anonrising | 58. How many glasses has Orca had?

I can't find the original comment where I whined about this (was the other coli revamp thread screened or am I just missing it?), but I feel the need to whine again. In principle, I am happy that more people can access the coli because of the rewrite. But selfishly, in practice, I hate what it is doing to fodder prices. At about 15 minutes after rollover, already there are only a few bonus dragons under 9k (and not by much!), and the cheapest non-bonus adults are starving at 7950 and 8k. (Followed by non-starving dragons at 8k, but still, awful.) I'm going to have to buy fodder breeders and breed my own fodder, I guess, as these prices are ridiculous and I am making much less profit than I was before the revamp.

da

a couple years ago 8-9k was the norm for fodder prices (dragons were already plentiful but it was the old color wheel), i feel like it's possible to afford training higher given new coli is faster

...for now, though. if prices keep going up, it will force everyone to start breeding and consequently put a soft "cap" on optimal profits from exalting. sigh

AYRT
I was around then, and yes, fodder did get up over 8k, but I seem to remember that generally it was 7-8k, and the higher prices were usually when a couple of flights were pushing or flights pushed a week after someone else pushed. And I whined to a friend during those instances, but I was able to train level 25s to sell for profit when fodder wasn't profitable to exalt. And now, with the price of eliminate and the price of level 25s, that is no longer a viable option.

And, yeah, this coli is faster, but not that much faster. I used to train to level 5, and level in bulk, which took about a minute and fifteen seconds per dragon. Now I have to train to level 7 to get the same amount of profit. I've not done official time trials yet, but the small trial I did to level 6 immediately after the revamp first was released took me about a minute and fifty seconds to get to 6. Obviously level 7 takes longer than that. So I'm about doubling the time it takes for the same amount of profit.

Maybe open registration will flood the site with dragons and the prices will go back down. As even breeding my own fodder will only get me an average of like three dragons a day, assuming five nests in constant use, one hatching each day.

And, yeah, I know this is petty and I should just be happy for all of the people who can use the coli now who couldn't before.

DA
I've also been around a while, and I seem to recall 7000-7500 being the norm back in the day. So I think the current price is pretty high even compared to how it was.

It seems to me that this is just a temporary bump though, driven by the new coli. Once that novelty wears off, prices should go back down eventually, like in a few weeks or so. The next few days will definitely be crazy, with that exp boost that starts on the 16th. Expect prices to go up before they go down. But I'm confident they will go down in the end.

AYRT
That's what I remember too. So at least I'm not alone with that.

I hope so. I'm thinking that it might be more permanent, though. With a lot of new people who are now willing to use the coli. I will hope, though.

58. How many glasses has Orca had?

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