How to fix the market crash and future farming.....
I was thinking about this the past couple of days.... As a result of the egg market crash, the entire economy has collapsed to a certain extent. Remember that egg prices also affect the prices of many other things.
The best loot from locked crates is arcane eggs, and with the recent price decline of eggs, you can see the price of locked crates has collapsed as well -- a couple of weeks ago they were going for 7-8k, now they are 3-4k.
Many chests also contain eggs. For example, Elite Copper and Silver Warchests always had maintained some value due to the possibility of looting a rare Talon egg, which sold for 100k+. Now with Talon Eggs below 10k, I can't imagine who would pay even 200 gold for an Elite Copper or Silver Warchest as there is nothing that can be looted worth anything decent. The same can be said for many other elite and non-elite chests, most of which contain eggs in their loot table, which were the most valuable items that could be looted from them.
As we are just coming off this really fun event, I know most of you have not even thought about farming today, as you are probably "all farmed out" after spending 10 hours per day searching for Egg-Zavier the past week, but soon enough you will realize that there is not much to farm for anymore, except for Elite Underhul. The prices of just about everything else has collapsed.
So here is my proposed fix:
1) Add a new achievement for 100 pets in the stable. This will cause a big increase in demand for all pet eggs. Currently there is no reason to have more than 50 pets in your stable. Nobody uses more than a few pets in their rotation, and the others are just to satisfy APs. If everyone who cares about APs suddenly needs 50 more pets, this will use up many of the excess eggs that were looted during this event, and will help revive prices of rare, epic and legendary pet eggs in general, which will also help restore prices to chests and give us a reason to farm again.
2) This one may be less popular, but new achievements for having 5 mythic pets, and 5 arcane pets in the stable could be added. Yes, this could be seen as "pay to win" since both arcane and mythic pets are purchased with plat, and/or looted from locked crates (which also require plat). However, because this would cause the price of mythic and arcane eggs to go up, it would increase demand for locked crates, which would cause their prices to go back up and help crate farmers.
Remember that the economy of AL is NOT a zero sum game. There are ways to help both the rich plat players AND the poor and middle class farmers at the same time. I believe both of these suggestions would do that.
Any thoughts or comments?