Market crash

what would happen if the market did reset? people still wouldnt buy resources at high prices. it would just drop again. and if people have resources in the market now and the market reset, but didnt have enough room in there warehouse to retrieve it, the resources will dissapear.

Also, there is little incentive to buy from market as you could just as easily farm a fort, an inactive, or someone you don't like. I myself haven't bought any resources on the market since the task that requires it. With the tech prices so high and the market prices so low, I need to save every penny I have to upgrade.

Also, there is little incentive to buy from market as you could just as easily farm a fort, an inactive, or someone you don't like. I myself haven't bought any resources on the market since the task that requires it. With the tech prices so high and the market prices so low, I need to save every penny I have to upgrade.

all i do is buy crop... or try to raise the price. Serverwide effort=...(drumroll) one day for high prices!

[P1MPMAN]

You can help the market by wiping out as many ppl's armies as you can

You can help the market by wiping out as many ppl's armies as you can

or getting ppl to help you starve everyone with a low price

I believe the real issue here is that people need to make more money for upgrading tech and/or purchasing other resources and can't make the money because 1) forts don't give you a lot of money and 2) the market prices are low ..... So I don't think they really want the market reset (which would do nothing) - they're really asking for a new/different way to make money.

Ideas:

* add cost to post & expire postings
the market could easily be fixed by adding a minimum charge to sell a product on the market, and expire the listing at a certain date (like 7 days from listing time). This would cut down on extraneous postings that stay up for months, and also drive up the minimum price items sell for (it would be a lot harder to sell 449,000 stone at 0.01 if it costs 10k for that posting, for example). the cost could be fixed (which would raise the min price to a fixed point), or based on quantity/relative-unit-worth

* min price change
change the minimum prices (and remove items below that line and above max line). Like, the cheapest you can now sell resources for is 0.10 each.

* fewer resources
there are way tooo many resources available. high levels have multipe cities at all max resources plus tech upgrades and already CREATE enough resources to crash a market (there is no balance - early on a server, there are no high level players with maxed cities. over time, there are lots) plus the outrageously easy-to-obtain resources at unowned forts. there needs to be balance. either lower resources per "thing" (oasis, upgraded resource, fort, etc), or sliding scale on earnability as you rank up to prevent oversaturation (or as someone was able to repeat jargon they heard on TV, "supply and demand" - duh) of the market over time.