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URGENT: Economic Update!

Day 1,304, 07:56 • Published in USA Switzerland

• by Kishvier

Hey guys, I'll continue updating this article throughout the day, I expect prices to fluctuate highly, but will end in a much higher spot than before (In food and weapons, plus RM's) but a new rule has been put into the game that you can eat your daily portion of food every 6 hours after the amount of food you can eat hit zero (Not 4, or 3, but 0). This has already rocked the economy incredibly hard. Lets take a look at prices today as of 7:30 server time, compare to the prices of the market on Day 1,303:

Food (Expect prices to continue to rise):

Type | Day 1,303 | Day 1,304 | Percent Change
Q1|$0.14|$0.48|+70%
Q2|$0.28|$1.00|+72%
Q3|$0.54|$1.75|+69%
Q4|$0.76|$2.11|+64%
Q5|$1.00|$2.50|+60%

Weapons (Expect prices to continue to rise):

Type | Day 1,303 | Day 1,304 | Percent Change
Q1|$2.35|$3.98|+41%
Q2|$4.94|$5.00|+1%
Q3|$7.44|$10.00|+26%
Q4|$11.67|$19.80|+41%
Q5|$11.56|$30.00|+61%

Houses (Expect prices to fall):

Type | Day 1,303 | Day 1,304 | Percent Change
Q1|$487.00|$485.00|->0%
Q5|$3193.55|$2000.00|-38%

Raw Materials (Expect prices to rise):

Type | Day 1,303 | Day 1,304 | Percent Change
Food|$0.10|$0.31|+68%
Weapon|$0.13|$0.40|+77%

As you can see, we are having a massive rise in the value of everything because of the new rule, discounting houses (My heart goes out to those with housing companies, houses are more worthless than they were before, now). Expect prices to continue fluctuating throughout the next few days, keep checking in for updates.

Kishvier's Advice: BUY, BUY, BUY! With prices rising the worst you could do is save yourself some money, and possibly make a profit? I know thats what I'm doing, buying low, selling high. You should too. Also, don't forget to remember that this new rule answered so many people's wishes, the mastercard players have a much smaller drop in the bucket now. There's irony for ya. 😉

-Kishi

Comments

Kishvier Day 1,304, 07:56

Kishvier's Advice: BUY, BUY, BUY! With prices rising the worst you could do is save yourself some money, and possibly make a profit? I know thats what I'm doing, buying low, selling high. You should too. Also, don't forget to remember that this new rule answered so many people's wishes, the mastercard players have a much smaller drop in the bucket now. There's irony for ya.

Rican Day 1,304, 08:10

SpiffMonkie Day 1,304, 08:13

it's not going to have any effect on mastercard players... considering they get this boost too... so they get the extra FF's and their mastercard drops. which allow them to do more damage than before.

Damon Mortis Day 1,304, 08:38

Kishvier Day 1,304, 08:50

@SpiffMonkie: But remember, there is a larger pool of damage, meaning that each point of damage they do has a lower ratio to that of other players. If I do 10 damage (8 base, 2 mastercard) as a master card player, and the rest of the players do 1,000 damage, then I contribute a total of 1% total damage. If I am able to pull out an extra 4 damage off of my base (A 50% rise), then I will pull of 14 damage, while the other players will pull a 50% rise also, totaling 1,500 damage. In this case I only deal 0.93% of the damage in the battle, a 7% decrease.

Sure, this won't make things fair, but it makes their presence a little less felt.