ABCD crystal prices

Okay sorry I am fixated on dwarf crafting at the moment. Gomen nasai! Just having fun on the commerce side of things while helping a friend level. Anyway here is the question or though to discuss.


Aside from greed is there anything that really affects the price of crystals on a server? Take erica for example. You have idiots selling D crystals for 720+. it's easier to just walk into the **** weapon shop by the cheapest weapon and crush it 687 d-crystal price.


B-crystals way back in the day were like 9-12K-ish depending. Now people are asking for 14K with no underlying explanation in the market to reasonably ask that price. They also started hijacking the c-crystal price inflating that.

Its kind of like last year when suddenly animal bones went to 2K per bone on Erica. Yeah there was a shortage of bones...my dwarf could only pull in 2000+ spoiling in the catacomb.

There are definetely strong forces in the market working against players in regards to pricing and at best even knowing what to look for will get you only a 10-20% discount off the inflated prices the rip-off artists try to get for stuff.

On erica I managed to get A-crystals for 22K per, versus 27-29K, but you have to actively watch shouts and pay attention to get any good deals. They come fast and disappear quickly as well.


Any thoughts on crystal price hijacking. I think BSS over a year went from 64-67 to 72-75, all due to someone/group inflating b-crystal prices. Notice how the D market is still at 12, not enough profit in that market for the crystal vendors to [censored] it.


I think really your best bet is to set up a buy shop and buy the crystals at a reasonable value. Your buying power comes in the form of someone may want to translate nonliquid crystals into liquid adena quickly. Or you are buying such a large quantity that makes it easy for them to unload. If i can buy 100M worth of a-crystals, I **** well expect to name my price for what I will pay.



Please rule out supply and demand. Just go to dion on erica. You have to turn down the glow effect its so bright there :-) Lots of OE'd weapons mean lots of blown up ones as well.

Isn't Erica dead? Well, make a dwarf to L52. You get D crystals cheap from crystalize, C from making C duals (again by buying everything from shop) and B from D&C crystals and AA, again by making B duals with swords bought from luxury with D/C Crystals.

Yeah I know that, just trying to understand the price fluctuations that people are trying to push.

Jin it all comes down to people not wanting to put any time in getting what they want. The top price for D crystals on a server with 15% tax is 687.5 each yet people will pay 700+ per and complain about the price. They want whatever they need now wiith little to no effort on their part.

Some other good examples are VoP, Mith Alloy and Synth Cokes. I bet if you found a shop selling them then looked around Giran you could buy the stuff and craft for cheaper. Now on Erica's economy that has always been run with fake shortages to inflate prices. I started playing on Erica back in C2 and spent alot of time playing the market and watching the highs and lows there. I can recall selling Varnish for over 7k and selling out completely and people paid it because of a artifical shortage.

I know each server has its high priced items and they tend to be different from server to server. On the servers with less population prices tend to move all over the place with items not selling for days to drive prices sky high. That would be harder to do on a high population server due to the fact you have more people selling the items.

I'm such a pack rat with mats. I still have my first stem that dropped off a dryad in the elf village. granted it is in a pile of 6000 of them and I have a hard time distinguishing it from the others, but I know in my heart it is still there. :-)