Just wanted to put this out there, before ppl go crazy asking absurd amounts for spark, or even worse, ppl actually wasting theyr money on spark.
Cost/1000 spark CRAFTED → this means how much it would cost if you would buy the prime materials, like for ex, for compacted hard coal, you would buy the hard coal, compact it yourself (using spark) and then burn it to make spark.
I know the time to get the spark in your generator is much faster, but paying more than 20c/1000 spark (0.02c/spark) seems unreasonable. I said 0.02 because of the burn speed, otherwise I would not go over 0.01c.
Also if anybody wants to get 1 milion c from minting spark, here is a list of materials and time needed (no buffs, one generator)
– All prices are calculated by medium buy/sell prices from butt
I think most who go into the spark trade would be using compact peat due to the cost and regen farm capabilities. It doesn’t seem cost effective to use anything else.
I didn’t see compact peat on the list… but I think for a crafter that’s the best way to go about it. Takes a bit more effort to tend the spark generators… but worth it from a cost perspective.
I didn’t take that into consideration because it take a lot to gather, it breaks the generators faster than anything else, and I don’t want to botter with it. But if this means I can get my spark cheaper than 0.1 (not possible in shops) or even at 0.1, great, I’m all for it. I do dig a lot and get a lot of coal, but I still need more for the generators, so I do buy it some times. So I would deffenetly buy spark if the price is ok. Other option would be to make the coal more expensive in order to increase the value of spark, but from what I see in this game, prices never go up (at least not by much). But who knows…
I harvest spark in all forms, but primarily trunk and coal, with peat as a sort of afterthought.
When I have to buy spark I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than 1c/100 spark (0.01/spark), sometimes less. It’s not always plentiful at this price but it’s usually available.
This price would be 1500c per compact hard coal or 50c per compact peat.
should be that way or how they presented it, they said we could move spark generator now without losing spark since it drops as an item on ground when the generator is destroyed.
didn’t test it myself but this is how i undersantd it.
Gotta be honest- spark is still worth more than coal. this post doesn’t really help anything lol
I almost feel like OP doesn’t really shop in the market at all for materials.
which would kinda be like a farmer being like " I don’t understand why you’d pay this kinda money for produce."
Also this doesn’t even begin to hit on the fact that spark will almost instantly convert inside your spark generator- with barely damaging your machine. Meanwhile I can stick almost a million spark in my generator and have it done in less than a minute. Compact Coal still has it’s place for cooking but at this point spark has taken over as the new prime fuel for generators.
I had some old spark gens hidden behind storage from when I remodeled my work shop, so I just broke 4 of them to see how it would “drop” partial amounts of spark of a whole gen stack as a test
if i had to guess- this is part of the compactness update.
How do you remove someones beacon that was in violation of TOS?
You’d have to be able to completely pull everything in those plots and what if that person had millions of spark? its just a logical addition to everything else being added into the game.
This item was loading in 1s for most of the time it was in the test cycle. Then in the last update they raised the conversion time to 8s.
This means it will take 2 hours to load a stack in a single generator, even though it was already ‘converted to spark’ by yourself or another player. That’s what I’m talking about.
I’ve been following the updates the logic for adding the spark item seems fine to me and some better way to homogenize and transfer spark has been requested many times.
