Originally
posted by
Chutya123:
Originally
posted by
Naviii:
congrats, AR! you kept your promise of keeping the tech prices up. haha!
So looks like some1 posted on some clan website that they were gonna keep the tech prices high. And other clan members followed. This makes it much easier to follow thru and keep them prices high. An individual without this knowledge and acting alone would have much more difficult time keeping them high all the time without co-conspirators. You dont have to actively collude, just having the knowledge that 1 big player is going to do this, makes others plan & act accordingly, which in turn, makes the 1 big player's job of keeping them high easier. Just like how when Federal Reserve signals its gonna lower interest rate, market participants front run it and already lower it to Fed's desired range even before Fed acts to lower them. Similar concept. With only 2 dozen real human players on this server, 2 - 3 players deciding to keep price of something high can easily do it if they are good.
Not taking anything away from AR or anybody who did well, just saying as long as clan members keep bringing their clan influences and advantages to solo servers its never gonna be a level playing field. In an ideal world, clan leaders & members would self-censor and not post anything that would give themselves or other members any advantages. Clan leaders would enforce policies that go against the individualistic spirit of solo servers. But that would require guts and honesty. Other than that, the only way a non-clan player like myself can level the playing field is by having a gang of 2 - 3 players myself and collude just enough to create certain market outcomes without crossing over into official collusion territory.
Not what happened, I do not collaborate. I do not know navii and only ran into him by chance.
Navii and I briefly spoke in game. If I recall, he was playing Tyr techer, and my demo techer was beating him(and everyone else) in land. He jokingly told me to slow down.
I explained to him my understanding of DRs, and lamented the price of tech, saying I needed it higher. I did not tell him when, which techs, what price, or otherwise suggest he should or could participate. In fact, had he joined it would have hurt my margins. I had to periodically rotate out of techs just to stay ahead of people chasing the prices I created for myself.
As a demo, playing the market is expected. Saying I am going to do so is like saying you're going to click the cash button as a casher. I spent billions buying tech (and food and oil) to floor prices.
Additionally, the relatively few techer bots, and high number of casher bots probably contributed to tech prices as much as anything I did.
You ARE trying to take away from my finish, which I was extremely excited about, by tarnishing it with suggestions of collusion, and have done so since the beginning of this thread. Instead of fluffting on me you should try talking to me.
