trade A simple trade addition

Tallios · April 28, 2019

Have a "Bulk Merchant NPC".

NPC would only purchase or sell goods in "full stacks"
NPC would maintain a set inventory of materials that is shared by whole free-port zone.
NPC would maintain a market price of goods based on volume of trade.
Goods prices would be adjusted accordingly; Sales would be +20%, Purchases would be -20% of market price.
When interacting with the Merchant the initial information will be a Transaction Quote.
Transactions would be placed in a queue, to prevent abuse.
When the transaction end of queue it gives actual prices and a 15 second timer to accept.

This could be started with a very simple implementation, by only allowing the generic versions of each item;

Please consider this. It would really add a huge boost to the game with honestly MINIMAL EFFORT.

It would:

...It would give a baseline for ALL in-game trading.
...It would allow any player who wanted to be any kind of merchant a starting point.
...allow captains a place to stock up on materials in a safer place.
...drive the sailing and adventure of the game without hours of grinding.
...allow for a somewhat smooth movement of money from gold-makers to material-producers
...encourage people to interact more, not flee from each other in the water.
...bridge the gap between large companies and small.

Edited April 28, 2019 by Tallios

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