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Pinstar Colton
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Posted - 2012.05.25 14:09:00 -
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I've noticed some prices for PI goods have been dropping lately. Anyone have any thoughts as to what may be causing this? How they might be over supplied...or if demand is starting to dry up for one reason or another.
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Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
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Posted - 2012.05.25 16:47:00 -
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That makes sense.
I say they just need to stop seeding command centers and make them player-built with research-able BPOs that use PI goods as the raw materials to build them.
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Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
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Posted - 2012.05.25 17:35:00 -
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Skydell wrote:There is also a bug in the PI scan and volume. Every now and then I log in to check my PI and I will have millions of raw mats over night. It's so very random it's not even something I can bug report because the bug report system is based on being able to replicate the bug and I have no idea what it's doing or how to replicate it.
That isn't a bug, that is lower Planetology/ Advanced Planetology skills.
Without full Planetology skills, what you see on scans is not 100% accurate to what is actually there and total/hourly extractions estimates can be off in either directions.
In your case, there exist "nuggets". Tiny patches of extreme productivity that appear and vanish quickly. These patches are very small in size and tend not to show up at all on the scans of lower Planetology skilled colony builders. You very well may have accidentally put a few extractor heads on one of these nuggets, resulting in a metric F-load of goods.
From my understanding, Planetology IV and advanced Planetology IV will let you see nuggets. These nuggets are one of the incentives they put out there to encourage serious colony builders to invest even more skill points in the field.
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Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
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Posted - 2012.05.30 11:43:00 -
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That, I have no clue about. Could just be price lemmings? People who already have a P3 > P4 factory setup and are just buying goods to maintain production without checking up on what the price of the P4 is doing?
Either that or they know something we don't and are hoarding P4s until some new thing causes a fresh wave of demand in them and a subsequent spike in their price...but even then they would be better off just buying and hoarding the P4s directly...
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Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
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Posted - 2012.05.30 13:33:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:Another possibility is the fact that POS's are starting to be taken down.
I was talking to someone in null last night and they told me that the general isotope interdiction created by Hulkageddon has raised prices so much even THEY are taking down POS's.
I am sure I am going to hear the comment "costs are irrelevant, manufacturers just pass the costs along to the consumer" , but I am not believing that completely. I think there is a significant group of POS owners who may have said "enough".
This is both a very valid and very scary point. With hulkageddon being extended indefinitely, this could have an even more profound impact on higher end PI.
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Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
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Posted - 2012.05.31 02:45:00 -
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Ken Sunji wrote:EDIT: Point already posted.
Would anyone agree that it also could have a bit to do with the rising cost of fuel for towers, thus making running a POS less desirable therefore decreasing demand?
I agree that POS fuel PI has been dropping in price, likely for that reason...except for coolant which seems to remain strong in both price and volume.
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