I've been noticing that his sP prize amounts seem to be lower than usual which is making me lose profit on some of his quests, as the amount I predict isn't really accurate anymore. Like today he gave me 50k on a quest. I've never seen him dip so low before! Is this a bug or some sort? Or perhaps it's just random and everything is fine?
that's not actually technically true though for Saggi, his prizes are based on a percentage return of the rarity of the items he asks for. At least that's how they have been for as long as I can remember. I know it was tweaked several times when quests were revamped. That being said, I have also noticed that I'm having a lot harder time getting decent profit from him. His prizes are overall lower and don't seem to be as consistent across the board. Maybe it's because we had his quests a couple of weeks in a row not too long ago, and those items are still pretty inflated? Luminaire inflates stuff too, I'm not sure.
I heard he was revamped a few times. I also heard that he used to give out prize money based on the amount of items he asked for, but I'm not sure if that's true or not. I noticed that his prizes seemed to be flipped. Like rather than giving a low amount for a quest that only costs 20k, he gives a high amount but for a quest that costs 100k, he gives out a low amount. I typically try not to spend over 10-30k per item for him, but since for so long I'd usually make a profit from "going out on a limb", I kinda went slack on that for a little bit. I was a little shocked when I ended up spending about 120k on one of his quests and he only gave back 50k. It was alarming how low he got, to me anyway. I know the other quests are random, but even for them I can usually guess what the outcome will be. I don't know what the deal is, but I figured a board might give some answers, heh.
Pay attention to the rarity of the items he's asking for. I haven't had any issues with my quests for him, I am actually finding that he's asking for items that are extremely cheap. (Tho now that I've said it I'm sure that will change, Ha!) But I am still making a profile around 1 mil a day. I did have a bad day a couple days ago where I only made about 500K.