Several players have asked about or complained about prices falling for troops and some other resources in the market. Some have stated that there appears to have been some change in the game, which affects prices or enables lower prices. The only change was that which was requested in response to a problem RBA had in early December with autobuying of troops, and the decision was made as a result of that December round mistake and problem to set autobuying of troops at the same prices as all other resources. Thus, price of troops is set by market forces of supply and demand.

There are two forces influencing troop pricing negatively: supply and demand.

Supply - the price of silicon and gold are being held artificially low, so many players are seeking to sell troops to purchase these resources, since it does not make sense to produce these resources unless the price of troops is below 50. Thus, many players are selling more and more troops in order to purchase market subsidied gold and silicon. I have agreed to no changes in the game, so the price of these resources is fixed at a maximum price of 50 for each. Thus, production is minimal, and comsumption of these resources remains strong (there has been a very large amount of gold and silicon purchased on the market at 50 price per unit, and this results in a drain on available credits in the market to purchase other resources, so there is excess supply of people wanting to sell troops to get credits to buy silicon and gold).

Demand - the number of players who have purchased credits in the game has declined since the attacks by several players on anyone buying credits as being unfair competition or somehow less honorable than playing without buying credits. Several players who have consistently purchased credits each month have decided to no longer purchase any credits in the game, and many of the players who had occasionally purchased credits have not bought any recently. This has resulted in lower demand for resources being sold by other players, so prices naturally fall as demand from players having credits is lower due to less credits being purchased.

As with all markets, where prices are set by supply and demand, there will be a point of equilibrium at which more players will decide to purchase credits because troops and other resources are cheap enough to be viewed as a bargain which is too cheap to resist. I do not know where that price is, but at below 50 per troop, some of the troop supply will start to shift to making silicon or gold, which will reduce troop supply, so I doubt the price will fall a lot below 50 price per unit or we will have less gold and silicon purchased at 50 and more produced on planets. Thus, the artificial pricing for gold and silicon effectively have created a natural point at which troops pricing will probably now move towards, and it is likely that troops will not go much below a 49 credits per 100,000 troops pricing level.

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Several players? Could we know them names?

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"Demand - the number of players who have purchased credits in the game has declined since the attacks by several players on anyone buying credits as being unfair competition or somehow less honorable than playing without buying credits. "

I love that

People buy POINTS. It is unfair and it is unhounourable. And those who buy points understand that . Therefore they hide it and even lie.

[Can't be bothered to track down the logical fallacies in that argument, but on top of that the premises are in doubt, making it both invalid and unsound.]

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I will defeat you. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, i'll be waiting.

as soon as I can open paypal account.... I'll be buying.
Not affraid of your words.

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

I only know what I read on the internet.

Then i'll need to cut your resources in other ways!

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I will defeat you. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, i'll be waiting.

yes Now thats the spirit!

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

I only know what I read on the internet.

when i started playing over 2 years ago you could buy credits zigy turned it off as he could not make money it had nothing to do with being fair

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Chaos in da Galaxy Clan leader I am now asking that eny vet that has bin a member of CIDG and would like to come back to the clan and take CiDG to a level never seen befor

Well since New Players missions will be done soon
I want Prof to spend as much money marketing SL has possible
We NEED new players, so few of us active ones left now

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Go For It.

I agree Hope.... We desperatly NEED new players.... Mabye there should be an update on the Graphics aswell, so that people who have been here before can see that the game IS changing just from a first glance...

But yeah new marketing would be great I think. Also over in OGame they kinda make a big thing about a clan website. Thats why they are so popular, because there are loads of other clan sites out there. In reality there is only www.indagalaxy.co.uk that is out there... Mabye if there was another one then there would be competition and then there will be more search results for SL aswell. I am the only person that does updates to idG.co.uk.. so that makes it slow, plus I have other things going on in my life at the moment that are DEMANDING my attention. But still if another clan was to make a rival site then the community would GROW.... In other word SL should OPENLY SUPPORT idG.co.uk and any other site that appears.

If we can get the SL banner around to other places of interest then that will help bring people in. Also there are plenty of new gaming sites that list online games... Im pretty sure SL hasnt been submitted to them yet.

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The home of SL Satellite and other great tutorials!

i would make a site for the swarm if i could find a host that i could actually afford and was a decent host

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Can use your own computer, and a dynamic DNS service. Plenty of free servers, even for windows, if you don't want to mess with Apache.

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