Spark value

[Nightstar]

@molav

Wouldn’t it be like a gold rush, an economy spike or something?

It’s inflation. Printing more money without adding tangible value to the economy is inflation. If we had hard stats we could determine if it’s hyperinflation but after months of gleam balling it’s probably not.

As opposed to commerce or production, it’s devaluation of existing coins.

TBF I don’t think a couple days of this is a crisis, some of these posts are really inflammatory. However, if it goes on it will create quite an imbalance.

I’m not sure how much affect the dumping of all the spark people have stockpiled in various forms will have in the short term.

[Peyago]

It would be if it wasn’t for the fact we already have millions of spark saved up. Its more like finding out everyone has millions in their bank accounts. it changes the perception of what things are worth. Why farm bitter beans when they are only worth 80c each? You can swing a hammer for 10 minutes and make more than you would surface gathering in an hour.

[Coolpants]

@Nightstar

The dullness of farming aside if you have some full generators around you might want to capture the moment before they correct this.

That was the very first thing I did, lol. Just in case.

[Peyago]

I think it is only a problem if it lasts long enough for the heavy miners to burn up their heavy compact coal storage. I think it will get fixed before then.

[Cuetzpalomitl]

What?

10 things

[Coolpants]

Which what?

[Cuetzpalomitl]

The one that explains the thing

[Cuetzpalomitl]

Lol what did you do just in case? And in case of what

[Coolpants]

I minted all my workshop extra spark
In case they hotfix before I wake up tomorrow

[Sujimichi88]

@Peyago

The biggest difference is where the money is coming from. With mining all the money is coming from other players, with the minter it is just poofed into existence.

This. 100 times this. Should be a pinned post.

[krasniy]

This will be fixed promptly tomorrow by the Devs… relax everyone!

[bucfanpaka]

After thinking about this a bit more, even if the fix is a bit slow in coming, if any of the devs come on and confirm this was a mistake or not the intended result, I’ll respect that and not even load coal onto my stands to try to take advantage while before patched. Slept a bit, going to go mining now… but I’ll hold off on doing anything with the coal or anything related to this for about six hours or so, see if anything is said or done first.

[Sujimichi88]

Agreed. A simple “Yes this will be fixed” or “this is intended, new economy ahoy” would be great!

The uncertainty is a big part of the panic right now.

[majorvex]

@Sujimichi88

or “this is intended

If this is the case, I am going to go buy a bunch of hammers and brews and do lots of mining for once lol. I usually avoid mining, but…maybe not anymore When I sell my spark, I can go buy lots more things

[Gorillastomp]

@Crete

If only this were true…

Resource seams have more health than rock. So all you need to do is forge a bomb with the damage above the rock health, but juuuuust below the health of a seam.

You bet if bomb mining was still working i would do it. It’s the thing i liked the most back then. Like others said it got nerfed where it breaks seams before the rest.

[Fante]

[Soju-VB]

the sky is falling… the sky is falling…

[scrufola]

@Nightstar

I’d like to point to the hundreds of posts in the last three months condemning gleam farming, which was more work for less coin.

But gleam farming showers you in XP, peat does not. And XP is cubits. With that they force us decide if we primarily want XP or coins instead of having a single activity that rules them all.

[Mayumichi]

If you mint the refined gleam (like it’s atm done) is it really that much more xp than farming and compacting the peat?

[scrufola]

Mining gleam rewards more XP than digging peat. I think gleam has the XP of a node, not a block.