really ? how is rewarding spending 15-20 eggs worth of resources to get 10 eggs back ? why am i doing these chains, or parts of them at least if they reward me LESS than i spent completing them!Originally Posted by Chilly728
really ? how is rewarding spending 15-20 eggs worth of resources to get 10 eggs back ? why am i doing these chains, or parts of them at least if they reward me LESS than i spent completing them!
There is also the 100 Eggs reward at the end of each chain.
SasleiaHope on .de made an interesting point about pricing, until late October the old Trade system was still active and 400 (a 'stack') of any resource was the maximum that could be asked for any one thing, with that cap gone pricing is left entirely to us and as servers have aged and people have more things prices have reflected that.
Even so Chilly728 makes an excellent point, doing any of the chains one can afford offers the opportunity for some very nice things.
Hi,
May I thank Bob for opening the thread.
Last year I spotted something during the Euro Cup Event.
The price of a football was silly daft stupid :-)
So I bought £10 worth of gems went to the shop and filled my boots with footballs. I sold them all and levelled up virtually my entire building stock to L3.
There's no way I could have done this without such an opportunity.
Now whilst many people will play this game for free and I respect and understand their choice my suggestion would be to do the same now as I did earlier with the footballs.
Go and buy £10 worth of eggs. Sell them at silly crazy stupid prices and wait. See if you can buy them back later in the process for a cheaper price or just use the resources (20 gold per egg is a bit steep - 18 is nearer the mark :-) to upgrade your island.
Just a contrarians thoughts and in no way is my suggestion meant to be anything else other than genuine :-)
Nuttymut :-)
The big counter to this whole thing is basically like trying to look for patterns in the stock market. If everyone uses that tactic, it wont work. Imagine if all players failed to buy any Easter Eggs because they were waiting for prices to drop, then come the end of the event, the demand will skyrocket with all players trying to buy back Eggs that have already left the market because they've been spent on Floating Residences or Veteran Generals!
Then the prices will only do one thing, sky rocket!
Tricky situation that you can't really double guess, best way might be to keep an eye on the market and get a feel for when it makes sense to buy rather than hanging on too late!
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I agree. I bought 100 eggs for 1950 coins just so I could have my third fast explorer ( now 2 experienced, 1 savage scout ). He is now being used to search for more eggs along with 2 fast, and 3 normal explorers. Potentially 24 eggs per day if I send the normal ones on long searches, and the fast ones on very long. I also have all 5 floating residences.
However, like most people here, I will not be buying any more eggs until the prices become more reasonable, because I have bought what I wanted from the event. The rest of the eggs will probably go towards another Vet General, or failing that, Watermills. The point is that once players have bought what they wanted with the eggs, they won't buy more, so the prices should come down..........eventually. :-)
Prior to this event a vocal minority claimed they was being treated unfairly because they would not be able to get the easter vet general on account that they had already had obtained one last year (pass me a shovel please). BB to my amazment caved in and granted these people their wish. This had lead to the situation where every one qualifies to obtain one of these desirable easter vets. This vocal minority obviously are high level players, most of them in the level 50 group. With the current development of the game they quite clearly don't need the extra vet for getting XP faster, so they must be thinking ahead to when PvP comes in. Not knowing exactly PvP will work they took the step of deciding bigger is going to be better in the PvP envroment. I'm willing to bet this group is the cause of the current egg prices, after all they have the resources to set the market prices on the 1st day. It is in their intrests to keep the prices as high as possible so as to deny other's the chance of getting enough eggs and by doing so ensuring that their armys wont be as big. Go back to the thread where they demanded the extra vet, make a note of their names and when they invite you to PvP them, tell them their army's can take a long march off a short pier. By denying them PvpP hopefully this vocal minority of cry babies will abandon the game and seek pastures new.
Hi Doretheus,By denying them PvpP hopefully this vocal minority of cry babies will abandon the game and seek pastures new.
May I suggest that this comment wasn't particularly constructive please.
I think BB's change of mind allowing players who already had a Vet Gen to acquire a second was both reasonable and extremely fair. I think it also showed that BB are prepared to react to a situation and work constructively with the playing community. I find this very encouraging and I can only thank BB for their current approach to the playing community.
Furthermore it's clearly a matter of choice how much any player spends on the game. No one is forcing any player to spend anything on the game. However, clearly those who do spend money on the game are the only reason it continues to be available to those who don't.
I am not sure if this is your perception of events or if you have actual numbers to hand which allow you make this claim. It would be incorrect of me not to allow you to support this claim with those figures.Prior to this event a vocal minority claimed they was being treated unfairly
This really doesn't support your first comment does it? You have stated that a small minority of players have complained. If the decision to allow a second Vet Gen only applies to this minority surely it would not have a huge effect on the market prices? In addition if the decision actually applied to a larger number of players then it suggests that the number of players who asked BB to review their rules is actually completley irrelevant. In both cases I would respectfully suggest that the number of players who approached BB is nothing more than a red herring.This had lead to the situation where every one qualifies to obtain one of these desirable easter vets.
Again I would like to respectfully suggest that I should allow you to support this comment with some numbers please.This vocal minority obviously are high level players, most of them in the level 50 group.
It would make a great deal of sense to have superior numbers in a PvP environment. Why would any player not want to be in such a position? I feel players at any level should be allowed to think ahead and attempt to put themselves in a good position for PvP. However, if I have understood things correctly PvP will be a choice for players. Players will be allowed to opt in or out of PvP.Not knowing exactly PvP will work they took the step of deciding bigger is going to be better in the PvP envroment.
Of course you're willing to bet on something that's intangible. I have suggested in another post that high egg prices are actually a very good way for low budget players to make their money go further in the game. By buying £10 worth of eggs and selling them at the current high prices a player could raise significant quantities of gold with which to invest in their Island.I'm willing to bet this group is the cause of the current egg prices, after all they have the resources to set the market prices on the 1st day. It is in their intrests to keep the prices as high as possible so as to deny other's the chance of getting enough eggs and by doing so ensuring that their armys wont be as big.
In my opinion I think your post lacks any real substance to support you claims. I would respectfully suggest you can challenge my opinion by providing some additional information which would allow me to reconsider my opinion.
I think BB's decision to allow a second Vet Gen was fair, reasonable timely and simply the correct choice.
Best
Nuttymut
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Your analogous post about the stock market and the price of Easter Eggs reminded of my own strategies that I have used in the past to invest in stocks and shares.
Currently I am acquiring eggs for less than 17gc/ea.
Value investors employ unique short term strategies to make a profit. They have extremely tight filters and will sit on the sidelines waiting for their entry criterion to arise. The term value has distinct measurable and quantifiable information. Value investors should not be confused with contrarian investors though. However, both disciplines do have some similar aspects.
Value investors would find the egg market on TSO an impossible place to speculate. The fixed number of aggs available would dilute the essential value of their investment. Contrarian investors would be selling what eggs they do have whilst demand was strong. They would indeed take a contrarian stance to the way the market is flowing. Their "bet" would be against the herd.
Hedge Funds would of course be all over the TSO market place as there as so many fixed points within the sum that they can wade in and control the supply and demand by essentially using large volumes of cash. Hedge funds love fixed points where variables should exist. It allows them to take profit whilst others take the risk.
Are Eggs suitable for the average pension policy. Well I'm afraid not. They are a short term commodity. Their price is intrinsically linked to the value of the Veteran General and that's a fixed economic target. It would be impossible to achieve pound cost averaging over such a short term.
These are interesting times and it will be excting to see where this market takes us :-)
Nuttymut :-)
Don't forget Coins and Granite help make up the FX market!
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