NOOBY93 wrote:Except bluebells and toadstools got really inflated by Ainran publicly selling a bunch of botted ones for practically free. I'm pretty sure someone sold pearls for 40 points each, whereas they used to be "50" pts (you would need to pay less if paid in pearls) and now some don't even take pearls. And that was his point I guess, if they cost $50 in all countries, an American gets that in 2 hours and a north African gets it in 10 days, it matters.
And my point is it was same before bots
Value always was individual, for example I was taking pearls only for 30pts long before pearl collecting bot became public (and even before first good one was written), because I valued space in my cbs higher, but not high enough to not accept pearls at all. There always were people not accepting pearls. I don't see what bots really changed on market. Yeah, there were some splashes of bots caused sales now and then, but you really can't make enough bluebells or pearls per day to sell it dirt cheap regularly, you would need few good PCs for that, it is possible in theory, but no one hates this game enough to go through such effort and remain active for a long time.
I am still waiting for Alg to post the market data graphs he and Rawrz were working on last night. I saw one for the price of BBC from W5-W7 and because of the devaluation in pearls most of all, the price has most certainly increased over time. I think I remember he said things didn't change much over W5-W6 but W7 the prices have risen dramatically.
You're breaking my heart now, because we went through some effort to lower prices in general (we never touched food though). Tables, looms and wood in general cost few times less now. Also it is hard to get correct data, because best threads usually remain active through worlds and prices are dynamic, so you can't really see that this particular trader was selling tables for 400pts before he was undercut to 100. Should look like that:
