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ZergerBurgers

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Post Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:27 am

Transporter Market Abuse

The objective of the market is to offer/exchange minerals with other willing players. However, it's currently being used as a daycare center for excess resources. I don't think the transporter was intended for this purpose.

Players will post their offers and since the resources are posted to the market, they are safe from raids and storage limits; it defeats the purpose of the shifter, the biosphere, and the storage facility.

The best solution to the problem is to 'reserve' the resources to each person. Resources are not taken from a person until someone accepts the trade. Reserved resources cannot be spent of course, unless the offer is cancelled.

In summary: Providing a reserve method of resource exchange will weed out the serious traders from the people just looking to hide their resources from raids. Besides, there's already other methods of laundering money around, go use those instead.

Or...if this is a bad idea, do something! Bring Trading back to the Transporter!
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DanielJackson

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Post Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:20 pm

Re: Transporter Market Abuse

Agreed, this is kind of ridiculous, that amount of resources on the Market and not being able to be traded to boot should likely be changed.
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moro63

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Post Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:52 am

Re: Transporter Market Abuse

hmmm thats wat skyguy did in xeno as well and there's already a suggetion about this as well...
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ZergerBurgers

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Post Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:39 pm

Re: Transporter Market Abuse

I'm glad that I did not fall on deaf ears, and that it's a known quirk. Thanks for the response. Hopefully I added a little salience to the issue.
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Prism

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Post Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:36 pm

Re: Transporter Market Abuse

I would hope so...

Anyway, can we say skyguy is abusing the system again...Anyway, I think you would understand why I was mad when skyguy attacked under newbie protection...with a new account, or when he removes his colony costing lose of forces to others, so fourth and so fourth.
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JDub

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Post Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:00 pm

Re: Transporter Market Abuse

This is a problem that will increase as other players get bigger. Maybe they should introduce a new way to store lots resources like an intergalactic bank or storage depot. They could charge some interest on stored resources (like 1% a week or something) and 'account size' could go up as you upgrade levels. And then kick all the stored resources off the market. Just an idea.

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