User blog:Blupo/The Market Concept

Not to be confused with the Market, a page with recommended values for trading. This is more in-depth from the original concept blog.

With the way trades currently work, it's difficult to find trades without having to rummage through hundreds of comments, many of which whose items will have already been sold or bought by someone else.

Also, you never know what you'll find in those comments. Perhaps you'll find a Valikaze for sale, or maybe you'll find a Crafter's Outfit. But if you're not looking for either of those things, rummaging through comments seems kind of pointless.

But Blupo, what about Discord? Discord is basically the same thing as rummaging through comments, but it's real-time.

What about DMs? ... DMs don't have anything to do with what I'm talking about.

But what about— Well if you don't want to listen to my suggestion then you can just go on now.

Centralized Trading The Market is based on the idea that trading should be centralized. You shouldn't have to copy-paste what you're selling every time you make a comment about it.

This obviously means that your trades should exist in one place.

The Market The Market is my implementation of what centralized trading would look like on the wiki.

There are two central parts to the Market: sales and purchases. Sales seem to be more prevalent than purchaes, but they are both havles of a trade. People byy what people sell.

Trade Hubs & Trade Pages Trade hubs are the central listing of trade pages. They show who's trading what, and when the page was last updated.

A Potential Problem Should the Market be introduced and many people start using it, there could be an extremely long list of trading pages. I haven't thought of an elegant way to solve this problem yet.

Trade pages are where you would list your trades. There are two types of trading pages for sales and purchases, as well as two trade hubs. This is because it makes it easier for people to find places to buy or sell items.

Trade Talk In most cases, you'll want to use comments to talk to people sbout trades. Anyone can use a comment, so everyone has an opportunity to trade. You could use talk pages, but those have a learning curve that many people won't want to deal with. Unless that's what you're going for.

Rules The Market would still be bound by the Guidelines, but it would have its own rules as well.

Perhaps, its own Guidelines?

Demo

Poll Just like last time. Same exact poll too.

Do you think that the Market is a good idea? Yes No In theory