Quote Originally Posted by GuideRaguel View Post
Hello everyone,

Myself and the Developers are following this thread, and I must say we are quite surprised at some of the posts here.

We originally thought that players wanted less and less involvement from the guide team, and also wanted us to stop the taxi service that players were getting to and from the Trade fair to encourage a more immersive and realistic gameplay.

Going forward, our goal is to hand over the Trade Fair Market to the community 100%, safe for the Announcements for them, which we would do.

Now reading through the posts it appears to us that your main concerns are weight and encumbrance.

Since our Goal is to hand this over, and not teleport players to the Markets, and keeping this in mind we would love to have some feedback on a few points...

  • What would you normally carry with you (including numbers if you can), on a single trip to the Trade fair in which you get ported to?


  • Baring in mind that different items have their own weights, What would you consider being a reasonable number of items to carry in a cart, before it becomes to energy draining? Try to give examples please.


  • Lastly, what would you suggest we can alter to carts or the characters, that would encourage you to trade the normal way, and not rely on a teleport to do the trading?


We would be very interested to hear what you have to say about this, and we will take all your feedback into consideration.

Thank you for your feedback so far.
Raguel,

I'd expect to do the following as far as self travel goes:

At least put one full basket of any material into a cart and travel normally. Seriously I know bricks, metal and wood is heavy but for the purposes of trading they're not necessarily worth much and perhaps weight should be more proportional to value otherwise masons & wood crafters are not going to become very wealthy traders. Infact, I can see them getting bored and rage quitting.

Carts themselves need to be more flexible. I need to be able to drop them and reconnect on tribe land. If I happen to trade the basket of materials for another cart then the second cart might have to go top of the cart I bought along in the first place or be represented in some other fashion. As a wainwright I would be selling up to 3 or 4 carts in a trade fair session. What am I supposed to do now? make 4 lightning trips???

When you get materials to the fair then why can't we have the facility to rent storage from the host tribe by looking at the permissions again without inclusion of the hosts friends or whatever.

Also the terrain isn't really that cart friendly. We need those totem extensions so can build our own bridges and tidy the roads up etc.

Really think you should give the ability to host and attend trade fairs properly before taking away the teleport services.