Vean

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  1. I just realised I'm playing Wurm a bit too long perhaps...
  2. Make them auctioneers instead, I've written about that idea w while ago. Paste from my original post from 4 years back. Posted by Vean on 31 January 2010 - 01:07 AM in Town Square I dug my very old suggestion i made long time ago... Wurm Auction and Auctioneers What Auctioneers are ? Auctioneers are a NPC owned by players performing for them service, acting as a portal for server wide auction system. Why having Auctioneers is a good idea ? - players have better access to wider offer of items they need, especially new players can equip themselves easier with cheap medium quality items. Crafters and hunters have access to the customers. - auctioneers will offer more fair market with more balanced prices much more close to real free market environment - auctioneers will offer another way to invest and spend money in-game creating rich and more complete gaming experience. - more money is taken out of the game creating a financial lever (more money for future development) How fees are calculated ? The main idea of auction is to be public therefore prices cannot be too high. Auctioneer writ should cost 1-2 gold coins at the trader. Putting an item on auction should cost no more than 1c coin, making possible to sell also lower quality items/many items and preventing auction to be spammed with useless not wanted items. From this 1c half would go to auctioneer writ owner and other half to the king as tax. Person selling items on auction would also be charged with 10% tax (same as with merchants) but also this money would be shared between writ owner and the king fifty-fifty. For example selling a 70ql sword with price of 80 copper coins will actually cost 1 copper coin plus 8 copper fee if the sword will be sold within auction time. That will bring a profit of: - 71 copper for the seller - 4,5 copper for the auctioneer writ owner - 4,5 copper for the king With the amount of items being bought and sold each day the profit should be high. Also initial money flow (writ purchases) should be high offering money boost for the time spent on implementing the auctioneer feature and by draining some in-game money off the game should stimulate silver purchases. How auction work ? Any item can be sold on auction. - item for sale with minimal price and item is bided till auction end - item for sale with minimal price and item is bided till auction end and buy now option - item for sale only with buy now option (minimal price = buy now price) - purchase order for people looking for certain items offering certain amount of money for them (future option for development) What limits and mechanics ? - interface should be made using different technology that is available currently in Wurm Online, making it possible for more interactive use. Current system is not efficient enough. - it should be possible for auction to be viewed from the web as it is best way to promote selling and buying items this way. - time for item to be placed on auction should be limited to 14 days (7 days seems too less with the current playerbase). - seller should be able to monitor his auction and be able to remove the item from the auction (maybe even from the web ?) - since there should be no limit for items put on auction there should be a code that will highlight a items with price much higher than other items (using auction as a storage or transfer medium between alts/kingdoms). - auction should be same and available for all kingdoms offering fair free market. - auctions should be isolated for each separate server - bought and not sold items should be placed in bank - sold item should receive the location tag, different time of delivery should be applied depending on the distance between auctioneers. Formula should be something like: time needed to travel between auctioneers x 4 - one auctioneer should be allowed in 150-200 tiles radius to avoid situation when larger towns roads will be crowded with them Free connected ideas - when the auction system will be fully implemented it can swap current trader system that currently is useless for 95% of the population, writs and special can be placed as permanent auctions. - auctions can be a great medium to propagate gifts, special event items etc. - because of the all servers are pay to play now bank storage space should be raised to at last 50 slots to offer better compatibility with new auction system. If players will want to prevent items decaying they will find some other way like merchant contracts or alts. - changed interface technology will allow for further improvements like more dynamic data fetching and scalability - decay rate on the items can be slightly (up to 10%) increased for all items when auction will be in place. Vean Just keep in mind that people paid some coins for there merchants as they were the coins fountains and some will expect to be reimbursed with something.
  3. Hello Rolf, Could you tell more about those changes?
  4. Why you want to watch me in game you pervert?
  5. Server move

    That's best choice IMO due to recent events. Take your time to do it right tho please
  6. Disable GLSL and Multidraw, stuff looks uglier but works well (for me at least). Lights do work different indeed.
  7. WHAT WOULD I DO WITH ALL THIS TIME!? nothing good i guess....
  8. Amazing idea, why do I do not charge!? WHY?
  9. Good i managed to finish mine in time
  10. 72 virgins...

    Everyone knows that silver earned at Led-Mart goes to Al-Queida suicidal troopers training camp. Most of the trainees is finishing the training after first exorcise tho.
  11. Login Server down

    Same here, cannot log in.
  12. I was wondering about getting some medium brand tablet, but I'm worried it would not be able to run Wurm for me
  13. Game Back Online!

    Nice. Shop at Led-Mart!
  14. Slow Connection

    Yeah I'm going to try again in few hours when things settle up! Thanks Rolf. Shop at Led-Mart when you can!
  15. Cannot access anything, inventory etc, just lagging with a bit world loaded. Trees grew a bit tho, not sure if everything else also is catching up with decay etc.
  16. Good to see things rollin again.
  17. I just realized my project looks like sad chicken. DO NOT BUILD DO NOT BUILD
  18. General idea for 96 carpentry building. Inside and outsides can be arranged as required.
  19. Still, most of map will be scorched sooner or later if this is in wrong hands. Great deal of damage. What I i see more usable would be a barrel that refil 1kg of water per minute called "The Spring of Led"
  20. It's OK, I just wonder what price they will get on non PVP cluster
  21. Could you add ql of them to the topic? The picture won't display for me (firewall). Thanks in advance.