Lave Radio Network is in boom now. Was it last week?
Instead of nerf rares, how about buff other activities for merits?
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Actually checking my videos Brandy went from 24t on the 25th of October up to 72 on the 4th of November. So the allocation is lower now compared to Monday.
The allocation of both rare goods in Leesti went up from 7 and 14 on the 25th of October, to 14 and 28 on the 4th of November. Leathery Eggs have been 3 constantly. And Diso Ma Corn went from 128 to 120 on the 2nd of November to 30 on the 4th.
Can't tell how the allocations at Epsilon Indi or Eranin have changed because they're now in Infrastructure Failure.
It's all over the show
You want to get to rank 100 before the end of week ? With a squadron it's pretty easy, you can even do it while sleeping. Make everyone engineer a good T10 with high range pulse laser, then take everyone in the same private group, go to an enemy stronghold you can undermine and park there, then all you need is one guy firing at enemy ships while flying between the T10 to get 10k merits an hour, maybe more.
I am absolutely convinced that THAT is a nerf by Frontier!
Damn Frontier, this whole thing eventually makes me get more intimate and involved with the BGS than I ever wanted - something I never ever wanted to do. Or, to quote that horrible annoying song: Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?The allocation of both rare goods in Leesti went up from 7 and 14 on the 25th of October, to 14 and 28 on the 4th of November. Leathery Eggs have been 3 constantly. And Diso Ma Corn went from 128 to 120 on the 2nd of November to 30 on the 4th.
Can't tell how the allocations at Epsilon Indi or Eranin have changed because they're now in Infrastructure Failure.
It's all over the show
Maybe including the rares into the power play merit cycle has messed with their supply algorithms?
Temporary fluctation in market conditions. It will stablize in the medium to long term.
I tend to believe what Ian said, because he obviously knows his BGS. Meaning: Rares don't fluctuate with market conditions. Or at least, it was never reported before. That's how I understand it.
My gut says something changed. If intentional or unintentional... I have no clue.
Seems like a silly way to make rares relevant anyway. 
Honestly, I'd prefer the time spent on PP2 went into making a seasonal cycle for rares so they actually came and went instead of just being some weird limited supply.
Honestly, I'd prefer the time spent on PP2 went into making a seasonal cycle for rares so they actually came and went instead of just being some weird limited supply. 
My recollection is that in the original release and for a couple of years after, rares supplies were actually, well, "rare". Soontill Relics were 3 at a time in a normal state and 1 in a poor one (that was a fun engineer unlock for me...). Lavian Brandy was 8 or so in "normal" states and if you wanted to fill an Asp you'd hop around the entire Old Worlds cluster picking up everything. Finding any with double-digit supply was unusual.
Some time after earning rates in the rest of the game had risen to the point where the "rares trade" was an off-meta earnings option in any size of ship, Frontier substantially increased allocations in general - whether to try to make them a little more relevant or to ease engineer unlocks I don't know.
It may well be that in that process, the Orrere one ended up with a default supply of 120 which - again - no-one cared about despite it being ridiculously high. Even trading 120 at a time it's less profitable than some of the bulk commodities are nowadays, so until last week, it didn't matter at all.
Lave Radio went into Boom on Sunday morning, so an increase from 24 to 48 seems to match most rares' behaviour with that state change.
This is the thing - I think most of the fluctuations have been the normal result of BGS state changes on the controlling faction, with the usual reaction of players to the BGS doing anything that's not in their personal favour, combined with rare allocations and state effects on them being fairly under-documented because they've been irrelevant as a moneymaker for so long.
A couple like Orrere don't fit that pattern, though.
And this exactly happen when players suddenly meet with usual joys of BGS
I thought first about commenting few lines speratelly, but instead I have only one advice: please do first a search little around how things works in game (for years) and only then try accuse Fdev about something what I doubt they thought even about.Yesterday I checked how things changed after weekly tick and with one testing round considering 8 jumps get 1200 merits with small cargo ship. PP2 is in cases when it mixs with BGS about deeper ingame knowledge where things constantly changes ... sometimes we know how, sometimes it is less obvious
Personally I really like how were RG implemented into PP2, because it created a reason for me why to trade them and that even smaller trading ship can be very usefull.
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More seriously, does EDMC upload market prices to somewhere and does the somewhere keep all that history? I've been looking for an excuse to write yet another data scraper for a while now...