Automatic trade offers

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   Automatic
trade offers would trigger if some player defined conditions would be met. 

Example auto
sell option:

If wood
> 200K in storage then put on market sell offer of 50K for 3.5 gold per
unit.

Of course
system would check for available caravans. Player would have to set all the values and enable auto sell option. 

Example
auto buy option:

If food
< 50K in storage put on market exactly 2 buy offers for 50K for 3 gold per
unit.

System would
check for available gold, caravans and number of equivalent existing offers already
on the market. If all conditions would be met the offers would be made. In
example above if someone would sell 50K food to that town, the system should
not make another offer while goods are being transported (otherwise someone could
sell to the same town millions of food…)

Such
automatic offers would make life easier for many players who run cities on
negative food and players could sell their surpluses with less effort. In my opinion much more goods would be sold and bought
stabilizing the market prices over the long run. 

Alliance players could make internal rules
to buy or sell only resources of their alliance. 
Some new research would enable auto trade offers. 

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Bonaparta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Joined: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Milky Way Status: Offline Points: 541	Topic: Automatic trade offers Posted: 05 Dec 2011 at 02:42
	Automatic trade offers would trigger if some player defined conditions would be met. Example auto sell option: If wood > 200K in storage then put on market sell offer of 50K for 3.5 gold per unit. Of course system would check for available caravans. Player would have to set all the values and enable auto sell option. Example auto buy option: If food < 50K in storage put on market exactly 2 buy offers for 50K for 3 gold per unit. System would check for available gold, caravans and number of equivalent existing offers already on the market. If all conditions would be met the offers would be made. In example above if someone would sell 50K food to that town, the system should not make another offer while goods are being transported (otherwise someone could sell to the same town millions of food…) Such automatic offers would make life easier for many players who run cities on negative food and players could sell their surpluses with less effort. In my opinion much more goods would be sold and bought stabilizing the market prices over the long run. Alliance players could make internal rules to buy or sell only resources of their alliance. Some new research would enable auto trade offers.

Daufer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Warrior Joined: 14 Jun 2011 Status: Offline Points: 332	Posted: 05 Dec 2011 at 04:29
	Huge amount of data checking to encode in order to automate a process that only requires that you log in, notice that your storage is almost full, and place a sell order on the market for a suitably low price. I really can't imagine them going to the trouble.

Cuddlefuzz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 22 Aug 2011 Status: Offline Points: 47	Posted: 05 Dec 2011 at 14:50
	I mentioned something like this in a thread about game economics a while ago. A system like this would make some strategies more efficient and increase diversity. Particularly running a gold deficit and supporting units by selling resources. This would also make production bonus sov squares more desirable, e.g. a city with a few chain production bonuses near it could pump out chain, continually selling it to fund military/diplomats. Condition-based trade orders would greatly simplify management around this strategy.