Increase Income from Artifacts

[Solenoid]

im surprised rarity is such a big indicator of prices given afaik folk have 0 control over the rarity they get. should artlab's payout as a job really be such a gamble?

Well the artifacts they get are influenced by rarity, due to how probability works, so it kind of averages out. 🤔
I think the main payoff of artlab should be the artifacts themselves, not the cash you get for selling some of them.

The main issue here is people being disappointed by their artifact sales since they have no idea which artifacts are rarer than others, that's why it may be good to make more common artifacts give more money and balance it out by maybe making higher tiers give a little less. (People could also use the appraiser tool. Do artlabs get one of those these days?)

I can say that generally in my experience, if not always, artlabs do not get a cargo appraiser(afaik). I'm also sure how it would work on artifacts, given that the payout is based on accuracy(could players just scan with various combinations of things on the artifact identification form to find out how correct they are? or would it give the value for 0% accuracy regardless of what's on the form??). I'll give it some in-game testing today and see if an appraiser would work for stuff like that.