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grymse
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Right to the point.
A set of trading stations run by some economically talented elfs or dwarfs or goblins or whatnot, that one day decide to make our shards their new home.
At a trading station you would find a personal bank box, just like a normal bank where you can fill and redeed commodity deeds.
At a trading station, you would be able to list a filled commodity deed up for sale, with a set price. You would also be able to enter a "buy order" for other goods transferrable via commodity deeds.
The kind elves/dwarves/whatnots would supply us with an up-to-date list of every commodity deed for sale, anywhere in the world. From that list, any player can choose to purchase commodity deeds from other players, using the elves as brokers. After a purchase, you'd have to travel to the correct trading station to pick up your purchase if it was listed for sale at another trading station.
The same list would also show the active "buy orders" for commodities. A player could then decide to sell a commodity deed directly to the buy order. A buy order would be valid for only one trading station, making players have to travel to that station to sell, as well as perhaps spanning the entire shard or parts of the shard (Ilsh, Trammel, Fel etc).
This kind of system would finally let us, the players, decide the fair price for any commodity.
Of course, a variation of this system is already in place, where the price on iron ingots, arrows & bolts, etc varies according to supply and demand - locally in each store. But there is no global view of the "set price" for each commodity making large scale trade impossible, or only possible through a large net of contacts.
If implemented, even cross-shard trading could be profitable. Imagine cleaning out all higher level ingots for sale in Atlantic and bringing them elsewhere.
Well that's my vision. Now bring out your sharp pencils and let me have it. Or not
A set of trading stations run by some economically talented elfs or dwarfs or goblins or whatnot, that one day decide to make our shards their new home.
At a trading station you would find a personal bank box, just like a normal bank where you can fill and redeed commodity deeds.
At a trading station, you would be able to list a filled commodity deed up for sale, with a set price. You would also be able to enter a "buy order" for other goods transferrable via commodity deeds.
The kind elves/dwarves/whatnots would supply us with an up-to-date list of every commodity deed for sale, anywhere in the world. From that list, any player can choose to purchase commodity deeds from other players, using the elves as brokers. After a purchase, you'd have to travel to the correct trading station to pick up your purchase if it was listed for sale at another trading station.
The same list would also show the active "buy orders" for commodities. A player could then decide to sell a commodity deed directly to the buy order. A buy order would be valid for only one trading station, making players have to travel to that station to sell, as well as perhaps spanning the entire shard or parts of the shard (Ilsh, Trammel, Fel etc).
This kind of system would finally let us, the players, decide the fair price for any commodity.
Of course, a variation of this system is already in place, where the price on iron ingots, arrows & bolts, etc varies according to supply and demand - locally in each store. But there is no global view of the "set price" for each commodity making large scale trade impossible, or only possible through a large net of contacts.
If implemented, even cross-shard trading could be profitable. Imagine cleaning out all higher level ingots for sale in Atlantic and bringing them elsewhere.
Well that's my vision. Now bring out your sharp pencils and let me have it. Or not
