samidodamage
Buddy Fan Club member
And ya'll thought I was long winded
Is somebody paying you by the word?
Dickens was paid by the word
I don't doubt it's possible to generate some profit on a few trades, but the potential total profit is insignificant compared to a single factory's daily boost output. Even the most widely spread of explorers has a tiny pool from which to generate trades, and most markups at the sentient level are less than the daily decay. A person would have to be both dedicated and lucky to make 5% of their entire stock on a good day, let alone over the long haul. There is zero capacity to support even one city with trading profit.
Did you even read what you quoted? As I said specifically, that works fine for specific individual trades, but not across your entire stockpile on a day-to-day basis. Most people who have a million of something and make a 5% return on 100,000 of it a few times a week do not consider themselves to have made a 5% profit, and are not going to be able to sustain a living off it.First, all it takes to generate a 5% profit are trades offering 5% or more than the standard 2 star trade.
Your posts are written in the same form so I doubt your fooling anyone by another new account.
And, as an aside, Dickens was paid by the word and for that we have a whole library of good works.
@mucksterme is right on this one:that's actually apocryphal
@Steelhail, I didnt read shimmerflys' post as directed to you but I could be wrong, I assumed right or wrong that it was a response to the OP's missive reply?
made the recent changes to the Trader to make it even less wide open. If the OP is legit, he or she is probably just still mad about those changes and wants to go back to the old unfair system.
So for that to be true, the OP had to create two new cities recently, then play them for a few days, then join the forums, just to make the point.
he or she is probably just still mad about those changes and wants to go back to the old unfair system.
@Steelhail @Desire2csomeone is stuck at home during pandemic, looking for
trying to help you and who is possibly the easiest poster in the entire forums to get along with!! You could have taken the time to get to know folks on the forum before lecturing us if you truly wished to 'share' some insights we might be missing.Sometimes when joining a new group it is wise to sit back and observe before jumping in with both feet?
Not criticizing , but rather trying to be helpful.
I am not a vindictive person in any way shape or form. I was just stating what is obvious to me.But if you’re _not_ trying to be a troll here (despite your actions), why not extend the same grace you’d want other people to interpret your own actions with? (After all, you got a couple of likes on your post.)
If you _are_ trying to troll, well then, ask yourself whether you are modeling for newcomers the community and form of participation you’d like them to emulate. Life’s too short to assume the most uncharitable context for someone’s words.
A charitable context is that someone is stuck at home during pandemic, looking for community outlets, has an area of expertise that informs their play style, doesn’t know the unstated community norms when they try to share their beliefs, and tries to fit back in that community by sharing personal details. They even offer to stay away from the forum if the community would “prefer it that way.”
@Steelhail @Desire2c
Or whoever you are Put down the shovel!!
You have confirmed (for me, don't give 2 hoots about whether anyone else agrees with me) that:
(1) both posters are one and the same
(2) you are a long term player who preferred the unfair trade system where you could take advantage of others
And now, you've gone and attacked @shimmerfly
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Secondly, Elvenar is similar to a computer game I played years ago (early 2000’s). I can’t recall the name of the game however, it was based on building a city and managing an economy.
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When I gave my opinion about trader I was only trying to present what I have learned (wrong or right) throughout my years in real estate.
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The book does not present this world as a fantasy but as an idealistic world that can possibly be realized (but I will need to re-read the book to know for sure if this is what the book is exactly about). Nevertheless, I recommend this book to all the Elvenar players.
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I have always held the idea that any economic system could be successful if it was truly ran by the people for the people, be it socialist, capitalist or any other system other than an authoritarian, autocratic or tyrannical type system.
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If Elvenar has evolved into a game having an anarcho-primitivism or utopia type system then I was and is wrong about the game.
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I feel the game’s current economic dynamic can exist while all player on all sides of any trade can be winners and build beautiful cities and provinces especially when, in my opinion, each and every Elvenar player(including our computer army unit) are competing against a computer program and not against each other.
I mentioned @shimmerfly to address the apparent false accusation I was Desire2c (which you echo here), but @allannon thinks shimmerfly wasn’t talking about me, so my apologies shimmerfly if I misunderstood your claim.
I for one cannot be less impressed with your claims of being a great player....As the #4 ranked player on Elcysandir about to hit 1 1/2 times the Ranking points you have, I am not impressed
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Adding: I prefer Ayn Rand personally. I may not agree with all of her philosophy but loved her books since Jr High School