Been trying to find out what qualifies and triggers the Surge Pricing mechanic.
I’ve keep trying to do it, and I’ve been experiencing the following oddities. Likely the problem is me, but Im unable to wrap my head around it:
I mount p and take jobs when the surge pricing bar appears. Yet, Completing tasks don’t seem to reward any boxes.
Half the time I’m in the middle of doing activities just for Surge pricing to disappear while I’m doing them and get no rewards.
I’ll jump in and start doing it, and sometimes the “Urge to Surge” quest won’t complete even when the surge pricing is done.
Sometimes I’ll try going for a 10 streak. It’ll get to 9, and it’ll tell me my next job is to rest, but by the time I get there, it’s reset back to 1.
Can someone explain this like i’m a senile old man (Cause I am). None of Surge pricing makes sense to me
Surge Pricing is a timed event, like the theatre troupe, and is done as a community. While it’s up and you’re taking jobs, you’ll see a progress bar at the top, just like in the theatre troupe. As players run jobs, it grants points on the bar, and everyone gets rewards when you hit certain breakpoints, just like the other communal events.
Every hour at X:30
Whoever designed the weekly is an idiot, you MUST have a delivery done prior to earning a box to get credit. Simply doing a delivery during the event doesn’t count, you have to hit the 10/50/150 jobs mark and contribute before that breakpoint is reached.
Cannot join in late or you’ll quickly miss the first 2 boxes and then rely on getting the final epic box. If a few others are just doing the weekly and stop at 10, you have to do all 40 remaining jobs to hit the 50 mark. By yourself.
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On the plus side, if the first two are bypassed so quickly that you miss them by joining in late, there’s a pretty good chance that epic box will be obtained. On my server I usually have to settle for the blue box even if I’m there from the start. 
150 jobs for the epic container?
urggg. I think I’ll pass.
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They are probably bugged and even blizz can’t tell you how it works. They can tell you how they meant it to work but then the sheer incompetency would be more glaring than it is.
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You don’t have to do them yourself. It’s a group effort.
honestly, I would only accept an answer from a degreed economist if I were you, everyone else is just speculating based on anecdotal evidence.