This isn't necessarily true, and will be situational. Paavik/Shanthmark are a bad example for buying FROM the village at the moment, because their price doesn't reduce per turn-in as quickly as in other villages. In fact, I think they are the worst for cloth that I've tested so far.

I managed to get gems down to 1gp, then turned in another 20ish rockeaters or so after that 1gp point. When I bought my first batch of ten, it stayed at 1gp per. When I bought my second batch, it was still 1gp per. On my third? -Still- 1gp per. It wasn't until the fourth that gems went up to 7gp per. And this was when the gem level hit about 240~ in said village.

Angkrag seems to be an outlier for gems and is designed specifically to accumulate more gems before seeing a price drop. Whether there is a specific purpose to this or not is unclear yet (tithe size has been guessed, but not confirmed in any way). I recommend at least trying a different village for cloth - maybe Delport or Estelbar.

I am wondering if it's true that some villages reduce/increase prices differently to others, though, and if so, why that might be. Will be interested to see how it turns out in the next few days.

The most important power a guild admin has is called "Allocation of Duty", or as I like to call it, "point and click". Send out your nublets to do comm quests! Make them bring those sheep in if they want robes! Hold contests!

I'm torn on this.

On the one hand, making the system more closely ape an actual market mechanic is neat.

On the other, its sort of an awkward imitation, and making it that much harder for everyone (and especially newer folks) to get their commodities for vials, armour, robes, weapons and the like, especially after doubling the costs of these things, is not so good.

Sidebar- I wonder what would happen if I went to work, and saw an elderly lady with six cans of beans, approached her, and said:

I see you have six cans of beans there. Well now, the first one will of course be a dollar, like the sign says. However, since that caused a shift in demand, the second will be 1.50, the third will be 2.00, and that last one, well, that'll be 3.50.

Have a nice day!

You don't have to personally buy comms, you can buy them off others who take the time to maximize the system! Why not let those who spend the effort to make a profit?

Also, we're watching to see how the commodity system runs. One thing I will mention is that it is VERY easy for us to tweak the commodity system (before it was next to impossible without a great deal of headache) so we can adjust costs or production on the fly. This was a substantial under-the-hood coding rewrite which I'm sure no one but the admin can appreciate, but here's a shout out to our invisible wonder coder!

So please raise each batch, and lower the price between batches, and also please smooth out the gem prices. 1260 gold per gem cluster is way too expensive.