Supply and Demand or just plain greed?

[jason 55]

Just a heads up for Commanders, there are still players quoting 597,000 Cr for CMM Composites from their mega ships AVOID these in LHS 135 and LHS 528 as the galactic average is around 5,800 Cr and there are numerous settlements that provide large stocks for this price.
Profit is one thing but this type of greed should not be accepted, I just hope they end up with stock that they can only sell at a loss.

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

I guess there are some people who are willing to pay such prices, but honestly I'd rather find them myself and get them for cheaper. It's not actually all that difficult.

Seems like it could be a time vs money kind of thing.

 

[Neilski]

Mixed feelings about it.
On balance though I'd let the market settle the question, unless the supply for normal folk became exhausted by people buying it up to sell at maxed-out prices. (Bit like GPUs, right?)

 

[Dragsham]

Let the scalping begin!

 

[Freyar]

Not sustainable at that price.

 

[Commander Biscuit]

Profit is one thing but this type of greed should not be accepted,

How much profit is acceptable?

 

[metatheurgist]

Hello? Have you met Capitalism?

 

[Dragsham]

The average cmdr (those who've played for a few years) has billions of credits. So paying for cmm composite isn't a big deal. But finding them is. Inara is hopelessly out of date, edmc relies on cmdrs revisiting a system after someone has purchased whatever was available in order for the correct amount shown to be accurate. Fact is most of us are running about chasing ghost cmm composites that may or may not have been there some hours or even minutes prior to our arrival.
Think this bottleneck is intentionally in place to stop cmdrs building stuff as easily as they'd want.

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

Money, money, money. I wonder how many cmdr's will be stuck with thousands of CMM's on their FC's as most places that have CMM got a big boost in stocks today from an Fdev tweak.

 

[Ultimate Ship the Second]

Won't be stuck with it for long, you could stick nearly two full FCs of CMM into an Ocellus starport

 

[lanier67]

Just a heads up for Commanders, there are still players quoting 597,000 Cr for CMM Composites from their mega ships AVOID these in LHS 135 and LHS 528 as the galactic average is around 5,800 Cr and there are numerous settlements that provide large stocks for this price.
Profit is one thing but this type of greed should not be accepted, I just hope they end up with stock that they can only sell at a loss.

I fell into that trap only noticed it when i hit buy. 375 million creditrs went poof. I was very annoyed and wrote a nasty message to the owner on Inara, but ofc he never answered

 

[AngryAntz]

If they are getting buyers, good for them. If not they will either have lots of stock or they will drop the price.

As there is very little in the way of credit sinks in the game, lots of players (not me) have billions of credits, so if it saves time they are happy to pay whatever because to them credits are meaningless.

 

[lanier67]

If they are getting buyers, good for them. If not they will either have lots of stock or they will drop the price.

As there is very little in the way of credit sinks in the game, lots of players (not me) have billions of credits, so if it saves time they are happy to pay whatever because to them credits are meaningless.

As I took a long hiatus from the game and restarted playing it a lot for 2 months now, 400 million is still quite hefty for me

 

[AngryAntz]

As I took a long hiatus from the game and restarted playing it a lot for 2 months now, 400 million is still quite hefty for me

I just came back after a break as well, I am about to make my first billion. But a lot of long term players are sitting on quite the pile (of credit, they may have another type from sitting too long).

 

[Jmanis]

Well, all those sell orders are pointless now since CMM resupply got buffed again

 

[Desirsar]

Really wish we could add funds to our colonies to boost payouts. If I'm paying that much, I expect delivery...

 

[Bigmaec]

If only we had a player driven market, that would be awesome. Oh well, we had one for half a week.

 

[Dragsham]

Think a player driven economy is the one major change that fdev need to face. And l cannot understand why they object to it so vehemently.

 

[Jmanis]

If only we had a player driven market, that would be awesome. Oh well, we had one for half a week.

Think a player driven economy is the one major change that fdev need to face. And l cannot understand why they object to it so vehemently.

Honestly, i don't think it's FD who necessarily object.... noting the demand for CMMs spawned lots of consternation from the player base to just "increase supply volumes".

Players have been asking for a "player driven market" but to date, there's no need for it, because players haven't needed commodities til now. Tritium was the first, and of course there's mineable-only things which, while there's a niche to sell scraps of random commodities needed for missions, why bother mining methane clathrates to sell to a mission runner when you can do straight to LTDs with the same effort?

TDCs were the first real foray into it, because high demand item that people just want to purchase coz scary AX stuff.

But whether it's CG commodities or colonisation commodities... scarcity (i.e player demand) has always preceded complaints to buff supply of Commodity X, because in over 10 years of the game operating, it's not something players have ever needed to deal with... so they're conditioned to demand being a bug/ grind, not a feature in a larger market gameplay.

So i think it's a complex cultural issue now, rather than just sheer will of FD, though that hasn't helped.

 

[Razzerman]

I found the CMM Composites we’re fairly easy to find; it was the Insulating Membranes that neatly drove me insane (cue for a song of some kind)