Ragnarok
2008-06-25 |  | Fed market |  |
if you had a special market available only for fed members to see that was monitored by admins just like the general market, would this be a good idea? I`ve seen other text based games with this feature put in.
Would this be too easily abused you think? Or under used? I`m sure this would be valuable in case the markets ran out of something. I mean it does seem kind of counter intuitive to buy from the same market that your enemies use and fund their bank accounts, or send resources there to help stock your enemy`s stores if there is a shortage. |
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CounterCrazy
99+ day(s) ago | Sure is a way to abuse.... im surprised fed markets arent in place with how cheap & retarted other things are in this game.
however i think its not in place cause its more work for staff who are lazy-ish |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | it would be effectivly a join bank account with 21 credit cards, if you need more cash for something just ask a fed mate and bang...cheap stuff there, post it on the normal market, as same/different fed mate to buy it...bang money problem solved.
Or you need money ahve have stuff to sell price it at max and have a helpful fed mate buy it up, even if the normal market is going down the toilet
Imagine the amount of tax empires that would spring up when a fed has 2+ agri empires? the agri empires would sell on the fed market only to fuind their mate to be able to play, even if food prices are over their profitable limit due to race mods (18 for viral w/o goods, 37 per w/o goods for miner)
Just way open to abuse, no matter how you put it |
CounterCrazy
99+ day(s) ago | one market for all is the only way to promote fairness & equality for all
any other way would be pretty much unfair & lets face it more like cheating with your fed mates all day long if you got ur own private market |
StormofBladeZ
99+ day(s) ago | Entire Existence of GC. ^;^ |
Travvivian
99+ day(s) ago | The idea has existed for years. As cool of a feature as it may be, it never has and never will be implemented. *shrug* |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Eh, are you asking about throughout the entire existence of GC or just in the last year? ^_^ |
StormofBladeZ
99+ day(s) ago | Have you the thought in your head how many times this topic was brought up already in the past?
Great idea.
Sadly will probably never happen.
Talk to Stephen.
if you can. |
CounterCrazy
99+ day(s) ago | Oh i want to fund a guard so he can spam up to 1 billion power.... where do i sign up to hand over minerials & ore to my fed mate.... i want them to go go go go go on the rich list & fight & die |
Eternaldeath
99+ day(s) ago | I like bobbys second point, allow you to see and buy from your fed mates even if its not the soonest ending etc |
Exule
99+ day(s) ago | Oh yeah, that`s just what the staff wants to do, watch 10+ markets every day. Heck, it`s common knowledge that staff have nothing better to do anyway :) |
Ronin
99+ day(s) ago | Not too mention I am sure Maraudian would love the idea of watching a hundred plus markets. |
Ronin
99+ day(s) ago | The games market is completely flooded, so why is there a need for a fed market. Only reason for it is for making profit between fed mates which sounds skeptical to me.
Why do we guards have such a bad rep, lol. Disallowing guards, me wants a piece of the pie if there was one. |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | Then it is classified are market transfers and thus illigal |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Also, as for the guard concern, you could easily curb this concern by disallowing guards from being able to access the fed market entirely. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | That way even if their fed mate`s prices aren`t the lowest, you can still buy from them instead of some unknown player who could be in a competing fed.
As for the food market, make it so that anything that is more than like +/- 5 food units of the current lowest food price won`t show up on the fed market in order to curb abuse but not eliminate the advantage of being in a strong fed with a strong member economy. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Another idea possibly is to integrate the fed market with the general market. You would still need to sell it on the general market, but your fed mates can check the fed market and only buy from other fed mates instead of potentially competing feds. |
bobbysindustrialpat
99+ day(s) ago | Anything to encourage more fed cooperation would be good.
Maybe something where the usual market price limits are applied to the fed market, or you have the option in the normal market to buy from your fedmate if they`re selling at the lowest price, but not soonest ending, etc. Or you just see if the stuff for sale comes from your fedmate or not, and you could chose on that basis whether or not to buy.
That might cut out the abuse, but help support the fed..... |
travvman
99+ day(s) ago | thats why you have a limit on fed market... so you can help/be helped by fed mates but not exploit or benefit from it too much. |
forald
99+ day(s) ago | if everyone gets their minerals and food from the fed market, who`s going to use the general market?
fedless people don`t get the stuff they need, and only those in rich feds will benefit |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | a limit will make the market useless.
Anything that can be internal for the fed would bew a good thing but I`m soprry to say it is open to massive abuse.
Who is to stop a rich player effectivly finance a freshly restarted guard to corr spam up to say 100 mill PR by selling minerals or food or ore for 1 cred per or for free then the guard player resells on the normal market for max profit and just builds up, takes down person XYZ and anyone else they want on the way down, then restart to do it all over again to deny retals?
It`s an extreme example but one that would be very lucrative, almost like paying for a suicider on UC in a way |
