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I've said my piece on this a number of times before, and I think there will always be some contention with my perspective. I don't really feel like going over it again, but I will raise one point I think is useful/valid.

A lot of us players are hoarders by nature. I've amassed a lot of my own commodities that I largely keep in holding to make sure I always have enough. I sincerely doubt I am alone on this. If the economy is tuned and rebalanced so that no one can ever comfortably hold away a few thousand of each commodity without destroying the market, then imo the market's been poorly designed.

When considering commodity scarcity, it'd be way better to just look at city/commune public holdings than private holdings. This always is a much, much better gauge of the perceived scarcity/value of commodities within that given org than whatever you might learn from peeking into everyone's rift and adding it all together.

Lawrence said:

I can not express my frustration enough with trying to reach someone who is visible and sitting on prime over the span of an hour. Turn your gem on or sit in a manse if you're not actually playing the game.

Could be they just didn't want to respond.

As a note to some of Aeldra's answers.

212. Piss off an entire org's Pantheon so much that they all hit you with 30 day True Disfavors on top of being maggotted/cursed with adulation. >.>

Influencing of Divine Mobs and One Problem

This is absolutely a minor problem, but it bothered me for probably over a real life year, and that problem was

When Tonatiuh influences a moth, it is worth 1617, but when I, Shulamit, influence a moth, it is worth 1441.

It wasn't having a divine tattoo. We both have divine tattoos. Was it because my divine tattoo was covered? I influenced the moths naked. No change. They probably also didn't care about the nakedness.

“You don't have a divine mark!” I hear you cry. Lies! I have that. We both do.

“Maybe he chugs poteens?” No, and when he did drink a poteen and get the offerings bonus, it was worth even more (but it wears off before you can get all the moths, as there are 109 moths).

So we tried to figure it out and couldn't for a long time. Then moths steal Mysrai's ikons and so a few more people are influencing. Notably Gurashi and Ixchilgal join in much more often!

And Gurashi's influences are worth 1441, but Ixchilgal's are 1617. How? This surely doesn't make sense.

After goin over a few options like “artifacts” I give up for a bit, and then Tonatiuh, Beloved Tonatiuh goes “maybe being in a cult gives more essence”

Not using True Sermon in veneration, which we tried and all it does is make them worth more esteem, so honestly not very impressive.. Simply being in a cult could do it. So how to test, other than knowing Ixchilgal and Tonatiuh are in a cult and Gurashi and Shulamit are not?

Beg two more people to help for more datapoints! So I got Xisiro (not in a cult) and Alary (in a cult) to test and...Xisiro was worth 1441 and Alary 1617.

At this point, I'm at 95 percent certain just being in a cult gives a boost (in this case, around nine percent more) This is mentioned nowhere I can see, and bothered the shit out of me. I'll be at 100 percent on one of two things: Shulamit becomes a cult and her essence changes, or we somehow pressgang Xisiro into Ixchilgal's cult and test again.

What is this post for? I don't know, so you all see my Sciencing or something. I'm proud of myself, thank! I was also unsure where to post, so general seemed good.