Hi guys I would like to offer some feed back on the trading channel. I really do think there needs to be some sort of education or some kind of command that stops the players doing what they are doing lol I know that makes no sense let me explain.
I noticed there is a lot of what people call Price Jacking going on and scamming new players. I noticed for the past hour and a half tonight a certain player has had a offer up on the trade channel right at the very top so it is always one of the first couple of offers you see and he is offering 400 marble for 80coins even though we all know that 400 marble ranges from 18-30coins. This guy is hoping that people either miss read and think he is offering 80 coins for the 400 marble or that a new player who does not know the worth of resources will make the trade. It is not fare to the new players who do not have many coins and are just learning how to manage the economics of the game yet. Maybe there could be a thread that lists all resources and roughly what they are worth either in coins or other resources. That way a new player can check 1st if 80coins is a fair price for the 400 marble and also how is this player getting his offer at the top over and over again? Is there no way of stopping this?
Yesterday one of my friends who started playing last week and has just build her branch office, I warned her not to pay too much for resources and to see if I could help her first, but yesterday I was offline a few hours and she needed some marble so she looks on the trade channel and see's what she think is 38coins for 400 marble and thinks thats not toooo many coins and makes the offer only to find out it was stone and not marble and as she was new and they both look rather similar she made the mistake but I believe that player was trying to trick the new players in to thinking they were getting marble. She did not trade again on the channel and does not plan to until she has watched it for a few days.
I know there are changes in place for the future of the trade channel but surely we can put in some safe measures now?
sorry for the rant but it has been bugging me for a while now.