I'm trying to understand what the argument is here. You say eggs will drop in price to 5k a piece of people buy them for only that price. That's quite obvious, it is the same for every item.

 

I agree with you goddess they are worth to much at the moment and it does take the challenge out of ECC for builders, although the price they are at currently does mean that horses are for people with money they should be lowered to allow people who cannot afford them and who have not been lucky on the voting system to get them.

But one example of market fixing is what KvBillo tried to do with E-Repairs where he got maybe 3 quarters of the server to start charging 500 for a single e-repair but myself and many others refused to pay this and kept our stance at 200 which did stop it from being raised, now flip this so it is looking from the side off the seller who is watching the people want horse egg prices dropped some people will crack and still buy them for the high prices but it is also will the seller crack and sell for a lower price.

Changing the price of an item on the market is hard to be done by the players alone although we are the ones dealing in it, it would be harder than one might think for this to happen, some players would go for it and others would not. but the ecc market and any market in the world works on simple supply and demand, the prices will go down as people get more and more of them which while the market will not become saturated the horse egg will become more common and drop in price, one example of this could be the Nstar which when first introduced I sold some for 1k each but look how they have dropped down to between 150 and 250.

In conclusion the price of horse eggs will go down but trying to fix it would be un-effective, the market will do this its self over time, it might not be a rapid change but with the looks of how horse eggs have already dropped in price from what I paid to what it is now even if it does slow off then they will reach 5k soon enough

 

How to economy:

1. be welikeike22 and rabidworm
2. buy all the diamonds
3. sell them for like 1/3 price.
4. ???
5. profit

 

Artificial price fixing in an economy rarely works. The idea of a the "invisible hand" is what controls prices. Things are worth what people pay for them.
Trying to get a cabal of people together to attempt a price fixing scheme rarely works (erep good example) there will always be an outlier that throws a money wrench in to your plans.
There will always be someone willing to pay more than others are willing to pay.

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand

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Then I would just buy for 6k to get above everyone, so will others, this will not work because 15k is what people are comfortable paying for the horse egg. The item is in demand at this time that is how the economy works. I could go make the same assumption about nether stars. They are 150 each to the server yet people are buying for double that price. It is how the economy works, if there is an item in demand the value increases you can't change the price of something without owning 80% of the item then being one of the only sellers. At that point, you could change the price. People who have horse eggs are not going to want to sell them for 5k when they can simply get 15k, there is nothing you can do to stop that until there is enough eggs on the server for everyone. Another point is that keeping them up at 15k is getting more builders to vote (I have no clue why you were saying that it was driving builders away...) if I was builder I would be voting every day trying to get that 1 break to get 15k and insta resident. It is almost like 1 ticketers in a way. All in all this idea will most likely fail, I am sorry.

 

Ohmrskittykat pretty much said what I was going to say. I would be one of the people who breaks ranks, buys for 6k and then marks it up to 10 or 15k

 

...because that is what people are willing to pay

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Turn down the awesome!

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GoddessLaverna I get everything you are saying and it just does not make sense... Ok if your builder friend won all that money in lotto I find it unlikely that he just "quit" the server. If money came to easy for me then I would be buying donation features and still enjoy the game. It is not every lotto that a builder wins, or voting for that matter.

 

Builders have won multiple thousands of dollars... it happens, and to be honest I don't care if a builder quits, I see it as that builder is taking all that money out of the economy for us. Also builders would normally just throw it back into lotto or just buy resident and mayor. I am sorry your friend quit but he is not to bright he could have used that money more wisely then just quitting the server. If things fell into my lap easily I would be quit happy, people sell donations for money to just fall into their hands, so no I do not think people would normally just quit. Yes I have cheated in games like grand theft auto I think that it saves time and I get just as much enjoyment out of the game without spending hours playing it when I could be doing something else.

 

Unless you are in a position to purchase almost every horse egg on the
Server and sell them cheap with great financial loss for yourself this woul be near impossible.

 

I don't see builders quitting very often over the fact that they have too much money. Any person who would be of value to this server would stick around and see what all the server has to offer regardless of how much money they have. We have several sources of information on the website and wiki that clearly explains a vast amount of uses for the money. Asking in chat will also lead the builder to information on what they can spend the money. Losing new players over something like this is trivial, seeing as we gain many new users every day already.

Here's another thing to consider. This is an economy server. Economies are supposed to be player driven, which makes your suggestion kind of anti-economy. Horse eggs are still fairly rare, although as more time passes their rarity will drop, so just be patient for the price drop.

High Demand + Low Stock = High Prices : Low Demand + High Stock = Low Prices

 

if ya'll ever played an economy at all, everyone who gets a hold of a horse egg would have syndicated together, they would still be close to what they were when horse update hit ECC, problem that i've seen many and many times is everyone undercuts everyone until an item is close to dime-a-dozen.