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Vestalia Gaea The Echelon	Posted - 2006.12.17 18:10:00 - [1] Hey, I was wondering, I just had an auction for a very well specialised Caldari PvP character with 20m SP and a buyout of 3.4b with no reserve, and the highest I got was 3.1b...Before i saw those type characters sell for 4b quite easily. And industrial and research characters have gone down much worse. Is there any major underlying reason for this? 'A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.'
Baun 4S Corporation Morsus Mihi	Posted - 2006.12.17 19:38:00 - [2] I don't know what happened ... I sold a 19m SP Caldari PvP specialist for 4.3b and a 3m minmatar for 800m. Now people are getting 35m SP chars for 4b. Obviously this is not the time to sell characters. The Enemy's Gate is Down
Vestalia Gaea The Echelon	Posted - 2006.12.17 19:39:00 - [3] Originally by: Baun I don't know what happened ... I sold a 19m SP Caldari PvP specialist for 4.3b and a 3m minmatar for 800m. Now people are getting 35m SP chars for 4b. Obviously this is not the time to sell characters. Reckon it might be due to CCP's changes to character creation and starting off with 800k SP instead of 100k on average before? 'A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.'
Labogh Caldari Angelic Industries	Posted - 2006.12.17 19:46:00 - [4] Originally by: Vestalia Gaea Reckon it might be due to CCP's changes to character creation and starting off with 800k SP instead of 100k on average before? The 700k SP extra is minor compared to the total SP of any character being sold. I don't think that's the reason.
Vestalia Gaea The Echelon	Posted - 2006.12.17 20:01:00 - [5] Originally by: Labogh Originally by: Vestalia Gaea Reckon it might be due to CCP's changes to character creation and starting off with 800k SP instead of 100k on average before? The 700k SP extra is minor compared to the total SP of any character being sold. I don't think that's the reason. Perhaps people have invested a lot of isk into the new ship BPOs and don't have a lot to spend anymore on characters? 'A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.'
Iavia	Posted - 2006.12.17 21:00:00 - [6] The surge in the price of trit can't be helping either.
Motivated Prophet Zerodot Schools Power Corrupts Industry's	Posted - 2006.12.18 00:02:00 - [7] Edited by: Motivated Prophet on 18/12/2006 00:02:08 Originally by: Vestalia Gaea Originally by: Labogh Originally by: Vestalia Gaea Reckon it might be due to CCP's changes to character creation and starting off with 800k SP instead of 100k on average before? The 700k SP extra is minor compared to the total SP of any character being sold. I don't think that's the reason. Perhaps people have invested a lot of isk into the new ship BPOs and don't have a lot to spend anymore on characters? Actually, in part due to this, I genuinely believe we've hit a bit of temporary deflation. Note also that a lot of "standard" faction modules and ships have dropped--DG Invulnerability Fields are hitting 260m or so, and CNR's are under a billion. Actually, there might be another explanation for the CNR price drop, but the invulns' drop rates haven't changed. MP
Vestalia Gaea The Echelon	Posted - 2006.12.18 06:38:00 - [8] So the general consent is that the prices will rise back to 'normal'? As in 200m per SP fr good PvP chars and 100-150m for industrials? I ask cause if so i'll delay selling 3-4 characters for later 'A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.'
Fliewatuet Angelus dos Business	Posted - 2006.12.18 09:57:00 - [9] Originally by: Motivated Prophet Actually, in part due to this, I genuinely believe we've hit a bit of temporary deflation. Note also that a lot of "standard" faction modules and ships have dropped--DG Invulnerability Fields are hitting 260m or so, and CNR's are under a billion. Actually, there might be another explanation for the CNR price drop, but the invulns' drop rates haven't changed. The change of prices in faction and officer stuff modules comes from the replacement of escrow with contracts. Escrow was easy to use. One look at it and everybody could use it to find whatever he wants. Thats a bit more difficult with contracts. Selling your stuff is hard now, i've stopped trading at all and the plex farmers that supplied me with bulk deals before are non too happy about having to sell their stuff now. Well... at least partly the contracts system is to blame. :-( --
babyblue	Posted - 2006.12.18 11:06:00 - [10] You need to factor in market saturation. Surely there is some point at which everyone who wants one or more alts of various flavours has got them. Then you are left with either character disposal (bad reputation in-game, will buy another character) or the smaller stream of players who want another character and have the money to purchase one.
Vestalia Gaea The Echelon	Posted - 2006.12.18 16:05:00 - [11] I've actually got a good idea now as to why this may be. If you've noticed, GTC prices have gone down a lot again, and imo about half of the people that buy Chars aren't buying alts but are buyign their first main with rl money, just they do it through gtc. Now with gtc being cheaper, they can't get as much money as before and hence aren't prepared to pay more? 'A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.'
Jaden Kane	Posted - 2006.12.18 18:30:00 - [12] Don't be too sure about the new characters. I created a Caldari toon with 808,507 SPs Intelligence 9 Perception 14 Charisma 3 Willpower 9 Memory 10 Electronics 4 Electronic upgrades 1 Engineering 2 Shield Compensation 2 Shield Operation 3 Shield Upgrade 2 Gunnery 5 Sharpshooter 1 Small Hybrid 5 Mining 1 Iron Will 2 Learning 1 Spatial Awareness 4 Missile Bombardment 3 Missile Launcher Op 4 Rapid Launch 3 Rockets 4 Standard Missiles 3 Science 2 Caldari Frigate 3 Spaceship Command 4 Now tell me if I'm wrong but that's a REALLY NICE setup and very targeted toward Caldari Bonuses. I mean I could if I wanted to go get Small Hybrid Specialist. Can't exactly complain about that. And the missile and Shield skills to boot. No additional training is needed if you wanted to go out and have a rocket spamming hard hitting Kestrel
Ronwe	Posted - 2007.01.25 16:28:00 - [13] Originally by: Vestalia Gaea So the general consent is that the prices will rise back to 'normal'? As in 200m per SP fr good PvP chars and 100-150m for industrials? I ask cause if so i'll delay selling 3-4 characters for later there you have your answer you sell 3 chars and wonder why prices drop? Its like everything else in this game.... greedy tards like him start 12000 chars in order to sell them in one year for omg 12 billion each.... mostly all of this chars are named 5h1th3ad 1-12 with a standard skill tree like hac med gund II and learnings....let me tell you one thing you are not the first and not the only one selling charas in order to make the nber wallet..... for those who sold their chars for less then an apple an egg...your fault ..... its a char if price doesnt meet your desire dont sell it...(mention it in auction!!)
Exelsior Colossus Enterprises	Posted - 2007.01.25 18:03:00 - [14] Originally by: Ronwe Originally by: Vestalia Gaea So the general consent is that the prices will rise back to 'normal'? As in 200m per SP fr good PvP chars and 100-150m for industrials? I ask cause if so i'll delay selling 3-4 characters for later there you have your answer you sell 3 chars and wonder why prices drop? Its like everything else in this game.... greedy tards like him start 12000 chars in order to sell them in one year for omg 12 billion each.... mostly all of this chars are named 5h1th3ad 1-12 with a standard skill tree like hac med gund II and learnings....let me tell you one thing you are not the first and not the only one selling charas in order to make the nber wallet..... for those who sold their chars for less then an apple an egg...your fault ..... its a char if price doesnt meet your desire dont sell it...(mention it in auction!!) Old thread necro is bad m'kay :) In any case i sold two of the chars for very decent prices eventually, just had to find the right buyer
Trit	Posted - 2007.01.25 18:18:00 - [15] Edited by: Trit on 25/01/2007 18:15:11 Originally by: Iavia The surge in the price of trit can't be helping either. What am I going for now?
Dr Slurm General Commodities	Posted - 2007.01.26 15:21:00 - [16] I think the Power of 2 program had a lot to do with more characters being available for sale, and thus the drop in price and sales. Check out the Market History OCR Project here

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