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I'm just afraid the players would forget to unblock, and harm a newbie player who has learned his lesson, that's all. But I do agree that something should be done, and your way would be better than nothing.
LOVE this idea, and the name = The Coalition for Fair Trades Count me in as a charter member
Thank you for your enthusiasm.
Hmm... that's hard to abbreviate: TCFT?
Good grief. Is there actually some strategy these people are pursuing to manipulate the trader market? I appreciate the cooperative nature of the game, even go so far as knock a little off each of my trades in order to make them 3* (I think I read somewhere that 3* trades are posted before 2* trades, etc).
That reminds me of kauft, bought, in German. I wonder if it originated there?
Yep. You won't see it until you get to Sentient goods (Elementals: Ch12). Sentient goods are traded worldwide, not just FS and neighbors. Sentient goods decay (you lose 10% of your inventory to decay every day). Higher chapters require huge amounts of them to unlock a research tech. Players end up posting up good 3* trades hoping to get them taken so they can use them before the end of their day to unlock the research instead of losing 10% of what they've got overnight and having to make more/trade more the next day. There are players who snap up those trades offering whichever goods are less plentiful on that world at that time, then repost them as 0* or 1* trades knowing desperate players will take them to avoid the decay, turning a profit for themselves at the expense of the other players.
So do I, and I hate that a small minority of players enjoy 'getting over' more than 'getting along', but it is what it is. I still offer discounts on my trades on a regular basis (for both regular and sentient goods). I get over it by imagining how it would be to live inside the heads of some of these folks (or imagine what it would be like to be married to one of them!) and consider myself both lucky and blessed. If they weren't so arrogant and hateful, I'd feel sorry for them...
Both English and German originate in Ancient German, so they have a lot of similar words. This is my impression, but I don't know German - only a couple of words...
Exactly and thx for explaining.
Scams are everywhere with every good. Wherever a bad apple has figured out that a neighborhood has too little of one item, they snap it up and gouge. But for every scammer, I think there are fifty wonderful Elvenar players who will go out of their way to help others. That's what I love about this game. You still have bad, but you have so much more good that it makes up for it.