Perpetuality Trading House Now Open

[LoloMo]

BTW you can sell gems or gold also, for example:

Nation: MA Ermor
Selling: Death Gems (20)
Price: Dwarven Hammer
Except: MA Marignon
Start: Turn 3
Status: Sold to LA R'lyeh, items sent awaiting payment.

[Evilhomer]

so, when can i expect my hammer and gems ?


on a serious note, this sounds like a nice idea guys, it will keep the original thread from growing to large. As for the price of things i hope you can list several options with AND/OR. Also when you list a request to buy an item how will that work ? obviously you might not know what the potential seller might need, so can you leave that blank or what?

[LoloMo]

Yep you can put and/or, but you can't leave the price or the item to be sold blank, or have some vagueness to it, because that would lead to negotiations which would clutter up the thread. Request to buy without a price can probably be put in the original thread.

Remember that even with this current system, if each player has only one item to sell within the first 15 turns, and assuming one buying response only, that's 124 posts already.

However, we can probably allow something like:

MA Ermor WTB Dwarven hammer, PM me to negotiate price.

(WTB means "want to buy", WTS means "want to sell") then the price negotiation is handled off this thread; there will be no public reply to your request.

[atul]

LoloMo said:MA Ermor WTB Dwarven hammer, PM me to negotiate price.

I'd like to see that format allowed also, brings some flexibility to the system. Also it would make sure that people not spending 90% of their days browsing these forums would get a shot at buying something.

Also, would the following be ok'ed?

MA Ermor Selling Dwarven Hammer, PM your offer in death gems, minimum price 20, the best offer arriving within 24h accepted.

Uh, maybe it just was the course I took in the auction theory, but that should form efficient markets (the one who values the item most gets it while seller gets the best value for his sell). Or is it too complex?

[LoloMo]

Yup I think that should be ok, since the prospective bids will be handled off the thread by PM only.

Maybe more posts will be along this line, you'll probably get better prices, but the time to complete the transaction will probably be longer.

[BigDisAwesome]

I agree with you atul. That seems the best way to do it to me.

[atul]

I just realized that if the bids are kept secret and the seller gives the item to the highest bidder, the system I proposed works as the mercenary recruiting scheme. D'oh, there goes the originality. *g* Of course there are all the possibilities of favoring certain candidates over others when everything's secret, but these (imagined) slights are probably best resolved in the game thread.