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Valley Hills Desert Mountains Tundra Polar Carbon x x x Iron ore x x x x Raw obsidian x x Silver ore x x x Gold ore x x x Platinum ore x x x Raw gems x x x Coal x x x Raw bone x x x Impure ice x x Raw stone x xIt is only found in the mountains and the fissure because of the depth at which this ice dwells. When the mountains erupted from the earth the deeper depths at which this ice is found were brought closer to the surface. The polar environment in which this elemental ice is found is split by a giant fissure, allowing access to the depths where the ice can be found.
Some speculate that elemental ice is actually found in all regions and environments (yes, even the desert) but is buried so deep that any mining endeavor to extract it would be near impossible and certainly unprofitable.
This is such a blatant devaluation of prices and obviously the work of one person. People used to do this to credits except there's now this clause for the credit market:
I can see people maybe undercutting by one or two gold, but this is ridiculous. You shouldn't be able to sell more than 2 or 3 batches of the same commodity at different prices.
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I am constantly juggling 50+ letters, sometimes from people buy only 1 or 2 commodities at a time. Just let it all be deposited into a bank, perhaps the Delos bank exclusively or something.
1) A few large orders makes it easier for people to manipulate the market.
2) Small order sizes means that everyone gets to sell some stuff.
3) No pricing model is perfect.
I bet the above wouldn't happen if a name was attached to any commodities sold, though that unfortunately defeats the purpose. While the idea of manipulating the market with a few well-priced batches of commodities is intriguing, I find it less so in the face of the current de-valuing that is clearly happening and unlikely to stop.
Edit: To clarify, no one is going to be posting commodities in those little groups. Everyone will always want to sell now, now, now because people are impatient. Instead they'll just sell for the cheapest, even if it means they lose money. This is why it is not a very advisable tactic, for economic stability, and for all involved.
So with that, I am for adding in the similarity of the credit market, in which you can only have a few groups of one type of commodity up at varying prices - a max of three sounds fair. Unless there's a better solution not thought of yet.
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And agree with @Grandue, the gold goes to Delos bank, details goes as a message.
Plus, putting the gold in the bank creates a tax on all sales. I don't understand why people are begging for that. Myself as an example, I've sold 11170727 gold worth of commodities. If that went into the Delos bank I would've spent nearly a quarter of a million gold on bank fees just to get the gold.
It really isn't hard to get gold out of any number of letters. If you still had to target by item number I would agree that it's a hassle, but you don't. You can just GET GOLD FROM LETTER#1 and repeat the action until you reach the end of the list. As much as I've enjoyed walking around picking up letters full of gold because people didn't do that before discarding, emptying letters this way is VERY easy.
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What I mean by this is, when I am physically present to prospect my own mine I see how much of the lode has been mined out. It would be nice if this information was visible when I look at a specific mine with mines show so that I can figure out at what point I should go there and CLAIM STORAGE.
Besides that, I want to be Iron Man.
Maybe the alchemists should start working on a way to turn gold into iron...
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You are enough of a prospector to realise that iron lodes never spawn and there is no point looking for one.
This one commodity is used for too many things. It is the Spice Melange of Achaea, and she who controls it, controls the universe! The price of iron on the com market hasn't budged all week and access to iron directly affects the profitability of mining ANY other com.
At these prices its almost better to just let my ships weapons decay and buy new ones rather than maintain them. I have no problem what so ever finding vacant gold, silver, carbon and obsidian lodes. But if you want iron you better be ready to Kung Fu fight the whole planet for it...
'more iron' is nice, but I think more demand/outlets for the so-called 'precious metal'/rare lodes would be even nicer.
The total lack of supply on the market is pretty clear evidence the rate is not high enough. Every single person who mines needs iron, in addition to people who own ships, armour crafters, city improvements, the list goes on and on. If the spawn rate was just changed (I saw no announcement to make me think it was) then maybe I'd say give it a few more days and look at the market again.
30K for 230 iron to start a large mine - the only viable kind of mine really - is a massive chunk out of the profits of any other com. It also makes for far fewer people willing to build mines on small lodes, which means that quite a few of those small lodes are a waste of space that nobody wants to pay the bill to clean up.
I agree there should be some reason why the average player would want gold, silver and platinum...but that is very hard to do. I'd hate to see those commodities suddenly become important for totally artificial or illogical reasons.
At one point you would only see a few iron mines scattered around and you wouldn't expect another relode until those mines were all but gone. Now you can still find iron reloding without those mines getting depleted. I don't disagree that more iron would be good because everyone needs it, but it's also these limits that help maintain prices instead of a total market collapse. Bearing in mind that mining even with your own comms isn't cheap. I also feel like I have to point out that just like any other lode, there's an element of luck in it as well. You also need to develop good relations with other miners as a rogue otherwise nobody will tell you shit.
We just had an iron spawn with a ton of iron mines still standing. And I wouldn't have known about it if mining friends didn't tell me.