Thread: Khroma Ore price....will SE fix?    

So I am curious as to other's opinions.....

Khroma Ore price is pretty out of control....I think its 8 million per salvage body on my server now....and I think other servers are comparable.

We saw a similar thing happen to Dragon Talons.....the price on weskits was out of control...and they made them more common....SE seems to have done this stuff in the past....with the next version update coming soon, and the huge boom in salvage popularity, I think SE probably realizes supply is not keeping up with demand and thus prices are becoming stupid....

After all there is still considerable effort involved in getting the drops for a Salvage body piece......its not like making the price say 1M gil per body dimishes the effort required....

But it kind of sucks to put all that time and effort in only to see a 8M gil price tag at the end of the rainbow..
yes I am aware that you can mine these and get them from ISNM...but I think most would agree the price is a bit crazy...

So speculation!...Does anyone think SE will be addressing this anytime soon?

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item, drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixing ore prices.

Agreed-- but the ore prices are insult to injury IMHO.

All the ores in the world mean nothing if you don't have someone to synth them into ingots...

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixed ore prices.

Agreed. If you're doing salvage, the crafting materials cost should be the least of your problems.

And can there be a cap on the number of ellipsis (...) per post?

Originally Posted by Thevaultdweller

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixed ore prices.

Agreed. If you're doing salvage, the crafting materials cost should be the least of your problems.

And can there be a cap on the number of ellipsis (...) per post?

Why do ellipsis bother you? I do it in emails at work too....
If I am not writing an official document I don't care too much about proper punctuation etc....

Salvage has already been made beyond easy, the drop rates are fine compared to how nice most of the items are and the ore prices a little out of control. 100-150k per ore is fine but when its about 300k+ its insane. I had to pay 500k for the last 2 ores I got for my Ares.

Originally Posted by Judai

Supply and demand. The demand is pretty low for them, so the supply is generally controlled and the few people actually getting the ores charge alot. If there was an increase in demand, there would be more people farming them, more supply and lower prices in the end.

Have you ever actually tried to go mine ores yourself? You can do so for many hours with no one else in the zone and get maybe 1 ore.

Originally Posted by Judai

Supply and demand. The demand is pretty low for them, so the supply is generally controlled and the few people actually getting the ores charge alot. If there was an increase in demand, there would be more people farming them, more supply and lower prices in the end.

Um I just don't think they are very common...

Out of 6 ISNMs its not uncommon to see 0 drop..and we have a few people that mine for them in the shell most days its hours with none...

if Salvage drops were increased.....demand goes up.....will supply be able to catch up? Probably not....(I think increasing drop rate which would be nice would only add to the problem, but I don't think is practical....)

Think about 8 million gil in this economy...after months of work if your unlucky....its kind of shitty...not everyone has the means or time to make that kind of gil anymore. Its not like ISNM or mining is hard...its just another time sink with luck luck luck.
(BTW I don't need khroma ores...so don't think I am whining about not being able to afford them, I am one of the few that could..)

Originally Posted by Sidanoir

Originally Posted by Thevaultdweller

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixed ore prices.

Agreed. If you're doing salvage, the crafting materials cost should be the least of your problems.

And can there be a cap on the number of ellipsis (...) per post?

Why do ellipsis bother you? I do it in emails at work too....
If I am not writing an official document I don't care too much about proper punctuation etc....

I second the request for some sort of cap. Seriously, an ellipsis is to indicate an incomplete thought or a deliberate trail-off.

Typing like this... makes you look like... a hugely indecisive... idiot.

Originally Posted by StaplerGuy

Originally Posted by Sidanoir

Originally Posted by Thevaultdweller

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixed ore prices.

Agreed. If you're doing salvage, the crafting materials cost should be the least of your problems.

And can there be a cap on the number of ellipsis (...) per post?

Why do ellipsis bother you? I do it in emails at work too....
If I am not writing an official document I don't care too much about proper punctuation etc....

I second the request for some sort of cap. Seriously, an ellipsis is to indicate an incomplete thought or a deliberate trail-off.

Typing like this... makes you look like... a hugely indecisive... idiot.

I am not indecisive or an idiot, that is how I type on forums, if you do not like it skip my posts. And since when does the user get defined by the tool they use? If I use a comma does it make me a better person? Last time I checked when I swung a hammer into a nail, the type of nail I used or type of hammer didn't define my personality or indicate any intellectual deficiencies.

I got one ore from 13 hours of mining over a week

Originally Posted by Sidanoir

So speculation!...Does anyone think SE will be addressing this anytime soon?

I assume you want to know if you should buy them now.

If you buy them now, SE will add them as common drops to 1st Leutenant assaults and the price will plummet.
If you do not buy them now, demand will surely rise, SE will do nothing, and the price will go up to 1+ mil per ore.

Currently they are almost impossible to get. I used 30 stacks of picks, for a week mining every night 3 hours, in Mt. Zhayolm and got zero ores. Someone in my linkshell has mined about 16, but he has lived there 8 hours a day for the last 2 months.

People are forgeting that roughly 1/5th of the Salvage body market is currently non-existant (ie Marduk body). As such, if/when the Zhayolm 35s are discovered and as more groups complete their sets expect the demand to continue to go up. Consequently, unless more ways of obtaining the precious ore are added in the near future, the price will continue to rise...

Originally Posted by StaplerGuy

Originally Posted by Sidanoir

Originally Posted by Thevaultdweller

Originally Posted by SephirothYuyX

Id rather see the 3 equip pieces to make the item drop more frequently and/or drop from other places, than fixed ore prices.

Agreed. If you're doing salvage, the crafting materials cost should be the least of your problems.

And can there be a cap on the number of ellipsis (...) per post?

Why do ellipsis bother you? I do it in emails at work too....
If I am not writing an official document I don't care too much about proper punctuation etc....

I second the request for some sort of cap. Seriously, an ellipsis is to indicate an incomplete thought or a deliberate trail-off.

Typing like this... makes you look like... a hugely indecisive... idiot.

Hello dar nazi. How many guns do you have to make people respect your authority as the powerful internet grammar police?