it is only make it annoying for people to buy stuff without giving any positive game play experience.
can i afford the azoth? yes
does it make the game more fun to play? no, it is just simply adding extra unncessary traveling
does it really do anything for economy? no, because people will still sell at trading hub. the remoted settlement still won’t get the tax. price is still centralized and normalized at hub.
here is a problem for remote settlement:
no trading tax = less income
no income = no upgrade and upkeep payment
no upgrade = no crafter
no crafter = no one need to buy stuff in that settlement
no buyer = no one want to sell stuff there
no seller = no trade
no trade, no craft = dead settlement
basically that settlement will just die. you are not making any locallzied economy. those settlement are simply just going to die.
At the current Game condition, separated Trading House shouldn’t be implemented in this game.
Separated Trading Post should be something that exist in road map, after they tweak the balance of resource in this game, improved on how resource used on crafting system and Improve the coding so more players can be accommodated in each server.
Two things that separated Trading Post is not working right at the moment,
Lack of server capacity. The server capacity is roughly 2250 players. This is small for an MMORPG. One of the reason there is only 2 active markets is because the population can only support 2 active markets.
Balance of resource. Wealth distribution and player distribution is closely linked. Players gather in WW and EF, because WW and EF are rich in resource. This need to be rebalanced.
2.1. I suggest that starting area only have small node of resource and Higher level area have large node of resource. The way rawhide work, that larger level animal provide more hide.
2.2. “This Land is My Land” Make heavy penalty on gathering resource on area where your faction is not the ruling faction. Like 50% penalty of resource gathered.
Even if the server was filled… You’d have 2000 people, spread over several towns responsible for the ‘economy’.
The player count per server is way too small to spread markets over several towns, not to mention many server now have very few players on them, I can only imagine how their market prices look.
Players are leaving because there are way to many pointless time syncs in this game, at least, the ones I’ve talked to.
I personally have the same opinion, and I thing merging the markets into one global market is one small step into the right direction.
Hmm, I would add another factor that cause wealth to be distributed in WW and EF.
Lack of Mobility. Cost of recall using Azoth when your inventory is full is too high. I know, azoth is easy to get, just do outpost rush, etc. But, they are still significant when the cost if 400+ azoth per recall. Reduce mobility = reduce wealth transport. Increased mobility = more distributed wealth. I suggest reducing cost of Azoth by 75% for transport. That will be a safer fix than linking trading post.
in real world one major reason to spread out is jobs. jobs attract population, and population build a community, which build up trades and local economy. also limited number of jobs will restrict number of population growth and people who need to seek jobs when local have no jobs will move to another town. that’s how spreading work
in game, we don’t have local jobs. there is no reason for us to stay in one place. also teleport make it easy to move to another place so players can just pick one place as their home and they can go anywhere.
so “local” economy isn’t really going to work unless they do massive overhaul
Being lazy isn’t the same as not wanting to spend you whole play session walking from an outlaying region to a trading hub. Global trade hubs let people better manage playtime with doing what they want in regions they want rather then walking from point a to b or grinding azoth to be able to afford to travel .
They can leave the auction the way it is. as long as the trading post allows trading amongst all the settlements. With an interlinked trading post system I have no issues with what they do to the auction halls. Can’t ever find them anyways
This local trading post system would be good if resources weren’t spread across the map as much as they are now and they increased the fast travel cost when lugging more than your bodyweight. Right now I have no incentive to just buy a house in Windsward, farm my mats somewhere else and cheaply teleport back to WW to sell.
And how would the linked AH change anything to you ase a trader in this case?
This makes no sense man.
If you are trading with people with lower price than the market anywhere. With the linked market system, people will still travel to you to trade for the lower price.
How does this system affect you?
