The Price of Weapons
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by Zheng He
The word of the day is "balance".
I want to thank TheNorm for helping with the analysis. We were responding in comments to a shout by Phoenix Quinn. I smarted off, thinking the answer was a bit obvious, but TheNorm dropped the serious answer, which I elected to share in this article. Thanks TheNorm!
As in, the market is waaaay out of balance. Check out the price of weapons on the US market as of this morning:
Q1: $4.30
Q2: $11.43
Q3: $35.35
Q4: $38.60
Q5: $22.95
Q6: $28.75
That's right, Q4 weapons are 34% MORE than Q6, and Q3 weapons are 23% more! Why? I'm no economic genius, but this looks like a result of the rockets. Before the rocket factories, we would buy the strongest weapons we could afford, and the price was determined largely by the amount of damage. And the market for Q2-Q4 weapons was fairly small ... big money was in Q6 because that's what the big-time fighters use.
But a rocket requires an equal number of weapons of each size. So the mid-range weapons are much more in demand.
But why should Q3 and Q4 weapons cost *more*? Supply and demand, my 2-clicker friends, supply and demand. Players have invested in Q1, Q2, Q5 and Q6 factories for months, but not Q3 and Q4.
This is probably temporary. More Q3 and Q4 factories will be built soon, especially if the gods drop a reduced price factory upgrade special on us.
Alternatively, a game change idea might be to have rockets use more high quality weapons.
In the meantime, I'm ramping up production at my Q4 helicopter factory 🙂
. Want a job?
Of course, the biggest impact of the rockets is that it's gotten way harder to get those BH medals! Instead of seeing BHs regularly go for 1.5 to 2.0 million damage (division 4), I now see 3.0 to 8.0 million.
Zheng He
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Q3 and Q4 are above the recommended rate, +1% income tax increase in price, with a little extra cents. Others are close to this math as well. I take it that the supply of these lower Q weapons is in lower supply, while higher Q's are in greater supply. Eventually they will all even out to over supply.
Makes me wish I had invested in Q3 during the last upgrade. I was selling my Q2 at 20+ to Plato before the rocket factories, lost a big chunk of my profits now.
it won't last long
@Geronimo100 How long?
Prices have already fallen by about 4-5 dollars. I had the good fortune of owning a Q4, so I'm cashing in while I can.
Q3 just dropped at least $10, then went back up $15. Now its down $10 from there, but still levelling off higher than it was before. Could be high for a while mb...hopefully for me hehe
I said this like 50, err a bazillion times in comments, thief!
and you forgot to mention that q1 and q2 weapons were double what they were now when rockets came out, but people were easily able to put up q1 weapon factories, then as well q2's as those are pretty affordable and made it easy for people to make a quick buck but they have since dropped dramatically. Q3 and Q4 factories cost quite a bit more, so those are taking longer to be built/upgraded. However people are doing so, slowly..
@TheNorm: I couldn't find the comment thread to give you credit.
And good points about the Q1 and Q2 weps. I hadn't thought that part through.
What's today's upgrade?
It's already going back somewhat to normal. Had a Q4 company and cashed in while I could.