Evil Paka won this round. 
Of course, had to break it into smaller stacks, but just to show here.
… Actually, I won’t keep doing this. I think rather, I’ll switch to coal mining for a bit, sell that, get some other stuff in the process. 
But I couldn’t resist the temptation to at least try it!!
In any case, I suspect we’re like a bunch of teenagers throwing a wild party while the parental units are away… and Papa Oort is about to return home early and break this thing up. 
I’ve been against gleam mining from the start. I’m against this price of spark. But if i don’t liquidate my spark now, i am going to fall behind in the economy.
I’m sure this will be hotfixed though.
This is the trouble with this being short term. Having calculated I have 9.3m coin worth of spark on hand, I feel sort of silly for not tearing it out and selling it.
At the same time, there’s no way I want to rebuild my generator towers in 5 different shops since I tend to build large, interwoven setups.
Ah well. Still all my other activities are halted while this (hopefully short) window exists.
As you say it’s a nearly overwhelming feeling of “Falling behind” while you can guess that hundreds of millions of coins will be generated even if this only lasts 24 - 36 hours.
May have already missed half the window.
Yeah, nail meet hammer. I still have a full day’s work ahead of me too, before i can do anything. The faster this gets patched the better, but i’d be a bit annoyed if others are running around with 10’s of millions of coins while i don’t get to convert my spark 
That’s one boring ass way to play a game. I’m pretty sure the fad will be short and few people will be doing this more then just occasionally.
Yup yup, there isn’t much of an economy game after a while.
I don’t think you’re understanding the scale of this. Gleam minting was an issue. But people didn’t have millions upon millions of gleam in their storage. You’re right, like gleam minting, this is boring. But the price is so absurd (more than 4 times what it sells for normally), that you either mint all your spark now, OR you fall massively behind in the economy.
Gleam doesn’t sell for much. It’s used for some construction, but not really sold en-masse.
Spark is used by EVERYBODY. Every single player uses spark. This means it will affect the price of everything. If I don’t mint my spark now, i will fall behind massively. This is not a fad. The reason essences for example, are usually sold at or below minting price is because it is incredibly tedious to make decent money off of. Spark is worth 10-fold what essences mint for. It is much more efficient.
I think we should be able to farm and process spark much faster than we could turn gleam into coin. Especially if you are chopping wood. No crafting time involved, just spark uptake time. Get two people at it and you have a constant flow of money.
You’ll have to have someone log in to repair your generators every hour or so though 
They don’t have to be attached to anything, I can have it right in my tree farm. Its also very easily expandable.
I’m guessing fixed first thing in the morning, as soon as they can.
I have the same worry as @Sujimichi88 - if I DON’T take advantage, even by getting a bunch of coal up like I said while it is hot, will I fall way behind, inflation cause prices to go through the roof? (Meaning, hammers and such out of reach for me? 
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If this is fixed within a brief time, we’re going to have a few more multi-millionaires but it’s not going to permanently inflate the whole economy. Over time with distribution of the coin via commerce we might see things relax a bit.
IF this goes on for even close to a week it will, IMO, change the game, and seriously alter barriers to entry for newer players over a much longer time.
Sorry but we already know we play the game from totally different perspectives. I think this only effects those that rely heavily on the economy and filtering coin around. For others like me, who have little need of coin it’s just funny to watch this unfold.
A little bit of a ballpark based on previous farming activities, you can mint about 120k worth of spark from **timber in an hour. Plus you can add in the amount of sap and bark you get to your total profits as it sells over time. But its a crazy mint amount for very little processing time.
Very true, if you don’t participate in the larger economy much and are more a solo-player, this won’t affect you. That wasn’t my point though.
This is what my comment was aimed at. Just because you don’t participate, doesn’t mean this is just a fad. The scale of this is too large to be a fad. If this price persists, items across the universe will devalue greatly. Not just spark-generating items. ALL items. So this will effect every single person who participates in the larger economy. Not just the few big fish.
Wait, you can sell spark to the minter? For how much?
Temporary spark gens.
Peat farm portal to the left.
30 compactors behind me.
I’m not tearing this monster apart to mint the 134m spark in it, but if this goes for more than a few hours I won’t be able to resist rebuilding my simpler setups for 100m(ish) spark to mint.
2 - 3 hours of work, tops, for several million coin? I’m in.
EDIT: what those temp gens look like right now:
Just to add emphasis to @Sujimichi88 comments about people with stockpiles.
This is definitely WAY different from the gleam thing.
0.0392 per spark to a fully coiled minter. 0.028 to a non-coiled minter
I’m really curious to see what it does to the economy.
