… i will never ever exchange my gems, gems i bought with hard earned money…
ah, so you’re saying that if i want to buy something quite expensive i need to waste about a year of farming just to get it?
oh and btw, when i buy gems and exchange it for gold i earn it just as much, the difference is that the exchange is screwing the real money payers and promoting the gold farmers, the one thing Anet should reverse.
If you never use gems -> gold anyways, why does this bother you? In any case, you can farm gold either in game, or in real life. Decision is yours.
If you think system is “promoting the gold farmers”, then why don’t you farm gold yourself in game, since it encouraged so much? However, you contradict yourself saying “i need to waste about a year”, so you also think that farming gold takes a long time.
Expensive things usually take effort to get. The type of effort varies from player to player.
It would be interesting to see if this was implemented, and if there were enough people who are tired with “1c undercutting”. Like others have suggested, I’d think prices would increase instead of decreasing. Buy orders would be set to “nice and round” numbers (e.g. 2.50, 10.00, 150.00 etc), because those orders would be filled faster, and would be cheaper than 2.49, 9.49 and 149.00.
Again, since there would be enough people who are happy to buy for 5.00, 20.00 and 250.00 instead of an arbitrary 229.49, we might see a slight upward shift on both sides of the price. Would everyone be happy then? No. We would see more threads, where players are bashing TP barons, greed of others, inflation and whatever else.
Even though this curiosity would be interesting, I don’t want to see limited resources spent on this change – not before TP UI is reworked.
I wouldnt recommend players to spam chat trying to sell items. Not only can they be ripped off, it’s also violating game rules and they can be reported and, depending on the severity, banned for it.
I do understand this. However, it is quite apparent that VideoGamermike (and to some extent, OP too) does not want to use TP at all, because it is not working in a manner he and “entire maps” would prefer. Since TP is out of the question, this leaves very few ways for trade. Unfortunately, these ways will inevitably result in unwanted actions and behaviour.
I see it as a price and risk one must take, if he/she does not want to use safe and efficient TP.
Short of reworking the TP, only viable option is to form the aforementioned guild. That would be mildly interesting experiment; they would become a conglomerate of “anti-TP-barons”, who would only trade with and between very limited group of people (I highly doubt that even combined, they would have power to lower the price of any good to what they deem “fair price”). While this kind of trade is extremely inefficient, resulting in severe scarcity of great amount of goods, it would allow them to have full control of the price.
And then, soon or very soon, someone would take an advantage of this, and relist all the items to TP with ~market price.
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I keep buying up all dusks on the tp since feature patch to build an iron throne for my flying mount.
I’m buying them to build a throne to myself.
992 Dusks bought & reforged, still missing 8.
