(2011.Sep.09 05:10 PM)MrPapagiorgio Wrote: In my opinion, the price of credits on the market is skyrocketing as an unintended consequence of admin neglect. In the absence of new weapons, drugs, stims, or any other kind of update that players can spend money on, they are spending their AL money on the thing that will best improve their character -- credits for endurance. If people had the opportunity to purchase new things to improve their characters, I'm fairly certain that they would do so. So, in the absence off new things to purchase, look for credit prices to continue to rise.
In addition, another thing that will happen is the value of weapons and armour that people currently own will drop in value, as fewer players means lower demand for these weapons.
These trends should continue until new items are introduced. If such a market existed, I would buy credit futures.
I'll go into the more extensive supply and demand arguments tomorrow, but I think that this is a significant supply factor for credits. Another nuance you didn't note is that the big donators (i.e. high level toptier players) are the ones experiencing the most bottleneck, as they lack anything more to achieve. Whereas a midlevel donator may have to shoulder a couple mil for future upgrades, as well as boosting endu and housing, a high level player, and former big donator, already has all of these.