AtaguS
Well-Known Member
@BrinDarby I have watched and participated as members here have tried to address your difficulties with the game by offering tried and true solutions. But it does seem the only solution you will entertain is a general consent to your desire to profit off trades and have everyone who has been playing this game one way, switch and play it another - for you. And here is where I think you are running into trouble.
Says who?
I agree with you that a "Trade" could also be defined as a "Swap" and from the day I built mine I have viewed it as just this; a place to swap my boosted goods for my non-boosted goods.
Someone out there - either in my fs or beyond - has an abundance of boosted silk but needs scrolls,
while I have an abundance of boosted scrolls and need silk.
It is a win win.
But I disagree that the use of the word trade automatically implies some capitalistic definition where profit is king and fair is defined by someone being desperate enough in an unfair market to take an unfair trade. I see no evidence of that being what Inno meant but a ton of evidence that it isn't what Inno meant.
No one is barred by the system from using the trader to turn a profit but there will be push back from a majority of players because it runs counter to how a majority of players play, and that alone may be enough to act as a barrier to that strategy. I've heard multiple members tell you that nothing stops you from trying to play this way, but they personally wouldn't take your trades. If you are still unsuccessful with this game strategy after all this time, perhaps it is because the playing populace at large feels the same way. Not because the game is flawed.
This is a game of choosing approaches and strategies. If this one is not working for you, try another - we've all changed some strategy at one time or another as the game changes, or just as we grow. But, if you are instistant that the strategy you have chosen should work, and that the game and all its players ought to change theirs to make your strategy successful - then maybe consider this is an issue with your strategy and not the game at large.
This isn't the first time someone has tried to point that out to you and this, too, is a helpful tip being offered in good faith. I have to agree this pattern is more chaos and conflict making than I'm willing to engage with in an otherwise fun forum. I do wish you the best of luck in the game and hope you find a strategy which allows you to enjoy it as much as we all do. And I hope to find interaction with you in the future of a brighter nature. So I hope you stick around.
But on the topic of trading and your resulting frustrations, I'm getting off the merry-go-round too.
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but the point to trade is still trade, not swap ...... swap is what you do within a FS....
Says who?
I agree with you that a "Trade" could also be defined as a "Swap" and from the day I built mine I have viewed it as just this; a place to swap my boosted goods for my non-boosted goods.
Someone out there - either in my fs or beyond - has an abundance of boosted silk but needs scrolls,
while I have an abundance of boosted scrolls and need silk.
It is a win win.
But I disagree that the use of the word trade automatically implies some capitalistic definition where profit is king and fair is defined by someone being desperate enough in an unfair market to take an unfair trade. I see no evidence of that being what Inno meant but a ton of evidence that it isn't what Inno meant.
No one is barred by the system from using the trader to turn a profit but there will be push back from a majority of players because it runs counter to how a majority of players play, and that alone may be enough to act as a barrier to that strategy. I've heard multiple members tell you that nothing stops you from trying to play this way, but they personally wouldn't take your trades. If you are still unsuccessful with this game strategy after all this time, perhaps it is because the playing populace at large feels the same way. Not because the game is flawed.
This is a game of choosing approaches and strategies. If this one is not working for you, try another - we've all changed some strategy at one time or another as the game changes, or just as we grow. But, if you are instistant that the strategy you have chosen should work, and that the game and all its players ought to change theirs to make your strategy successful - then maybe consider this is an issue with your strategy and not the game at large.
Brin, unfortunately there is a pattern emerging where your posts - unintentionally though it may be - antagonize forum members. But you cry foul or claim confusion when they react to being antagonized. Much of this is in your delivery and one aspect of success in any social game or interaction is taking charge of your own delivery.It just feels like catch 22, Darielle ..... I can't be social there, and I can't be social here, simply cause I have
a unique personality, I post too much, and as we all do have an opinion on everything...... heh heh
This isn't the first time someone has tried to point that out to you and this, too, is a helpful tip being offered in good faith. I have to agree this pattern is more chaos and conflict making than I'm willing to engage with in an otherwise fun forum. I do wish you the best of luck in the game and hope you find a strategy which allows you to enjoy it as much as we all do. And I hope to find interaction with you in the future of a brighter nature. So I hope you stick around.
But on the topic of trading and your resulting frustrations, I'm getting off the merry-go-round too.
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