Pre-Announcement: Upcoming Changes to Market Stands

[Otis]

1000s a week is huge for a small stand owner. Happy for a change, anyone can see it needs tuning, but this is VERY high unless you are trying to remove the small stand owners - which maybe is the goal.

[Dallane]

nice

[Procne]

1000s a week is huge for a small stand owner. Happy for a change, anyone can see it needs tuning, but this is VERY high unless you are trying to remove the small stand owners - which maybe is the goal.

Hmm 1000s isn't that much. You can easily gather enough stuff in few hours at most to pay that. And even if you don't produce anything you can buy and resell goods. But if that's still too much for you then maybe stall should go to someone who can make better use of it. No offense, but stalls should serve trading, so if you don't have enough stuff for trading to afford the upkeep then it probably means your stall is empty most of the time.

[Droj]

Not the sort of market update I was expecting really. Unless you centralise trading or add more stalls this people are still going to QQ

Is that 1000 per week per stall regardless of location?

[colesie]

I was hoping for more really... Why can't we just have a billboard in town where people can post what they want to buy and sell?

[Gacrux]

I was hoping for more really... Why can't we just have a billboard in town where people can post what they want to buy and sell?

you're playing too much mabinogi

[JeffGV]

The changes seems quite good and should reduce the practice of using them as storage. Still, the rent seems a big high.

Mhh...what about having different "commercial zones" in Boston with a rent dependant on the distance from the center (aka, the teleport point)? The ones near the center would be the ones most visited, due to them being near the teleport, but if there some commercial suburbs at, let's say, a minute or two from the center, they could have a cheaper rent (but they wouldn't be visited as often as the ones near the center, at least by the occasional buyer).

[Ornery]

Cool, might dam the river of tears that stems from the market stalls. Maybe.

[Ass_Kraken]

This reminds me of a suggestion someone made recently.

What if a percentage of sales went to the cost of rent in the form of a tax? This way funds go directly to the base cost of upkeep with the stall from the very onset, making more prosperous stalls receive higher income sooner (once the rent is paid, full amounts are paid out from sales.)

Stalls that fail to meet the paid rent can be paid with input silver at a higher cost should they be incapable of earning or worried they won't make enough in the month's time.

That would be awesome. Makes the high rent cushion those who actually sell. Only problem is you deposit silver and can't take it back out. It'd be cool if it stacked to future deposits aswell.

Also, allowing traders to force items to be sold in bundles, and the bundle being the end tax would be nice so people could sell 1 silver items.

[MagicManICT]

I was hoping for more really... Why can't we just have a billboard in town where people can post what they want to buy and sell?

you're playing too much mabinogi

Nevah!!

Honestly, I'd rather see something like one of the original Dutch stock exchanges. The closest I've seen to it in a game is Pirates of the Burning Sea.

PS: should have dropped this on everyone the day of.