Diamonds only sell for $2000.

[HighwayStar]

In all other servers they sell for $4000 and that makes it worth doing. For $2000 it's not worth doing.

Right now, Cement and Oil have a higher dollars per minute. Can the diamond selling price be increased to $4000 please?

 

[TinyBigJacko]

The Diamond market is evidently saturated at the moment. Two of our dealers have committed suicide as a result and one left the island completely. Try again from time to time. Markets fluctuate. We like to mix things up from time to time to stop people getting complacent or bored and in a rut...

 

[Price___]

Mate if you could make a post with all the prices for items and prehaps and estimation of future prices that would be great

 

[Wilco]

I will consult the treasury of Altis this weekend and we will get a list up

 

[TinyBigJacko]

Noooo - we can't do that. Two reasons...

1 - advance knowledge of the likely directions of economic indicators, stock prices, commodity markets, and the like, is insider-dealing, and is punishable at law in the strongest possible way. It destabilises markets, causes speculation and currency fluctuations, and ruins the chances of the average citizen to invest in the markets safely. Bankers suck, basically.

2 - it's far too much fucking work, keeping tabs on it all, and writing it down. If commodity prices move at all, they will move randomly, as and when Wilco (or god, or whoever is the most in evidence) decides to frig with the numbers and give you all a shock! Keep it under yer hat mate... bollocks to all this 'advance-planning'... let these buggers experience the thrill of finding that their chopper load of coke is worth shit all, when they speak to the dealer and he offers them a pittance today, because he has tons of it 'round the back' already.

 

[Price___]

For a laugh you guys should severly up the price of drugs and have undercover police in civ clothes at every drug dealer

 

[TinyBigJacko]

Have you been bugging our offices?

 

[Price___]

haha

 

[HighwayStar]

Ok if you're going to nerf one resource to simulate markets rising and falling - then at least have the decency to buff another at the same time.

 

[Price___]

how do you know they havn't ??

 

[TinyBigJacko]

WTF do world commodity markets have to do with 'decency', fella? Did you learn nothing from the banking crash of 2008? "Random Walk", is the watchword, where markets are concerned - at least, assuming the insider-traders aren't bending things...

In all seriousness, any commodity manipulations will generally be done for fun, and for improving everyone's gaming experience. Nobody *wants* to screw you over to the point where you're bored, after all. But stuff will change semi-randomly, and to mix things up a bit. We can't let the druglords win out *all* the time... sometimes the turtle fishers will be king, sometimes the humble salt-miners will find themselves coining it in. Ebb and flow, mix and match. Some days, it's better to just join the rebels or drive around the island looking for cheap thrills. Trouble is, we'll never know which, or what day it is...

 

[Sovereign]

Insider info. Isn't that what the Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine are for? Potentially there could be a prediction listing that is not entirely accurate, if you would like an excuse for resource pricing.