Cynthia de Luz
Member
I have a thought, shoot me down as you will, based on recent experience: benefactors providing resources to starter players and other FS. If you are, say, a ‘senior’ player with millions in resources and you know that this is a matter of hoarding beyond the needs of your own FS, you seek out and find others more junior and not as privileged as you to share your wealth. You contact that junior player and approach with an offer of providing lopsided trades in their favor, say 6:1 on trades less than 25k items. As Benefactor, you cannot post the trades with your target - we would all snatch up a 60k for 10k trade - instead the Benefactor asks the junior target to contact ahead of the lopsided zero star trade of 10k for 60k of target goods. This puts the junior trader at great risk of being ostracized by the FS team who don’t realize that by allowing this prearranged trade deal to happen, the junior player‘s FS is enriched by the Benefactor. That player is bringing in goods they were not able to obtain from FS members, either because the balance of boosted goods is not equitable, or FS players just not trading. The transactions should be done with plenty of communication to clarify what is happening. Junior players can help build the overall resources of the FS using the Benefactor strategy. However, I can also say there are those ultimately opposed to this activity, and I understand. I believe I was recently booted from a FS in which I was enjoying and growing, because I have a generous benefactor and despite communications, my actions with my benefactor were not understood or appreciated.