Talk:Legendary Core/@comment-67.11.201.240-20140517204226

My Legendary Core cost/price equation. I'll be using example numbers on costs for this equation.

X = Cost of most expensive single mod fully ranked 200p

Y = Cost of most expensive single mod unranked 40p

Z = The base price of a legendary core

X - Y = Z

200p - 40p = 160p

Now that is the base cost of the Legendary Core, without factoring in some variable modifiers that are quantifiable based on shifting values in the trade community. These modifiers can change by the hour and are purely reliant on the trade community selling and buying at the moment.

A = Supply of core

B = Demand for core

C* = Hype of the idea


 * C is a subcharacteristic modifier of B.

So even though the Base Price of Legendary Cores may somewhat be quantified, the variable modifiers will always affect the cost of Legendary Cores.

What we can say is on a bell curve, the extremes will be the 10k plat or 100 plat costs.

The problem with all of this is lack of consolidation of pricing. Pricing is set and exists on warframe forums, on external sites run by players, and in game in trade chat. Lack of information about base pricing is what allows this core to be sold in it's extreme pricing.