Why do mages charge 4gp per root?

[son]

Is this accurate? Alcs only charge 3. I remember they all charged 3 at OSI.

[venox]

those alchemists are cheap hookers.

[Fwerp]

The default price was 3, but prices of 4 and 5 were not uncommon depending on the vendor's stock (I am not sure what calculations were done to determine this, but i recall buying 100 or so root at 4 per at times).

[Freeza]

The default price was 3, but prices of 4 and 5 were not uncommon depending on the vendor's stock (I am not sure what calculations were done to determine this, but i recall buying 100 or so root at 4 per at times).

I am seeing 4 per root when they have 500+ in stock - that does not make sense.

[Faust]

I am not quite sure how it's calculated but on OSI if someone were to buy an amount to a certain extent it would charge more for the rest after that purchase. For example, let's say someone bought 500 root while it was at 999. The amount of the rest will increase to 4gp, etc... This isn't exact numbers of course since I don't know the formula but in a sense that is how it works.

[mungrin]

This is exactly how i remember it.

[Eaglestaff]

I remember mandrake root was never lower than 4 and sometimes at 6 on OSI, bloodmoss was usually between 6-8 and on rare occasions 5. When I saw bloodmoss at 5 I would buy the whole stack. Black pearl is way cheap here, on OSI it was never lower than 6 and often as high as 9 gold per. If you read the manual you can find some interesting factors that go into the prices of any item and it isn't just how many the vendor has in stock. The manual says it accounts for macro economic factors like supply and demand. How much demand there is will drive up the costs. If something is selling prices will rise for hotter items. Given that the OSI economy was calibrated for a much larger playerbase one might deduce that this is why things are so cheap here and on most freeshards. It also explains why black pearl is the most expensive since its used more than any other reg.

[Bigoud]

i agree with eaglestaff

[Freeza]

I remember mandrake root was never lower than 4 and sometimes at 6 on OSI, bloodmoss was usually between 6-8 and on rare occasions 5. When I saw bloodmoss at 5 I would buy the whole stack. Black pearl is way cheap here, on OSI it was never lower than 6 and often as high as 9 gold per. Although if you read the manual you can find some interesting factors that go into the prices of any item and it isn't just how many the vendor has in stock. The manual says it accounts for macro economic factors like supply and demand. How much demand there is will drive up the costs. If something is selling prices will rise for hotter items. Given that the OSI economy was calibrated for a much larger playerbase one might deduce that this is why things are so cheap here and on most freeshards. It also explains why black pearl is the most expensive since its used more than any other reg.

I believe mandrake root is the most used of the regents...

[son]

Any chance we might strive for acuracy on this? Might make regs and reg vendors way more valuable.

[Daolin]

Ehh, the idea of the vendors giving supply and demand was just this: If a vendor had 999 root for 3gp, and person could buy 199 leaving 800. Now, the demand may boost that price to 4gp for the next person. This is why it used to be so important to buy out a merchant. It was kind of "jerkish" to buy just a little, because it screws the next guy over.

Currently on the server, the root is priced for 4gp no matter what for these mages. It has nothing to do with this previous vendor system. This is definitely not accurate.

[Derrick]

The OSI NPC Vendor economic system was extremely complex. We've been getting closer to it, but we're not quite there yet. Currently the amount on hand has no effect on the vendor sale prices, they are fixed. It's planned to further enhance and correct this system in the future.

[Hicha]

Join the mages guild, then you're guaranteed 3g per root, 4g per black pearl.