FieryArien
Necromancer
The main problem I personally have with the current cross-tier trading is the constant need for explanation. People post these “fair” trades as the system sets them up and afterwards they are upset/disappointed when no one takes those trades. They are doing nothing wrong (just accepting guidance from the system) and people who don’t accept those trades are doing nothing wrong either (just refusing to be abused and also unhappy for having these trades occupying prominent places in trader window). Both parties are dissatisfied (before anyone says that: yes, exceptions exist). That does look like broken system to me.
Even though I’m sure nothing like this will happen, I’d love to see percentage based rating with clearly marked tier of goods (T1/T2/T3/T4/T5 - note that I don’t know anything about T5&6 yet, but I suppose they might be cross-traded as well). Example follows:
offer # demand # rating
1600 marble (T1 label) # 100 gems (T3 label) # 1600%
500 marble (T1 label) # 600 planks (T1 label) # 83%
1000 Magic dust (T3 label) # 8000 marble (T1 label) # 12,5%
1000 elixir (T3 label) # 16000 steel (T1 label) # 6,25%
There are obvious disadvantages:
- Within the same star bracket (trades with the same number of stars) the current system sorts trades from the biggest to the smallest. That’s a cool feature allowing me to take fewer big-ish trades and saving me clicks/taps. I don’t see how that could be done in the percentage system.
- Even the most commonly argued rate 1:2:4 would mean the T1:T3 trades are rated as low as 12,5%. Would people really take those? And from the other trade point of view - would anyone be willing to post 800% rated trades?
My personal conclusion: 1) The current rating system is pretty bad. 2) I don’t see any perfect solution. 3) I would fully support the change of the rating system from 1:4:16 to 1:2:4 as a compromise solution.
Even though I’m sure nothing like this will happen, I’d love to see percentage based rating with clearly marked tier of goods (T1/T2/T3/T4/T5 - note that I don’t know anything about T5&6 yet, but I suppose they might be cross-traded as well). Example follows:
offer # demand # rating
1600 marble (T1 label) # 100 gems (T3 label) # 1600%
500 marble (T1 label) # 600 planks (T1 label) # 83%
1000 Magic dust (T3 label) # 8000 marble (T1 label) # 12,5%
1000 elixir (T3 label) # 16000 steel (T1 label) # 6,25%
There are obvious disadvantages:
- Within the same star bracket (trades with the same number of stars) the current system sorts trades from the biggest to the smallest. That’s a cool feature allowing me to take fewer big-ish trades and saving me clicks/taps. I don’t see how that could be done in the percentage system.
- Even the most commonly argued rate 1:2:4 would mean the T1:T3 trades are rated as low as 12,5%. Would people really take those? And from the other trade point of view - would anyone be willing to post 800% rated trades?
My personal conclusion: 1) The current rating system is pretty bad. 2) I don’t see any perfect solution. 3) I would fully support the change of the rating system from 1:4:16 to 1:2:4 as a compromise solution.