MeepTraders

Dockson

I dont expect price fixing or collusion among shop owners. I do expect shop owners to figure out how to generate the most profit possible on whatever their item or items of choice is.
With this system, there will be huge risks taken by those who choose to buy access to the traders, and with all risks we try to minimize the potential damage and maximize the potential upside. To me, the easiest and fastest way to do that would be for shop owners to trim their buy prices. I could be way off in my thinking, but it seems like the most logical line of thought in this type of scenario.
On a different, but related topic. You mention that both trader and access prices are subject to change. Would this be linked in some way? Example: Halfway through the month both drop by 15% It would feel pretty rough to have work, school, family obligations, or some other reason to not log in the first day of the month and miss out on the original trader prices but still have to pay the original access price.
I only saw Onis post that items were going to be picked by admins, but nothing about how. Did i miss it somewhere?
~ @semiblind

"and each price will be carefully picked dependent on the current market and subject to change as the month continues"

Hornemans

This is a good replacement for the Admin Shop!

However I can tell you more then 2 items every month will be necessary, realistically more like 5-10 different items/traders will be necessary. I think the price of 500k per month is a very "fair" price! Don't lower it just look at all the people with 10m or more they can all afford to do it!

I also read the "Delivery" Thread and its a good addition as well to Meepcraft!

Thanks for all your hard work Onis,
and remember if you need help with this, my "Admin/Management" position is always waiting for your approval!

~Hornemans

danwoods5

+1 Great idea

Mylucky7

I see complaints about this.

But, myself, I don't know what to think.

Cookies713

If you don't mind, I'd like like to go into a little more detail about I'd like it to work.

Shop, Display
Place the shop at spawn, with the traders being villagers. The villagers name could be what they are buying + the price, ie 'Sand - $5'. These villagers are placed in clear view of all, but behind glass, so that people can determine whether or not it is worth it the buy the ticket. ~~Also, make the ticket price 10-20%, maybe even 40% of the players bal.~~ Scratch that, thats not going to work.
Ticket
Buying the ticket, you right click on a sign saying 'Buy Access' or something, but due to the exorbitant price it will say in chat 'Are you sure you want to buy a ticket? Say no/yes' this will prevent people from accidentally buying a rather expensive thing. Also, the ticket will be a piece of paper named 'Trade Access Ticket' or some such, and it will have the Lore 'Valid only for ', as though this will require a bit of coding it will prevent thefts.
Selling
Selling itself requires the player the right-click the Trader to sell 1 item, left click to sell a stack, and (maybe) shift right click to sell all they have of the item in their inventory.

These are just some suggestions, but I feel it would make it easier to use/navigate.

hippapajo

I have 1 question.
What if the admins don't do this on time. Like a lot of things.

That won't happen. The items will be picked weeks before the month ends, and it will be the server that replaces them when the month finishes.
~ @Coelho

Or better-
Onis & Co decide on like six or so months' prices and items in advance :3

KaiUsesThis

Seems a little too complex. Generally, complex things don't work out as well compared to simple things.

-1 Simplify it

SirCallow

I am confused. Are all villagers going to be like this? Or is it just a thing in LagSpawn?

Jinkeloid

Staff should understand one thing: You can't never stop anyone to make money. Basically, there's never an equality between rich people and poor people, only active players who know how to make money and lazy players who don't know anything and always begging!

epick8

I'm very interested in the idea and its quite creative.
So an access pass buys only a month into the meeptrader's area?
Do you have an idea of how many items will be up for sale with these traders?
Possible suggestion if the answer to that is yes: Make there a "deal" of sorts. ex: 500k = 1month 850k = 2 months , 135k = 3 months, etc, etc. releases the burden on how much money will be taken out of the eco.

Im envisioning this playing out in a few different ways. I'm not too sure while will play out though.
Traders want 1 stack of sand for 1k. base eco at the time was 1.5k per stack. price of sand collectively from buyers go down almost overnight because thats what they are willing to buy at. Price shifts to meet that line. Month passes, then what? Will the price of it shoot back up to normal or will it stay where it was? Its impossible to know what will happen. This might cause a lot of confusion in pricing and the publics reaction to this could have backlash.

Great idea. But... imagine this situation.
The traders come and are buying, say, gold ingots for 100 Meebles. All the rich players will start to hoard the gold ingots for anything bellow those 100 Meebles. I would imagine in a day, the stock of gold ingots will be all held by the rich players ready to be sold to the traders or... put an amazingly high price for the ingots and start selling them to the regular player base.
I do believe that this system is better than our actual one, but only time and gameplay would really tell, I guess.
~ @Dockson

Your scenerio doesnt exactly make sense. Im going to pretend its not gold in this case because there is a separate market for gold thanks to bank.
Doing it with diamonds, 1) So what if they hoard diamonds? If people choose to sell to them, then that is their choice. I dont understand the negative aspect of them holding these items. They sell it to the traders and the items are gone. 2) if they decide to sell to the player base, who is gunna buy it for extremely high prices? There are other shops. Like what is the point ur scenerio is trying to make, so i can better understand.

Landonator419

Is this going to happen?

cooey

question? Would you have to pay 500k every month? Or would it be unlimited.

if its unlimited, I'm a +1

DarkThunderz

You should also make it when you buy something from the Meep delivery you will be able to see a donkey appear then goes in front of you and they he drops the items or you look inside the donkey and it has the items in there once everything is taken out the donkey will leave and disapear (you could also name the Donkey "Meep Delivery"

Suggested by DarkThunderz & NewZealandMaroi

builderjunkie012

accepted for interview

iiwars

-1, this sounds horrible. The rich will just get richer. The poor will just stay poor. Same ol' Meep.

builderjunkie012

-1, this sounds horrible. The richer will just get richer. The poor will just stay poor. Same ol' Meep.
~ @iiwars

The point is to force meebles to change hands through chest shops with the chance of profit for the rich so the poor get to sell their items for a good amount while the rich can still make a profit

iiwars

The point is to force meebles to change hands through chest shops with the chance of profit for the rich so the poor get to sell their items for a good amount while the rich can still make a profit
~ @builderjunkie012

We can already sell all our items for good prices. It just like what happened on old V-Shop where Alien_Venom bought over 10,000 diamonds all the time. Then Fuzzlr would do his monthly buy every diamond under 1000 thing and he'd make millions.

builderjunkie012

We can already sell all our items for good prices. It just like what happened on old V-Shop where Alien_Venom bought over 10,000 diamonds all the time. Then Fuzzlr would do his monthly buy every diamond under 1000 thing and he'd make millions.
~ @iiwars

shhh sjoe needs a way to take money out of the eco

vrohan

Why was Vshop taken away??

iiwars

shhh sjoe needs a way to take money out of the eco
~ @builderjunkie012

He actually adding money you moron.

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