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Originally Posted by lorph
Now that ectos are as easy to farm as shards, they will drop to that price (about 2-3k) unless anet does something.
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What happened to Ecto and Shard Prices
Hyper Cutter
Lord High Pwner
ok about 5 minutes ago i went to the rare mat trader and she was selling ecto for 4.5k and buying them for 4.6k. I thought my eye where deceiving me so i had my son get on and check again same thing. I went back to the trader and ectos where suddenly 6.5k at trader how does it jump 2k in 1 minute? is Anet messing with something in econmy?
*ok just went and checked now they are 6k lol
*ok just went and checked now they are 6k lol
Toxage
I wouldn't be surprised if Arena Net did change the value after all the whining that has taken place on these forums.
Just checked rare trader selling ectos at 6k.
Just checked rare trader selling ectos at 6k.
Inger
I can also verify that this is accurate, just went and checked
Trader buys for 4.4k and sells for 6k
Trader buys for 4.4k and sells for 6k
samifly
Might be a glitch or something kicking in so there isn't a massive drop in prices
Brianna
Well, Ecto is 6k at the merchant right now, hmm.. now isn't that odd..
(Insert conspiracy theory here).
(Insert conspiracy theory here).
VladDrakken
Ectos are 6k at trader. What gives? Price fix? Any news?
Lord High Pwner
^^ kind of what im thinking though watching the price the trader is buying for its gone down twice now in 10 minutes so someone is dumping alot of ectos to the trader fast to lower that price so quick
MrSlayer
Instead of nerfing the SF farms, just lock the trader's sell price. It'll create a locked ecto selling price, problem solved.
Lets hope that's what they did..
Lets hope that's what they did..
ALF71BE
There were so many in the market that the material trader went crazy!
Or some haxxor came with his 100 million duped gold and bought that many ectos.
Doesn't matters, sell now!
Or some haxxor came with his 100 million duped gold and bought that many ectos.
Doesn't matters, sell now!
I MP I
Well, either Anet stepped in, or someone (possibly more than one person) with way too much gold went shopping for ectos at the trader. Start the conspiracy theories! gogogo
Spazzer
Pricefixing ftw!
When you get more money selling something that's supposed to be worth less, that's bank.
[edit] Ah, trader is still buying for the low price. Now that's not fair. :[
When you get more money selling something that's supposed to be worth less, that's bank.
[edit] Ah, trader is still buying for the low price. Now that's not fair. :[
Maximumraver
I seriously doubt that Anet did anything about the price, just some players went on a massive shopping spree, or it's a bug.
Maximumraver
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Originally Posted by Brianna
(Insert conspiracy theory here).
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qft.
Engage
@ 5.5 currently
manitoba1073
Did you guys get a exit and reload message. Nope so Anet did not and couldnt update the mats trader prices.
Lord High Pwner
Im not saying conspiracy, but ectos even bought in large amounts will rise and fall incrementally not jump 2k in a matter of minutes.
And upon checking again trader is now buying ectos 4k and selling 6k still so in a matter of 30 mins we've seen the price jump 2k drop 500g and the trader buying value has dropped 600 gold. I just havnt seen this much activity in ecto price in awhile
ok so a few minutes after i type this they drop 5.5.
And upon checking again trader is now buying ectos 4k and selling 6k still so in a matter of 30 mins we've seen the price jump 2k drop 500g and the trader buying value has dropped 600 gold. I just havnt seen this much activity in ecto price in awhile
ok so a few minutes after i type this they drop 5.5.
Mr. Undisclosed
Some guy came into ToA about a minute ago and said he sold a stack of ectos to the trader and laughed about it. Ectos are back down to 5.5k again.
evenfall
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Originally Posted by manitoba1073
Did you guys get a exit and reload message. Nope so Anet did not and couldnt update the mats trader prices.
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Mr. Undisclosed
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Originally Posted by manitoba1073
Did you guys get a exit and reload message. Nope so Anet did not and couldnt update the mats trader prices.
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lorph
I am willing to bet anet artificially raised the price of ectos.
Spazzer
"Anet I have all of my money in thousands of ectos! Keep the prices up or I'll quit!"
Dark Paladin X
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Originally Posted by Spazzer
"Anet I have all of my money in thousands of ectos! Keep the prices up or I'll quit!"
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lorph
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Originally Posted by Dark Paladin X
keeping the prices up will encourage people to sell, but will DISCOURAGE people to buy. Ever see the recent gas pump prices, this make more people less willing to drive. It's plan economics, people want prices low.
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Yichi
What happened to ecto's and shards...
Answer = PvE happened to them.
Answer = PvE happened to them.
Dark Paladin X
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Originally Posted by lorph
thats a flawed analogy, because normal people don't have the ability to farm oil, unlike in guildwars where almost everyone can farm ectos.
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ALF71BE
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Originally Posted by Dark Paladin X
the supply of ectos is med-high, but demand is high, which leads ectos to cost less, but not to the extent of ectos being worthless. Similarly, shards are less in supply because it is harder to get, but demand is high, thus the prices of shards slightly increase.
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It's not the other way around which you talk about.
And there's no incentive in buying ectos as you can only make a sin and in 6 hours or less you'll be getting 10 an hour.
Golgotha
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Originally Posted by Dark Paladin X
But the prices is determined by basis of supply and demand. Here, the supply of ectos is med-high, but demand is high, which leads ectos to cost less, but not to the extent of ectos being worthless.
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StormDragonZ
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Originally Posted by ALF71BE
the demand is near to non-existent.
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Dark Paladin X
one of the main reasons that ectos are used as currency as compared to anguish gemstones because ectos is accessable to everyone (as in Core) while anguish gemstones are exclusive to Nightfall.
Fay Vert
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Originally Posted by manitoba1073
Did you guys get a exit and reload message. Nope so Anet did not and couldnt update the mats trader prices.
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"A player has bought something at a trader, please log out to see the updated prices"
manitoba1073
players buying from the traders is different from Anet fixing the prices of the traders. Which would take an update. But go ahead and believe what you want. 
It was the frog and gaile they robbed other players and used it buy ectos.
It was the frog and gaile they robbed other players and used it buy ectos.
Golgotha
I honestly don't care why the price is as high at the trader because its not as if you can actually sell the ectos at anywhere near that price at the moment. People know theres low demand so they'd be insane to offer near trader prices full well knowing the real market value is significantly diminished. Personally, I'm stacking up on the ectos I have in a chance of the SF nerf.
lorph
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Originally Posted by Dark Paladin X
well obviously you can't farm oil because it's a non-renewable resource. the reason why I mentioned this is because oil is getting harder and harder to find and availability gets less and less. In the situation here, players should encourage keeping prices low so it gives more incentive to buy. But the prices is determined by basis of supply and demand. Here, the supply of ectos is med-high, but demand is high, which leads ectos to cost less, but not to the extent of ectos being worthless. Similarly, shards are less in supply because it is harder to get, but demand is high, thus the prices of shards slightly increase.
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Your argument makes no sense except wanting ectos to cost less for your own benefit.
You also don't understand supply and demand. You said demand is high while supply is only med-high, this means ectos should cost more not less like you just said. And if shards were so hard to get, why do they cost half as much as an ecto still?
So to summarize this, you are arguing against your previous post, and not even backing yourself up with valid proof.
On a sidenote, it looks like ectos are going back down after anet raised them to 6k. They are currently at 4.7k each. Quite a drop within a day. I think anet should say if they are fixing the prices, which I am quite confident they did yesterday.
Masseur
ectos have been between 4.5K and 6K for a year now, yeah, they actually hit 4.3K as well recently. But with the points weekend, less are farming UW for the moment, so prices stabilized and even went back to 4.5K/4.7K. After the weekend they will be farm harder again, but soon we lose favor. So not as many will be going into UW, so it might keep semi-stable al little longer, even if Anet does nothing to the skill or the area.
Dallcingi
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Originally Posted by Masseur
but soon we lose favor. .
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Nightow
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Originally Posted by Dallcingi
Not so soon, this weekend many many people will get their max reputations...
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Mourne
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Originally Posted by Dallcingi
Not so soon, this weekend many many people will get their max reputations...
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Holly Herro
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Originally Posted by Legendary Shiz
FoW can't be solo'ed as easily, and the clears take longer.
UW can not only be cleared in half the time of FoW if it's a good group, but it can be solo'ed more easily. |
Jesses Paradigm
i remember the good 'ol days where ectos were 100k