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The price of energy after the 9/4/03 patch may be changing because they have finally implimented energy potential as a factor:

"Power update. Potential energy attribute > 500 yields up to two times more power output. Power of that quality can last up to two times longer."

I recommend you buy all you can on the bazaar that's still under-priced. It may not last long at that price once people realize it lasts twice as long in their harvesters.

I had some 900+ PE radioactive shift in like 2 steps from my house last night. I checked it out and 23 units was considered 45 energy

And since it lasts twice as long, you only need half as much... So why buy up current price if it looks like the prices will drop even lower?

hmmmm , twice as long means you have lowered demand. I was about to post where I thought you were wrong, but I think you may be right.

The over 500 stuff won't be around all the time...we could go weeks or even months without it, you never know. That's why the price could go up now....it might beworth half now while it's available, but when all you have is 200 availalable, that 500 is going to be in bigger demand.

Read it again. "May last up to twice as long".

My guess would be, it's a straight percentage.

500 pe = 1 'normal' unit

1000 pe = 2 normal units

750 pe = 1.5 normal units

etc.

They vein that just popped two days ago (about fifty paces from my house) was, IIRC, over 700 PE. I have two fusions on it, and needless to say, I'm a happy camper. By the end of this vein's run, I may be switching back to one fusion for a while and getting another lot free for another large harvester.

Glad I got 300k of power with PE of 890.

Ok, as someone posted above, it works like this:

500 PE = 1.0 unit of energy
750 PE = 1.5 units of energy
1000 PE = 2.0 units of energy

The way it works when you load into the harvester, is that the UI displays unit of *power*, not units of *material*. So if the only power you have is a 1,000 unit stack of 1000 PE radioactive, when you get the add power UI open, it will show you as having 2,000 units of power available to add.

No clue how fractional units are rounded, btw.

Its great to talk about how you're gonna get lots of it ( high PE Radioactive )... but i havent noticed it working at all...changesalong withlack of documentation... give us the equation, give us the numbers holo!