Serious The Laws of Supply and Demand after massacres.

[wack]

Alright dingos, here's a lesson on supply and demand, and this is primarily due to the 60+ MP7s that have now entered the rebel economy :smiley: so hopefully this will teach the CP leads why allowing 80 or so CPs to be slaughtered is rather autistic in terms of buttraping an economy.

So the laws of supply and demand state that as supply goes up, sellers are able to lower their prices due to scarcity being lessened. I'll illustrate it to you in my photo-shopped graphs.

Here we have the (estimated, I have no idea nor give a fuck what the actual price of an MP7 and/or USP is) graph showing the price BEFORE supply went up. The red line represents demand (which really doesn't matter in this context), and the blue line represents supply. Where the two lines connect, is the current price. Now as supply increases, the line shifts to the right. That doesn't mean it gets smaller, the line literally SHIFTS to the right. Let me show you.

As you can see if you have eyes, the price went down about 150 tokens on the graph, theoretically, it probably went down further. My point is, if you don't have the manpower to use as a plan B when all the CPs are ass raped, then don't fucking send them in. And no, not if all the CPs get assraped, but when they do. Because the moment we go into the rebel pipe area, its like D-Day but we have no wiggle room, and all of the CPs including me are autistic. The only reason I like seeing this:

Is because I know "Awh fuck yeah on my rebel now if I ever need an MP7 it's going to be cheaper than it was before!" So please, if you didn't use your eyes and look at the graphs illustrated above, send us in again, because I too like cheaper prices :grinning:

I would like to thank my economics teacher for educating me. I never thought I'd be using this shit, and now I am using it on a roleplaying forum. what the fuck is my life

 

[wack]

I'd like to make a note as I was going to mention this but forgot to. Now that there are more guns, and theoretically lower prices, this results in more people able to buy guns, which means more armed people, which means an increased potential for more people to decide "kk today gonna shotcop lmao CPs suck anyways time to rack in the fucking CASH baby"

 

[Jimbo]

i just learned this in school thank you mr lee i knew that would be useful

 

[wack]

i just learned this in school thank you mr lee i knew that would be useful

Uhm excuse me sir this is a SERIOUS thread thank you and G O O D B Y E

 

[PilotBland]

headcops haven't been doing very wise things recently no

 

[Mt3c1]

Guns are cheaper means I can shoot cops more yay.

 

[wack]

headcops haven't been doing very wise things recently no

That was the point I was trying to make lol

 

[Cookie!]

i just learned this in school thank you mr lee i knew that would be useful

holy shit my economics teacher is called mr lee too

 

[wack]

I’d like to make a note that my estimation was way off, MP7s are now 2k which is what a USP used to be...

 

[Deleted member 243]

I’d like to make a note that my estimation was way off, MP7s are now 2k which is what a USP used to be...

WHAT NO

NO

IT'S LEMONPUNCH'S ECONOMY SHAMBLING OUT OF IT'S GRAVE

FUCK

 

[wack]

WHAT NO

NO

IT'S LEMONPUNCH'S ECONOMY SHAMBLING OUT OF IT'S GRAVE

FUCK

I want more shotcops to happen now plz lower prices :)

 

['77 East]

WHAT NO

NO

IT'S LEMONPUNCH'S ECONOMY SHAMBLING OUT OF IT'S GRAVE

FUCK

this is what happens when crafters can't make weapons because bmd's are inactive and won't sell (because they all have medical flags now) and there is no other viable source of metal

 

[wack]

this is what happens when crafters can't make weapons because bmd's are inactive and won't sell (because they all have medical flags now) and there is no other viable source of metal

True.

 

[Deleted member 243]

this is what happens when crafters can't make weapons because bmd's are inactive and won't sell (because they all have medical flags now) and there is no other viable source of metal

I tried getting up a scrapyard that incorperated citizens to bring materials in

Never got my app accepted though

 

['77 East]

I tried getting up a scrapyard that incorperated citizens to bring materials in

Never got my app accepted though

Auth requirements / time
+ citizens never come to below ground in any reasonable qualities
+ citizens prefer to just give their materials to the ration dumpster
+ c.w.u reforms that have fucked over certain people
+ bmd reforms that have fucked over all the crafters
+ bmds that are inactive
+ bmds who seem to only sell medicine like a crack dealer
+ luck of the draw with finding broken weapons
+ crafting prices that fucking suck and need to be raised
+ no viable sources of certain materials which means that crafters have to deny some people their services, thus indirectly punishing the playerbase because making armour scraps isn't profitable anymore among with certain services yet everyone needs them but can't get them because there is no viable source of certain materials

= this shitstorm of a situation

 

[Twar]

this is what happens when crafters can't make weapons because bmd's are inactive and won't sell (because they all have medical flags now) and there is no other viable source of metal

Lol what are you chatting mate

If you're gonna chat shit about BMDs tag me, alright?

v = 6
d = 7
P = 4

Is the list of basic flag holders, P is medical, d is essential, v is food

Also, BMDs aren't inactive as I see what they're buying, and you bulk buying crafting materials isn't stopping, is it?

 

[Powley]

@77east

how does any of this have to do with crafters

 

[Twar]

@77east

how does any of this have to do with crafters

because if they can't get broken guns to make guns it's BMDs fault

because if they can't buy backpack shipments for 100 tokens it's BMDs fault

because if a BMD isn't on at the exact moment they want it it's BMDs fault


Fuck now I know how UM feels

 

['77 East]

Lol what are you chatting mate

If you're gonna chat shit about BMDs tag me, alright?

v = 6
d = 7
P = 4

Is the list of basic flag holders, P is medical, d is essential, v is food

Also, BMDs aren't inactive as I see what they're buying, and you bulk buying crafting materials isn't stopping, is it?

I've tried to bulk-buy for about a week. It's only been today that I've even been able to find a dealer who was able to supply what I needed, and that doesn't count the other who literally died thirty minutes after I was able to source him.

The ones who are actually active like @STUCK IN A CAKE can't supply me with what I need, and the whole Metro suffers as a result.

@77east

how does any of this have to do with crafters

no supply for other weaponry outside of existing stocks

heavy supply for Union weapons, little demand outside of a few entrepreneurs

the current situation

because if they can't get broken guns to make guns it's BMDs fault

because if they can't buy backpack shipments for 100 tokens it's BMDs fault

because if a BMD isn't on at the exact moment they want it it's BMDs fault


Fuck now I know how UM feels

I don't care about pricing, Twar.

What I have issue with is your prior decision to restrict our supply at a time when we had (and still do not have) a viable alternative for certain materials. I wouldn't mind paying half of my earned wages to get them, but even trying to find a Dealer that can supply me is rather hard, especially given the current circumstances.

I've had forty people yell about getting Armour scraps up and down the past two days. Guess who couldn't supply them because there was no BMD's around that could service me during the skirmishes outside of one, even ignoring the entire week when I could not find one.

The only dealer I found over the two days who had what I needed was 'Marco', who promptly turned up dead thirty minutes after I inquired with him.

I had to get another one today purely to get what I needed in.

Where else am I supposed to source metal from in a VIABLE quantity, and giving me 'the citizens' or the 'CWU' isn't an answer as the former never appear in numbers to make a dent, and the latter are clearly unavailable thanks to OOC dilemmas. I've had three of my associates stop using their services purely because those on cannot satisfy the demand, and it's only going to get worse as this situation gets worse.

@Redhunter @Gaben @Kraiyick I believe the three of you need to chime in here?

 

[Redhunter]

v = 6
d = 7
P = 4

numbers don't mean shit when every fucking crafter is complaning how they can't find any BMDs to actually let us get supplies.