Jasdemi wrote:PS: No wonder we experience such crazy inflation in game. NIC being generated with minimal efforts.
sry jas but where do you get your numbers from?
infaltion would mean that prizes would go up. but i see only the oposit. look in the market at the raw materials. the prices have been droping for over 1,5 years.
i have sold epriton for 14nic over a year ago. we are at 4.20 atm. and were at over 5nic not long ago.
noralgis is sold for 9nic (sry would not go out doing that f****** work for that ammout of money...)
just alpha resources havent moved that much.
resource prices overall got down so much and you talk about inflation? when prices go down it might be deflation but surly not the other way around.
fact is that we have more input on the market then ppl buying up. thats the reason prices are going down instead of up.
and you still forget the basics (again).
you first have to get the beacons. speeding up the process in killing it is one thing, but its not that you can create beacons out of thin air in a rapid way. only way to create them out of thin air is artefacting, and that is realy a long way to go. artefact for 10h and count your beacons. it will not be too many.
second way is beacons from tokens. well here you can ask, either you can farm tokens too fast, or the prices for the beacons are too low. so now you have to count your farming time for tokens against the avarage worth of the beacons loot.
some math for you:
a T2 racial mech beacon costs 40tokens.
it will yield a avarage:
NIC (Plasma sold at 325): 6,7mil
Kernels T4: ~24-30
Some loot and higher tier items. which are hart to tell whats it worth. dependend what you do with it. but any way the plasma is the main part.
if you buy your tokens on th emarket: price before the anoucement was ~120.000nic (now lower)
thats 4,8mil vs 6,7mil plasma. = 1,9mil nic gain per beacon at a investment of nearly 5mil.
well it it would be much lower it would hardy be worth the job. as soon as the patch comes out i guess prices will drop even further because time of killing beacons will rise by quite a bit.
so: one token to beacon to plasma to nic = (6,7m plasma / 40 tokens) 167.500nic then the question arises how much time do i need to get the token + how much time do i need to get the nic out of the token (beacon).
THIS IS THE QUESTION THAT IS IMPORTANT, NOT JUST HOW FAST YOU CAN KILL THE BEACONS!!!
(ps.: nic ratio of T3 mech beacons per tokens are worse. yes i have numbers...)
but back to your topic:
terraforming is part of the game. using it against npcs is also.
and i still think the poping beacons is not that big of a problem. would be otherwise if beacons were for free. if there is a problem then in the way how to get the beacons.
EDIT:
my mesmer with suport can create (solo with support bot) on alpha2 in the right spawns plasma worth up to 26mil nic per hour.
now compare beacons that are mostly done in groups and compare alpha farming with this.
do your math and tell me again if its that big of a issue. when getting the beacons is takeing into consideration. and split the group of members doing the beacons on multible spawns on alpha... ...