Has introduction of stones affected Fruit & dung?

[Bobes]

Originally Posted by cheeky monkey

Let me add another piece of data to my post. When I first found fruit (4-5 months ago), I took it to PA and listen to people buying it. Every time I went through PA in the future, I would listen to the buy prices for future fruit finds. Back then , pre stone-age if you will, Most buyers of fruit would pay 0.9-1.0 PEC/fruit. Rarely I would see a buyer at 0.8, and never saw one over 1.0 PEC/fruit. In the past few weeks, The standard buy prices in PA have gone up to 1.0-1.2 PEC/fruit. This isn't just a one day event, but for a few weeks now.

Using simple economics, a price increase should be caused by either an decrease in supply or an increase in demand. Since the only use for fruit that I know of (I admit, still a newb, could be wrong) is to make nutrio bars for feeding pets. Coupled that with the fact I have seen no sudden increase in pet taming, leads me to believe there is a decrease in the supply of fruit. This occured soon after the stones were introduced, which made sense to me.

Don`t take resellers at their prices. Short check auction history for all 4 types of fruit: Before stones were introduced, fruit can be sold for 1.5 to 2 pec/fruit. Since last major VU supply of fruit is slowly growing, price is between 1.2 to 1,6. Fruit spawn seems to be the same random as before, but many ppl searching for well priced stones find more fruits now.