With new portal networks in the mix with the already established portal networks Plus the many players portals it is a safe bet pressure on the supply of oort has increased significantly while the hunting groups supplying it are not growing by any significant amount.
Inevitably one or more of the networks are Doomed to Fail as costs increase.
In you Guesstimate how high do you see rough oort going to??
I am guessing 550 coins as a conservative value.
What do You think?
I think we have already been buying oort. The demain should not increase much. If so Orrian will start leading hunts again.
Whats the average price of oort these days, only been back a week or so
At the moment decent prices at 280 - 300
Based on my perspective, hunts have grown a lot… 40+ on a hunt is becoming the norm. Also, it seems like there are more groups hosting lately. That’s what I’ve noticed anyway… I think in the coming weeks it might go up a bit because more people will be Gleambow hunting… with it only being on select planets though, it could go either way here soon.
I last hunt I went to there was like 47 people, with more new players there going to be more people hunting, eventually more hunting groups will pop up
It seems that oort prices keep growing because the guilds that rely on buying oort increase the price a little higher so that the Oort sellers go to them for coin, but it’s becomes more expensive for those same guilds so oort prices will stop growing, at this point smaller guilds can’t even afford to buy oort for there portals, it’s to expensive.
I estimate that it would get to about 550-1250 before stopping completely. If a lot is bought then it leads to a sudden spike in the price. Now who is responsible for such a thing?
I know it’s been a few weeks. But last time I sold any it was for 350c. As I also use it myself I don’t think I’d ever sell it for less.
Hand trade or shop?
Myself and many near by request baskets have been at 280 for months. Always stock up. Decent amount of hunts lately. Price may go down even.
I think problem is not hunting itself and people not participating… as gina said theres lots of people hunting.
But the question is are those hunters right hunters? I mean i bet if some portal owners just rely on someone selling them their oort they are gonna get deleted in the long run.
2nd question is why should people sell their oort? Theres no shard baskets usually just stone ones.
I think many portal owner trip into this… now that we have new players here they like to get exp for the oort -> shard
Actually your right we just talked about adding a shard basket today (to buy not donate). No reason why you wouldnt want the xp…
I have a shop on Raxxa that I sell Oort shards from. My rate is 20c each, which is quite fair.
I suspect Chaos is loading the basket at 20-22c. We’ll try it and see how it goes. Thanks for poking the idea!
I think generally the idea at least in my mind why people have stone baskets only is that after hunt people can sell their stones right away to the basket.
Ofc the exp is nice too but i think thats the main reason? Im just guessing as i havent rly kept any networks
Hand trade
Debatable.
It’s been steady ish around 280-300 lately. I’m sure it will go up over gleambow.
How can people help prevent price rises over gleambow? Try to get that two week’s oort now, so you don’t have to pay inflated prices then.
The more people that plan ahead, the smaller a price rise we will see.
I have no objection to buying shards. As @buugi pointed out though, many just want to dump their junk straight after a hunt.
Used all my inventory coins yesterday to oort stones. Maybe oort won’t be so scarce like earlier racing times but now I don’t need to worry for while 
i think that gathering spark isnt a problem for the guild. its far easyer to get and i suppose thats the reason why you dont see coal or fuel baskets next to the oort basket 
that lowers the price cost. otherwhise you pay for the fuel too
The raise of networks will have a great effect on the oort prices. How more networks… how more portals there are. I mean the shopowners prefer to connect with most populair places so their expect to lore people in. So besides the cost of the networks themself, the shopowners see a slight increase of oort useage too. unless they dont connect or close an other portal.
sometimes i would like to know to how many people go true your portal. But i think that will play into a monopoly of networks too…