As many of you have, I am sure, noticed there are many threads talking about the horrible prices for even basic materials on other servers. I have a plan in order to help this and I am curious how many will follow this plan with me.

My plan is to set a guide of great to decent prices for basic materials and set a standard mark up percentage for compounded goods.

For example here is a list of basic materials found on North Island by easy means (Item pools / spawns)

Coconut 10-15

- 2 Coconuts spawn on SB every 1.5 minutes. This turns into 80 an hour should you be willing to walk back and forth between the trees. That being said coconuts are really common even for north island. Coconuts are a cheap source of Naptha and Tar both used for many things.

Cotton 5-10
Harl Grass 5-10

- Cotton and Harl are of course used to make many many things. But they are both very common on north island. There is no reason these should cost more than 10 considering with the collection skill you have a chance to get up to 5 every 3-5 minutes from the item pool.

Sulfur 50-100
Coal Ore 2-3
Copper Ore 2-3
Tin Ore 3-4
Iron Ore 4-5
Aluminum Ore 25-50
Quartz 25-50

- Prices here vary a bit due to rarity Coal, Tin, Copper, and Iron being very common and easy to get should be sold for only 1-2 more than the npc will pay. Aluminum, I assume many people don't realize that compounding it with a base Rock will 99% of the time return a base Aluminum, therefore Aluminum ore is just as good as Hard Aluminum Plates and everything in between. Quartz and sulfur are slightly more rare. Considering the easiest way to get them is an item pool and they are each the rarest in the item pool they are worth a little more.

Clay 2-3
Red Clay 3-4
White Clay 3-4
Black Clay 3-4
Grey Clay 3-4
Dry Clay 3-4
Yellow Clay 3-4

- All Clays. No matter color or type should be 1-2 higher than npc price.

Oak 20-30
Wood 20-30
Lauan 15-25
Ordinary Wood 10-15

- Considering woods are one of the most needed materials in the game demand is higher. Therefore they are worth a bit more. Lauan being the most useless (unless you travel by making a boat a lot) is worth less. It is also the most common. Wood being used in the manufacturing of everything is worth a bit and Oak being a bit more rare is also worth a bit more. Also think of this. When you cut a piece of wood you get 2 halves. Why should half a piece of wood be worth more than 50% of the cost of the wood.