I guess is what I mean in the longe run after mineral miner has flooded the market for 1 month lets say to where everyone has a mineral abundance. Even if you reduced it by 30%, mineral miner with 4 c3s, would outproduce a server decently with a high enough research level, I mean Rag can kind of attest to that on Slow. |
JJtheJetPlane
99+ day(s) ago | I hope that was sarcasm system..lol |
ChoriChori
99+ day(s) ago | On par with miner incomes? How bout just restart and use miner then. Miner income is high because the upkeep of their ships are high, and well....the ships aren`t really that good. |
