Peacocks on Parade

Thanks banjo!

I am in love with the look of the red peacock pen and red fan pen!!! The designers did a fabulous job with these!!!!! I have gotten used to seeing the orange pen...but it is still gorgeous!!!
Our mods finally awoke ....and now it's official...another BBD and power feed sale on Friday!!!

yay I'm glad there is another BBD maybe ill get what I need to make my pink peacock on both farms lol

Good luck.  

This farm does not care what folks do with a peacock now!  It's peacock-lettuce playin time.  

have your prince broke farm sell a couple sun peacocks lol

I just need 1 sun peacock to make Pink Peacock. 

me too 12ss12  but I need 1 on each of my farms lol as long as it doesn't skip on me      then I will be 1/2 way to a pink pen and a pink workshop   EDIT: WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I did it I got what I needed and I just made my pink peacock on BOTH of my farms I'm doing the HAPPY DANCE!!!!!

congrats GuineaUp nice job that's awesome and don't worry you will get your pink workshop

GuineaUp wrote:
What's with the markets?  Everything's greyed out, and I wanna sell a couple hundred of my colored Peacocks... but sheesh the prices I can list them for so far are still way too pathetically low    . Is everyone hoarding or what?

The default value (or sliding market index price) is initially set by developers at the item's EV (or barn value).  This initial default value is now regarded s very very low as you have found. As you do not wish to list your peacocks, neither do others.  Keep in mind that the Market Vultures are watching and waiting on a meal.  

These Market Vultures are so cheap that they will watch the market for hours and hours waiting on that meal. (Many know little about how the market works and make their CCs from taking advantage of the weak continuously.  This happens all of the time with new breeding animal introductions.)

Obviously players feel the maximum market price is not sufficient for their efforts or what they have put into the item in order to achieve it.  (You should see the product also and have a laugh.) This is further proof that market prices do affect what one does in the game.  Also, whatever happens in the game transcends itself into the market. 

(more in the next post.)

There is a way to raise the default price for an item on the market.  There must be at least two players wishing to do so and the action (which I will explain) carries with it some risk.  The Market Vulture is the primary risk because they will attack!

Here is how:  

One farmer begins by listing that level one breeding animal let's say.
That farmer's friends buys it for cheap.
Then that farmer lists it again rising the default value.
The first farmer buys it.

again again again again again

The market price will rise.
Individuals are only selling the same item over and over and over again if they increae the default market price this way.
Of course they are willing to pay the 10% listing fee and more for the breeding animal.

The reason is that they want to sell what they have and make up the little they are loosing by raising the default market value.  

I know this works!  The greatest risk is that Market Vulture who will dive in and then not participate in the raising of the index price.  Therefore, raising that index price becomes more expensive because the ones raising the price loose the item to a Market Vulture.  

This continues and others see the price increasing and others will even begin to participate in the price raising exercise.  

Then there is  buying and selling frenzy with some not aware of what is happening and some loosing more than others and the Market Vulture swooping down and feeding.


The time to purposely engage in the price raising exercise is when there are few layers online and therefore less Market Vultures to contend with.  When they appear then the price raising exercise must stop or the looses become to great to make the exercise worth the effort.

There are plenty breeding peacocks in barns.  Players are simply waiting for another to pay the price in order to increase the default value.  

After writing I went to the breeding market.  I find levels one, two and three peacocks.  They are being bought and sold by the same three players.  

Great prices!  This farm is the dangerous Market Vulture.  This farm behaves like such a sleeze ball that it buys all of all three levels and will NOT help with raising the index price.  NO NO NO, I am a sleeze-ball MARKET VULTURE.  (Once a Market Vulture, always a Market Vulture.)

And the farmers have now stopped listing ANY breeding peacocks because the Market Vulture has appeared and they have now suffered looses.

You should begin to see the breeding peacocks appearing.  Level four breeding animals will also begin to appear a little slower (that loosing risk).  And level five appears even less.  And months may pass before the top breeding animal appear.  But the sleezy Market Vultures know they will and they seem to be always flying and waiting.  

With the top breeding animal, the same manipulation can occur but it usually has not in the past.  The Market Vultures may have to wait a year or even years before finishing off their kill. 

The Market Vulture hates it they go:  khaaaaaaaaaaaaaa dunk .... They missed their kill and another Market Vulture is feasting.