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Poll Question: Hide and Close (for a period) Centrum and Hope Ridge ?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote eowan the short Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 12:04
I've done all of those types of trading in the past, they are all viable right now and profitable if you know what you're doing.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Bolism Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 11:55
They are all traders ... On top of a problem of reading and understanding, you have a problem of values ...
And with that I'm done here also ... Good luck, I'm out before I start calling names ....
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sif Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 11:37
Which means the Illyriad trader is the middle man - thus a "real" trader===>>> being a middle man does not make you a trader ..... being a middle man that knows where to buy and where to sell does


  • Flippers (Trade at Centrum by buying low and selling for more)===>>> patience exploiters
  • High quantity traders: Buy smaller quantities and sell as a bulk to interested parties===>>> exploiters of unpatience of others
  • Investors: Buy items when the price is low and later on sell them when they are higher===>>>real trader I doubt their effort worth with the current system. this aspect I want to be expanded and make more profitable
  • Movers: Buy items at local hubs and move them to Centrum/other hubs to sell there===>>>real trader I doubt their effort worth with the current system.  this aspect I want to be expanded and make more profitable
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thirion Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 10:57
Originally posted by Sif Sif wrote:

cause in illyria the trader is the person that take advance of the lack of patient of the sellers to sell and the buyiers to buy .

Which means the Illyriad trader is the middle man - thus a "real" trader.

Outside of what you describe there are a few different areas for traders in Illyriad though:
  • Flippers (Trade at Centrum by buying low and selling for more)
  • High quantity traders: Buy smaller quantities and sell as a bulk to interested parties (usually direct trades)
  • Investors: Buy items when the price is low and later on sell them when they are higher
  • Movers: Buy items at local hubs and move them to Centrum/other hubs to sell there
Most traders engage in multiple areas.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote eowan the short Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 10:21
Yes, there are people who do this in illyriad. That's what people placing buy/sell orders are doing; they are being more patient than the people who fill them.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sif Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 10:16
A trader is and has always been a middle man, and depending on places mostly moving stuff from point a to b, ===>>> Agree does anyone doing this in illyriad ... cause in illyria the trader is the person that take advance of the lack of patient of the sellers to sell and the buyiers to buy .
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote eowan the short Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Mar 2022 at 09:24
I was a trader. I bought low and sold high. I ran a bank doing this. Only reason why I stopped is the amount of effort required to run a bank interfered with my education.

Plenty of crafting is worth it, that's why people do it. The reason why some equipment is not worth it is because the stats on the equipment are bad.


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PRODUCER => TRADER => CUSTOMER

do you know any trader ? and if you do what is his job ? 
does he do something similar to the Amazon or just have patient and trade just for the score ? 

i would be very happy if i was new and at some point realise that traders taking advantage of me , it would be realy chalenging and really motivating for me the efort to overcome this .= which is the point for me and i think for most plaiers the felling that you achieve someting creative  due to your skills.


farthermore i believe that in some deree the lack of trading is and the main reason that crafting is also not worth it
 for  advance crafting : since you know the prices of the harvesters the crafted need to be made when you want to buy ,so the crafter profit is very close to the prices of the harvested item so not really motivate even there 
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for basick : i am sure this system affects them ( i don t have patient to think how .lol)
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In real life economies, vertical integration is a thing. Producers can and do act as the retailer in many cases. In real life economies, organic coordination towards a trading hub is also a thing; think London, New York and Tokyo. This is why your idea doesn't work.
From a realist standpoint, your idea fails totally.

If you want people to engage with trading, then focus on the metagame of trading. I ran a bank in illy some years ago, and another guy ran a bonds program. Both received a lot of interest from the community. The system as-is is fine for promoting trading activity, it's just that the act of trading is somewhat niche as an area of interest.

If you want something to get implemented, you need broad support for it from both the devs and the player base. You will not get this for the idea of hiding hubs.

I'm not saying it is not conceivable for hubs to be hidden within illyria, I am saying that it is not unrealistic for hubs to be visible as is, given what we know of the world. It's not a direct copy of real life.

Your proposal for banning trading chat from GC  is unrealistic, draconian and a terrible idea. 

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Sif, you have a fantasy of how you want trade to be - but that is unrealistic and never going to work. You want us to use an axe to cut a forest - when we have a chainsaw or even more modern tools at home. People write tools for games to make them more convenient. Thats how games work today.

In addition i do not think you have much experience with trading in Illyriad. I do.

Originally posted by Sif Sif wrote:

PRODUCER => TRADER => COSTUMER

 

In real life most producing companies allow you to directly buy from them. But it is more convenient to buy at the local store or at a global store that has everything - thus traders become relevant. It is mostly because of convenience though.

Amazon for example does not have the best price or best reputation. But it has everything - thus people use it.

Originally posted by Sif Sif wrote:

, so it not about more trading is about engage trading.

I understand that GC will cut some of that so I would like not allowed at GC speaking about prices so if you want to advertise your products to be forced to pay more in traders upkeep.

All the deals are made by other ways via GC  are been made by the default knowledge of the prices so changing that will change and the out HUB trade

 


Your suggestions would lead to the opposite though. Convenience in real life and games is important. Most people do not want to waste their time looking for something.

Without Centrum 2 things would happen:

  1. A lot more direct trades via GC and AC
  2. More trades with a few big traders at a new Centrum-like hub.
Instead of Centrum the big traders are going to set the price. Which essentially is the current version but worse.

Why would you engage 10 smaller players that might or might not have the items you want available? When instead you could just ask a big trader that has the items for sure. Or ask in GC - someone is going to answer there.

Why as a trader would you move items to smaller hubs when they just rot there? When instead you can tell people to come to "your" hub to trade.

Originally posted by Sif Sif wrote:

As I said I really don’t care who get richer and who get poorer .


That is a really important factor though. Your suggestions would make the entry for trading a lot higher - thus a lot of the smaller and new traders would just disappear. So instead of making trading more interesting you just make it not worth it for a lot of people that are currently trading.

Originally posted by Sif Sif wrote:

what I care is an aspect that will motivate you to interact trying to became richer or less poor .


Which is already the case. With your suggestions it would become worse.



Edited by Thirion - 23 Mar 2022 at 08:43
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