Rofii
Legacy Supporter 7
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2011
How about we have a [Merchant] tag for major shop owners and traders? I'm aware that with the release of heroes there will be a lot more chest shops, but the tag wouldn't be for anyone with a chest shop.. people would have to meet certain criteria such as having a large selection of items for sale and keeping those items in stock (at least most of the time).
Also, I remember Brutal asking in offtopic what people thought of staff-run shops that bought (but don't sell) certain materials that are needed for server projects. The responses were kind of mixed evenly between yay/nay so here is my proposition:
Rather than have staff run shops, how about the staff instead contract with these accredited merchants to buy the required materials. In other words if you needed a crapton of lapis blocks, the staff could place an order with the merchants and they would all raise the price at which they buy lapis from players by 10c (causing a surge in lapis sells to the merchants) and then the staff could purchase the lapis at an agreed upon price.
PS: To the people thinking that there will be far too many chest shops once heroes comes out for this to work, think of it this way: Everyone on the server builds a house but only a fraction are architects. Likewise, almost everyone on the server buys and sells goods at some point, but only a small fraction would be accredited [Merchant]s
Also, I remember Brutal asking in offtopic what people thought of staff-run shops that bought (but don't sell) certain materials that are needed for server projects. The responses were kind of mixed evenly between yay/nay so here is my proposition:
Rather than have staff run shops, how about the staff instead contract with these accredited merchants to buy the required materials. In other words if you needed a crapton of lapis blocks, the staff could place an order with the merchants and they would all raise the price at which they buy lapis from players by 10c (causing a surge in lapis sells to the merchants) and then the staff could purchase the lapis at an agreed upon price.
PS: To the people thinking that there will be far too many chest shops once heroes comes out for this to work, think of it this way: Everyone on the server builds a house but only a fraction are architects. Likewise, almost everyone on the server buys and sells goods at some point, but only a small fraction would be accredited [Merchant]s