Boards 2 - iConomy

Ponster

I'm not a builder but more of a miner and love the idea of a working iConomy service.

What though do people think are the items that they would want to see available for sale that they'd rather not mine/produce for themselves?

tools, food, ores or something more 'complicated' ?

With the lack of mobspawners is the most profitable stone gonna stock strings, bonemeal, sulpher, etc...?

BlandKitten

I think that shops will be set up as the demand requires them :P

gavmcg92

Items that will be sought after will be the things that are rare eg colored wool, string, sulpher, bone, arrows, diamonds, iron, lapus etc

Shiminay

Here's a better idea, as things get going, why don't we use this thread to put requests in for shops and when we see a lot of interest in certain items, we can create a shop for it.

gavmcg92

Most items will be on sale from the official shops that will be managed by Admins. The idea for "unofficial" shops that are created by users is to encourage competition. It will be interesting to see who will charge the cheapest for a particular item.

Ponster

IMHO as long as anyone who may have commands such as '/get' don't use them to provide infinite supplies in their store we'll be fine

I really don't think that there'll be a need for 'official' shops and if we have them then they should charge more than 'market' prices to allow someone else to move in and compete.

gavmcg92

Ponster wrote: »

I really don't think that there'll be a need for 'official' shops and if we have them then they should charge more than 'market' prices to allow someone else to move in and compete.

Official shops will be present in this server as for the fact that they will always be in stock. The official shops are mainly for full stacks of items that an "unofficial" might only have what the owner could get. So these shops will be important for a person, for examlpe, who needs a full stack of red wool for his house. Having these "official" shops will also help iconomy. Like I said the rates will be fixed so if the buyer wants a better price he can then go on a bargain hunt around users shops.

Cossax

Is there not the worry that it'll all become redundant as people just give what others need?

Shiminay

Well if they do that, we'll just have to remove the plug-in and say a giant thank you everyone for making us (ok, mostly cherryghost) waste our time configuring the mod in the first place

gavmcg92

Cossax wrote: »

Is there not the worry that it'll all become redundant as people just give what others need?

Obviously, us admins, cannot force people to use it. However the system is easy to use with the chests and I think that money, on this map, will become the new diamonds. Everyone will want as much as they can get.

cherryghost

As said in the first post of the other thread, creating towns with perks will cost money, a lot of money. So its a good system to use either way.