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Trading Between Players

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Brujah:
Nowadays, with such small community, you have to be pretty stupid to get scammed unless you're an particular target.


The player is either a low speecher whom shouldn't be trusted in the first place and be forced to give his part of bargain first or a known player who most likely did business with others.


Plus the idea of an auctioneer in the middle of a wasteland if just ugh...

falloutdude:

--- Quote from: JovankaB on February 03, 2013, 06:27:30 pm ---I think such auctioneer, if implemented, should take like 40% of the money.
So you could risk for better price or go to auctioneer to sell for less but safely.

--- End quote ---
players could just go back to forum then. If i lose 40% of my profit I would rather take the risk. Most people have a gang or friends with can watch their back. I would agree with 10% but 40 is over the top.

Vindict:
good suggestion, as long as it won't be equally profitable. Doing the trading yourself should be rewarded with more profit.

chocolate_chip_cookies:
I don't think players should have to go on forum to play the game. And forum traders are always the same small bunch of people. So yeah I think there should be in-game solution like dat

Giftless:
Another way might be to have trade goods attached to your account, similar to the system gaia online uses. Gaia essentially has a "persistent" barter window where each side can add items or come to an agreement whenever they log in.

To translate it into fonline terms, perhaps the thing to do would be to have a special trading box. The items you put into it would disappear and spawn in the other player's box, and vice-versa, once the deal was agreed upon.

Though something like this is mainly a boon to players trying to take trades from the forum to in-game, if players are already in-game the benefits are fairly minimal (I gotta chuckle at Jovanka's suggestion to make the auctions "harsh," because it's easy as it stands to break large deals into multiple transactions and therefore minimize the risk.)

Now another interesting point is would an auctioneer or trading box have a carry weight restriction? Some people might be willing to pay 15% if there was a convenience factor, such as being able to transfer massive amounts of junk without having to make multiple trips. Just imagine that you're renting a U-haul truck from NCR with armed guards and how much that would cost. There could even be different rates based on the amount of goods traded.

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