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Berde 
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 Topic: What do you think of Centrum VisibilityPosted: 01 Feb 2015 at 01:21 |
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There's been a lot of grumbling from folks I talk to about the change that allowes everyone to see the prices from Centrum everywhere. Discussion of it making Centrum even more ingrained, discussion that seeing prices at Centrum stifles the markets in other regional hubs.
What's your take on it?
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Brandmeister
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 01:26 |
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Far and away the worst trade 'feature' in the game. This makes it impossible to easily see local orders arranged by price, because Centrum has so many more orders than everywhere else. I would love to know what the devs were thinking on this one, since it created so much visual clutter for active traders.
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Rill
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 02:23 |
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I'm ambivalent. Not all that happy about all the Centrum orders clogging my screen, but it is useful for cities that don't have traders in Centrum.
Perhaps it could be made optional? Like an "everywhere but Centrum" option?
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Stonerman
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 02:33 |
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personally, being able to see centrum from all my towns has caused me more than a few annoyances. buying things from my towns when i mean to do a hub to hub transaction because i wasnt paying attention to what town i had focus on, can cause quite a scare when you have to take a second to find out where that mountain of gold in your town that was feeding a mass of troops went
as well as the monopoly now in place, now availability in an area has absolutely no meaning. at least before the local markets would get by with a few trades to the people who didnt have a trader in centrum (even if just a few people) but now if you buy locally your doing a favor
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Rill
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 02:58 |
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Since the main point of the increased visibility of Centrum was to assist players in the new player ring, maybe make Centrum have an extra-wide but not complete visibility? Like anyone within 300 squares can see Centrum? or 500 squares? Not sure how easy this would be to code or whether it would address concerns.
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hrandjt
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 02:59 |
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I think that making Centrum visible to everyone in the newbie circle is important but I do not like the way it was implemented at all.
I would have much rather that they had increased the visibility radius of the marketplace such that someone in the newbie circle with a few levels (5-10) in their market place could see Centrum.
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Rill
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 03:24 |
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That's a good suggestion, maybe increase the base visibility for all hubs. Or increase the multiplier for each level.
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Brandmeister
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 03:52 |
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Delete the feature. Add a new Centrum item on the drop down list of All Visible Hubs, All Visible Towns. Problem solved.
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Gragnog
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 07:40 |
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Down with it. If you want to trade in Centrum move closer to it. It does put the other hubs at a disadvantage and does not really help a new player because they will not be using a hub until they settled and playing anyway and then they will have the ability to send out traders and buy and sell anyway thus making them not-a-nood.
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Corwin
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 at 08:33 |
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If you want to see orders in centrum send a trader to it. I know, newer players don't have a trader yet, but if they are still that small they can get enough goods from friendly players nearby and they definately won't need advanced items at that point, so everything they need can be gained by city to city trade.
It's ridiculous you can see offers from centrum from towns in broken lands. It's probably the biggest reason why tradehubs there are still very quiet. There are no newbies in broken lands so there is absolutely no need for towns there to see centrum offers. |
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