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[brin_bellway]

I and my 149 stacks† of junk Baldwin transmutations are *very* curious to see how the market shakes out after this.

(formerly Red Goo was 10x the price of Orange Goo, Purple Sludge 25x the price of Red Sludge, and Purple Sludge 6x the price of *Blue* Sludge, just to name a couple)

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I wonder what the knock-on effects will be on intermediaries and brewed scrolls. Once the site comes out of maintenance I'll check the current prices and make my decision then, but I might end up just avoiding the Baldwin market entirely for a week or two until it settles: I don't have a good sense of whether selling into the hype would be a good idea here.

(Which would be a bit annoying as Baldwin stuff is one (several, really: I do the whole supply chain) of my primary areas, but hey, there are still other markets to work.)

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†"Stack" = 99 items

Comments

[redsixwing]

That's definitely going to be interesting. My primary way to make gems is by selling Baldwin goodies based on whatever's needed for events - I save up for three weeks, blow out during festivals, repeat.

So far, the spike in black and white slime prices has actually been great for me.

[brin_bellway]

I've decided on a compromise: I'm not going to try and sell off my stockpiles just yet, but I will tentatively start transmuting Purple Goo into Red Goo and selling the results. If selling them doesn't work out, I can always just keep them and use them to make reinforced beakers: I go through a lot of those.

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>>I save up for three weeks, blow out during festivals, repeat.<<

I've spent so much time on hiatus in the years since they stopped permanently retiring festival items that I still haven't really gotten a good sense of how to make money off a modern-day elemental festival. I might play around with that if I find the time, but OTOH my current merchanting efforts are working pretty well for me as-is and are often enough to keep me occupied.

[redsixwing]

That works!

I'm being silly by matching the market price on one of those items: the one it brews to is selling for more than half the ticket of the item itself, so I could make more by splitting them and selling them that way.

That said, I've had dozens of the things just /sitting/ for months, and it's really nice to make a decent chunk of gems today. I won't blow my whole stockpile out, but I'll at least grab a share of the spike in interest.

>>OTOH my current merchanting efforts are working pretty well for me as-is and are often enough to keep me occupied.<<

If you're having fun with it, that's the part that matters!

I have no real interest in optimizing my pixel-dragon currency trading, but it's been a fun hands-on lesson in economics. *laugh*