every year, we have more people learning what NOTN is and how much of a money-maker it is. we also get more players registering every year, older players who return just for NOTN, and multiaccounters. every year we get a bigger supply of strange chests from the ever-growing active playerbase, who are rushing to make money while the chests are newly reintroduced to the ecosystem and it's effectively just going to keep happening every year unless chest drop percentage is adjusted, which would piss off the playerbase that already floods the forum and anon blogs with 'did they change the drop rate or am i unlucky :c' when things haven't changed.
each year, the spread of NOTN strategies to make the most from it reaches wider and the ideas become more refined. the clobber build that makes grinding safer and nearly never-ending just hit greater visibility, so people can grind longer with less annoyance of having to restart and less need for the insanely expensive eliminate that otherwise would make coli hard for new players to get in on. it can be as 'weird' as you want to think it is, but logically, we had a perfect storm this year FOR this to happen.
tl;dr: not enough people are buying to outpace the undercutting caused by the usual uptick in sitewide grinding for chests, on top of more accessible coli builds becoming better known.
Plus eggs have been worth less and less each year. Noc eggs went for 300g a few years ago, and I think the average price this year was 230g. The market is down year-round, so the chest price today is a predictable consequence.
Pretty sure that both chest and egg price drops are the same - the more people hear how it's "totally easy money", the less money there actually is in them. Like, look at G1 prices, they aren't too fodder-y, which I'd attribute to fewer people hatching their eggs, thus making fewer G1s and saturating the egg side of the market.
Egg drop odds are the same-ish 8-10% they were for the last few years.
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Re: to the people tanking the chest prices
(Anonymous) 2024-12-24 01:54 am (UTC)(link)each year, the spread of NOTN strategies to make the most from it reaches wider and the ideas become more refined. the clobber build that makes grinding safer and nearly never-ending just hit greater visibility, so people can grind longer with less annoyance of having to restart and less need for the insanely expensive eliminate that otherwise would make coli hard for new players to get in on. it can be as 'weird' as you want to think it is, but logically, we had a perfect storm this year FOR this to happen.
tl;dr: not enough people are buying to outpace the undercutting caused by the usual uptick in sitewide grinding for chests, on top of more accessible coli builds becoming better known.
Re: to the people tanking the chest prices
(Anonymous) 2024-12-24 08:18 am (UTC)(link)Re: to the people tanking the chest prices
(Anonymous) 2024-12-24 11:12 am (UTC)(link)Re: to the people tanking the chest prices
(Anonymous) 2024-12-24 11:54 am (UTC)(link)Egg drop odds are the same-ish 8-10% they were for the last few years.