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MarketMatters # 23. New Name, Old Spiel

Day 2,119, 17:22 • Published in Canada Poland

• by TheSocialistChicken

Shoi has started his weekly articles back up, and 3 months seems like a long enough hiatus. TSPWTTM, NAMW, MarketMatters. Whatever you call it, It's back! Since the last edition, Gold prices are down. Weapons prices are up slightly. And no one cares about the food market. The biggest news stories since the last edition is that Canada has been freed, America occupied, and the 6th World war rages on. oh, and there is no longer a thing called income tax. Its now called work tax. Sounds dystopian to me personally. So, Lets get down to it shall we...

WEAPONS

Compared to my last edition 3 months ago, not too much has changed. I of course missed a huge price jump caused by the work tax, and from memory right after it dropped, the markets are stabilizing. another thing different from the last edition is that we finally have bonuses again, thus our production has increased. Again, it seems that the markets are the exact same as when I published the last edition of NAMW. FFS plato, fix the economy!

FOODS

Speaking of deceased farm animals and sticks, No one cares about the food market. or at least they didn't. Q4,5, and 7 are all over the place. I'm not really sure what the hell is going on, there hasn't been any missions in a while. Just one of those weird little things that happens occasionally.

OTHER MARKETS

Starting next week, I'm going to use average wage instead of highest paying job on market for this chart.

MONETARY MARKET

price up from week start, though down from last edition in June. The only way for this market to recover is for the admins to do away with gold limits,plato to fix the economy, and for me to beat a dead horse.

Well, it's back. Thank you for reading. Reporting for the eCanadian Business Weekly, this is TheSocialistChicken. Stay Classy eCanada!

Comments

DMV3 Day 2,119, 23:25

Nice article, keep up the good work. o/

Lordjas Day 2,119, 23:45

I am excited to see your take on the budget coming out soon ahah right...?!?!?

T.E. Lwrence Day 2,120, 01:22

Keep up the excellent work dood

Addy Lawrence Day 2,120, 04:13

Any idea what volumes of activity are transacted at those prices?

I can't even sell 55 cent food in eTurkey anymore, I think that the effective prices are lower than reported here, much lower.

Chochi Day 2,120, 14:57

You're talking high Q food, right? I imagine that the volumes are pretty low. Price per energy recovered is usually more important that energy recovered per unit.

Most players, except the young, have enough storage to be able to buy cheaper, low density food and the young can't afford expensive, high calorie food anyways. I can tell you that I've only ever bought above Q3 food when the price has been within a cent per unit of energy recovered but I am pretty stingy.

Weapons also probably have low sales as well but it's a different kind of market with the big split between low Q weapons, which newer, poorer players buy, and high Q (especially Q7) for the rich... who usually won't buy a weapon if there's a cheaper one elsewhere for sale. Plus with charities, MUs and parties, I'd say it's too hard to actually make any further assumptions about the weapons market.

Anyways, I think price per energy recovered for food would be another nice metric to add here, TheSocialistChicken.