Sad state of the economy (a farmer's rant)

[Milan Lame Man]

Hello all,

So I wanted Kelvin and Vixen eggs.
After running Frostir and Grimnr for some hours, looting 1 locked from mobs and nothing else, I have realized that it's better to run Jarl or KM3 and buy from CS.
For me, this kind of kills the game. I don't want to run the same map for months to buy some imaginary assets I don't need anyway for that one map. I want to run different and all maps, and be good at it. But with no loot and high costs in pots, it makes no sense.

I do realize that changing egg drop rate does nothing since the price would simply adjust but the relation CS>farming would stay.
I do realize that STS wants to keep Locked drop rate high because every crate that drops means 15 plat spent sooner or later.
It really is the low demand that sets a low price.

Anyway... Are you happy with this? Do you see any way to make farming unpopular items worth the time spent?

When essences arrived into Arlor, I thought "Cool, now whatever I do, I get essence -> I get gems -> I get gold". With gem prices so low now, it's no longer true. I can't think of anything else that would work.