Do we need to up the fee for FS/WTB? (in General)

I mean like 2k is nothing now. I could bump my posts every 4 hours for a paltry 12k.

Perhaps we need to increase the fee to something more annoying, like 25k per post/bump.

That way we are not forced to compete with those bumping every 2-3 hours.

i simply cannot afford that 25k I rather auction for 4 hours for much less than that.

Coming from the man who won the CB lottery twice?

You seriously could not afford 25k if you wanted to sell an item?

but if i get a katana then i 'd lose money selling it :D

One never sells a base katana via FS.

They either go to auctions or get sold to the store.

Mmmmm Wahm Burgers and French Cries. So tasty.

You want to up the fee for FS/WTB.... But get rid of the penalty to money....



No.

GW,

How do the 2 different circumstances relate to each other?

Why not just make a rule so that you can only bump once in 24 hours ?

Okay. Let me be fair then.


One really should think carefully about how fair it is to say that the cost of making a FS/WTB thread is too low (This would be an extra cash sink for players). But you're also saying that reducing the amount of money players have is unfair.....


Contradiction...

But, hey, let's use other grounds for why increasing the fee is bad.

1) Large scale sales can only be handled through FS/WTB and require multiple posts. Charging someone what could easily turn into 200-300k for a thread is silly.

2) How is this fair to players who aren't making these sort of threads often? Or players who can't just buy CB with USD? Random increase to a cash sink + 20% less money in one changemonth? I think not.

3) If someone wants to bump a friend 4 times a day for 12k, feel free. If you want to spend 4,380,000 a year on threads, feel free =D

First
The 2 idea have no interaction with each other. The 20% lowered cash rewards are needed given the fixed costs in the CB economy. Even though 20% seems not a lot, certainly less than 50%, it is the uncertainly of getting drops that is a huge problem when planning loans, upgrades to weapons, buying BA for a NCB.

This is a strategy type game and it is very difficult to play a strategy not knowing your positive cash flow.

Now to your points:

1) Ok, then how about a counter to my 25k and make it 10k instead. 25k was a number I just threw out there. You are right, perhaps it is too high. What about 10k?

2) If you do not make threads often, you do not pay a lot in fees. I think this is more a user tax instead of a CB lottery everyone is playing as it is now.

3) People do not bump every day. But there are some who bump every few hours when they are selling something. I try at least to be civil about things and give others a chance to have their items near the top of the forums. I know others do not care and bump their posts to the top for only 2k. But 2k is a pittance.

The 20% lowered cash rewards are needed given the fixed costs in the CB economy.

Should read:

The 20% lowered cash rewards are BAD given the fixed costs in the CB economy.

2k is an amount directed at how much they have. It will always be that way.

Seriously. If someone is selling 50 mil CB, nothing will be effective enough to stop them from posting when they want. And if they're selling something small, any larger amount would cut much more harshly into their profit.

Eh. Whatever. I think the price is fine. I don't see any reason to increase it (Because, remember, while you're penalizing the people who are rude and post to get to their's to the top, you penalize the people who refresh every 12 hours or so as is fair ; )

2k was the amount from the very beginning of CB.

There is a lot more money in the game now.

So should the fee have not rise already?

Or was 2k an arbitrary amount that never changed since people were never really aggressively bumping their posts until recently.

The highest amount of bumps in a FS/WTB post right now is 8 and that's from a huge sale.

The next highest is 4.

Yeah, crazy aggressive. Lay off the 'roids, guise and gallz.

3 in 8 hours seems a bit aggressive to me.

And stop being condescending as you are in chat. I made a proposal. If you do not like it, fine.

No need to START insulting me. As you like to do in chat so often.

Perhaps remove the fee and set a set time limit for bumping rules.
Perhaps every 8 hours?

Coding time limits into bumps could be a problem if someone needs to correct mistakes or update bids.

I just don't get why there's a negligible fee. Was there a previous problem with too many FS/WTB ads for items that aren't worth the 2k fee? Moreover, is there a reason to increase it now? The motivation for increasing it would be to limit useless ads that aren't worth the cost of the fee. There really aren't any spam ads up right now.

If the fees will go to TP, then fine, increase it to 10K. However, leave it at 2k for those in the new-player realm.

I insulted you? My bad.

... with the hit with the rewards, the 2k is actually worth more than before.

So this thread has already been quelled.

Nothing goes to TP except for items and cash from banned players.

The fee is in place because once upon a time a few people ruined FS/WTB and Jon thus laid the nerf hammer unto FS/WTB, and to add insult to injury, gave us a fee.

How is 2k a nerf hammer?

As I learned from me ranting on AoD. Wait until there is a problem, then complain about it. http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic_id=2 The only post there with 8 replies is Marlfox who is selling all his items.

people shouldn't bump all of their FS/WTB threads too often. When that happens, it's not bumping anymore but spam and admins still fine for spam afaik.

let me know if you think someone spams forum (can be done anonymously ;p)

It used to be 5k and you couldn't reply.

A bump limit is fine, however people would try to avoid it. Some people with large sales get a few bids per hour.

otherwise a raise from 2k to 5k perhaps will be a start?

FWIW, anything that encourages the use of auctions over threads is a Good Thing.

Really, NS?

Lower the AH fee and give player's their own stores for long term selling. I know that would make some of the econ players ecstatic. Could also get a new forge system with that (Forge something in someone else's inventory. Hooray.)


Probably impossible. But if you want to sell more than one or two things at once, FS/WTB is the only real system to use right now.

personal stores!?

Which, I'd like to point out, I never bumped, but posted updates on items that were being bid on. One or two frivolous posts, however.
Anyway, I don't see this being too big of a necessity right now. But, can't hurt, really.

i think that this would have absolutely no benefit to the game.

Ranger-You complain about the income being reduced, now you want to raise fees to post? I don't get that logic.

Also, personal stores would be awesome!! Jon should seriously think about that, it would make this game way cool. Look at Kingdom of Loathing, every player can have there own store and display case to show off there items, or hold unused items. There store they can set any prices for any item.

personal stores are too sensitive for scams. I would highly vote against them.