You are thinking linearly.
You need to think scale.
So if supply of… say ore, on one high pop server is approx 250k at any given time, with a total of 600k supplied in total per day (350k sold, 600k listed, 250k avaliable at any given time)
Now that market absorbs another market which is 1 million ore supplied, 550k sold, 450k avaliable at any given time, the price of the ore OVERALL will drop, the supply exceeds the demqnd by a larger ratio, therefor there is downward pressure on ore sellers… if they want their ore to sell into a saturated market they incentivize customers by lowering their price and hoping it sells before other peoples product.
If the first server absorbs a market that is only 80k avaliable at any given time, with 130k added daily and 130k sold then the sellers on the main server can start asking for more money, since the buy side pressure exceeds supply which drives prices up until buyers dont buy because its not worth the offered price.
The numbers themselves are largely irrelevant. It could be 2 ore, or 2 billion ore, if the supply exceeds demand the price falls, if the demand exceeds the supply the price rises.
We are getting region wide ah for materials and consumables. BECAUSE THEY ARE “TOO HIGH PRICED” ON MED AND LOW POP SERVERS.
So, it is almost impossible to say that the prices will go down, since the DEMAND from all the low and mid pop servers exceeds supply to the point where mats are obscenely expensive. When the high/full pop servers supply hits that demand… the price seen on the high/full pop servers will thus RISE to meet demand, it will not FALL as DEMAND for the goods goes UP. That makes no sense.
The ratio is all that matters, the numbers are largely irrelevant. Scale. Thats how it works.
I genuinely am blown away at how many people dont understand this stuff.