I was thinking about the following. What would happen if a person was to buy e.g. all Iron available in auction. After that he would also buy everything he can ge ton other markets. He will keep this up for a few weeks so that he would own >80% of the iron on the market. What wold happen. Wil the FPC balance manager just add more iron on the market (increase drops in loot, more deposits in ground). or will the planet eventually run out of iron and thus the price will go up? If the latter is true a guy could make serious money (probably big investment neded at first however)
Black Paint... didn't drop anymore because none of it was consumed. I am pretty sure it works like that for ores/enmatters, too - but not for common stuff like i.e. iron, at 25% claim rate MA HAS to give you some loot back, they'll hardly cut down on the common stuff. I'd try one of the underprices rare ores/enmatters, like Kanerium, Ferrum Nuts, Henren stems or stuff that people hardly/never global on. /Edit: Marco even confirmed it "kinda works like this", somewhere in a Q&A - and deleted it from his own post within 24 hours!
It changed as they nerfed coloring and changed the stack sizes and TT on the paint cans long ago - and all of a sudden black paint started to drop again (basicaly because you need way more cans per fields now), but the basic mechanism remains - when people don't consume the stuff it drops less and less often. Must've hurt people stacking up black paint as an investment really hard - markup dropped within days to a tiny fraction.
Yeah, but its also teaches them a leasson as not to be such hording asshats when other people wanted their jackets painted...
well FPC are always advertising with their real cash economy. If being able to get a monopoly would be a good step forward to really achieving a RCE. Or a real economy at all for that matter.
What will happen? ... If the guy is smart enough he could get a lot of PEDs. Actually there is something going on RIGHT NOW with LIGHT MAIL. Someone started a bubble, and now it is exploding ... it looks like some Wall Street folks also like MMORPGs
