Fact: Price fluctuation has nothing to do with the demand of items.
This bit was never coded in. Price ranges from ~40% to ~350%. Price is RANDOMLY determined. Arrows also randomly show up and down with no proper pattern.
Proof of this? Monitor the price of plates for dungeons like Ichigaya Silver that pretty much no one runs.
Also, the base price of Ichigaya Gold plates is 26600, not 20k like before. This means the average costs of plates for Ichigaya Gold has went up by a good bit.
Fact: There are only 2 prices for plates: the Yagiya at the dungeon itself and the Yagiya in the Jakyou.
All Yagiya in the Jakyou have the same price because they are the same NPC internally, and are cloned/cped.
Telling people to buy plates somewhere else is dumb.
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