Rare Minerals

I would say harvesting is already plenty 'click happy' there is no need to make it impossible to tell where you will harvest next.  

I understand the idea of hoarding, price gouging and setting the market and I know it's pretty easy to do that in this game with some T3 items while the markets are still somewhat stagnant.

I'm trying to make suggestions that'll partially eliminate them and help out in the short term and long term.

Most of the T3 items in my inventory came from side deals or the market.

I personally believe that hoarding will lead to a huge price crash in the future. In most cases, the limitation on crafted item production isn't the rare materials. It's the production capacity, because the crafting buildings accelerate production on a much slower curve than standard items (2% vs. 4.5%). Sure, you can specialize to speed things up, but then you've eliminated capacity for all other item types.

I've seen several attempts to corner the market. To date, all have failed. There's simply too much commodity volume on the sidelines, and too much new material flowing in. The only thing that I think has been effectively cornered is Silversteel, because there are only 5 known mines. But if the owners dumped their SS output into the market, the crafting would immediately hit a limitation in fire and earth salts.

Also, I think price gouging, hoarding and market manipulation are great fun. We aren't allowed to do that in the real world. If it can be accomplished in a video game, I think that's kinda cool.

Epidemic wrote: I have to disagree with you DeathDealer. Game mechanics, alts and alliance politics play a huge role in this game. If I decide 1 player doesn't need to hoard 7 Arterium mines or 3 Obsidian mines and I try to do something about it i'll have everybody in the alliance, their alts and their uncles knocking at my door. Game mechanics makes it take 1000 years to build up 10 towns and 2 days to destroy them... I'm sure someone will read my statement and say 'stop whining' or some other derogatory remark that has to do with their perception of words on a screen and nothing to do with a statement I made to a feature that I think is hurting the game.

Thread necromancy aside, I'd note that my prediction about Silversteel came true. Massive price crash.