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  • KatanauwoKatanauwo Posts: 309Member Intermediate
    Resellers always flourish everywhere. The limited inventory space and the limited postal system means you cannot get what you urgently need all the time. 

    E.g. 
    Your ship improvement requires a large gaff sail, but you are unable to produce it yet. Would you rather spend 3 days to grind sewing, and then another few hours to gather material to just make one of them, or would you rather spend 50m from your founder reward and move on?

    Say you are future sighted, therefore you decide to produce 20 of those sails. Where are you going to keep them? While you are keeping them, can you make your cannon production?

    And what are you going to do about admiral cabin, aide cabin, recreational cabin, and etc? 


    If you end up paying 50m to buy that (damn) gaff sail, do not swear at the reseller. You are willing to buy it because you urgently need it and reseller happens to sell it in absence of other competition, therefore the value of the gaff sail is 50m rock solid.


    This makes others wonder where did competition go? 

    We have a small population, and a lottery system with rare ships. Most players are busying nanbaning to afford those rare ships. It is an opportunity loss to actually produce those FS parts and keep them in inventory while trying to sell them. So most people only either produce what they need, or buy from the market with a hefty premium. It somehow justifies the opportunity cost of not running nanban while making FS.


    When you think reseller is the problem of hyper inflation, think harder, why the supply of some items are so scarce, especially the premium items. If every day there are 100 ROG being provided into the system, i doubt that ship would still be 100b, with or without resellers.



  • AdelinaKazAdelinaKaz Posts: 83Member Beginner
    @Katanauwo 

    "If every day there are 100 ROG being provided into the system, i doubt that ship would still be 100b"

    Agree. If the desired ship can be bought in a store at a fixed price for real money, its price in dukats will not jump much and it will be impossible to inflate it. The maximum is + 20%.

  • AdelinaKazAdelinaKaz Posts: 83Member Beginner
    I wrote before. Let's say the ROG costs $ 50 = 2000 astro = 10b per ticket. A player with real money for personal use buys it and uses it. If a person does not want to buy it for real money, but wants to buy it for ducats, then he buys it at the rate that was established in the game, he was within 5-7 m behind the astro. The player can pay a little more, about + 20% (I do not think there will be more) if he needs to buy urgently.
    There are two sides for reseller: 1. A player who needs urgent ducats in the game will buy things for real money and sell them a little cheaper for speed, and a player who needs things for ducats will buy things more expensive for speed. But the prices will be within +/- 20% and everyone will know the current prices. Honest resellers will always be, they will not be infringed, but there will not be scammers, as it will be impossible to deceive, because the prices are known to everyone.
    My suggestion: 1. To fix the cost of all things and ships in the store. 2. remove items from the store that can be made / found / bought from the NPC / selected when robbing the NPC
  • crazyhunter2003crazyhunter2003 Posts: 763Member Intermediate
    storage alts FTW
    IGN:JackO'Neil
  • DSDunlap72DSDunlap72 Posts: 14Member Beginner
    I have to say, zimzero, that as Aardvern, I always, when a new player, wanted to sell me an item, let them know whether they could get more for the item than they were asking, particularly when the item was worth 10-30X what they were asking.

    I believe in paying (or asking) a fair price for an item; one that sees the buyer get a reasonable deal and the seller make a reasonable profit.

  • MyklasMyklas Posts: 2Member Beginner
    don't worry Clemson ...

    Myklas the bestest and fairest reseller will be back in game 




  • oldrobcatoldrobcat Posts: 0Member Beginner
    I guess I'm not so much against re-selling as against cornering a market, as this results in items only being buyable by richer players, shutting out the newbies. If a shop runs out of stock it takes time and effort to replace, this game doesn't have a f2p warehouse. If there's no other shop selling that item locally, then you gotta go to Seville DK for stuff. That situation is IRL a rationing and black market scenario. Like wartime or old USSR. I'm not advocating a solution here. Just saying.

    I'll probably do rationing, limit item numbers for sale but keep price reasonable. Give newbies a chance to buy if they come at the right time.

    [Ritz000 insert usual flame points below]
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