This took more time to make then I anticipated (mostly from crappy formatted data) but here is a rough timeline of krono price from June 26 - Today on Mischief. This is based off WTB/WTS of krono, all extracted from my log files (about 8500 rows total). Enjoy!
If you look closely at the first chart. The date 17th October 2021, Norrath on Mischief, was introduced to Steam Power and Sanitation - Starting the burst of energy and ideas, that marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
I bet it was hackermans using their technomancy powers to Krono harder than they’ve ever Kronoed before. Unless it wasn’t in which case that’s ridiculous and I can’t believe anyone would ever fall for such a thing.
Now here me out, we know for a fact that there was a plat dupe bug being used. My theory is that the game devs didn't actually remove the plat. Bam.
maybe Daybreak is buying up Krono by generating plat so they can acquire kronos and force people to buy more.