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Layonara Server / selling items through LORE?
« on: January 08, 2006, 06:07:00 am »
Here's an idea:  Could we do actual selling of items through LORE?  Here's how I imagine the interface would work:

First, a table is generated on a new Items tab for a PC.  It would have a checkbox indicating it was for sale and a text field where the price would be entered. These items would then show up on a new "public market" LORE page where they could be bought online.

Prices:  The issue of pricing would arise, as it often does in the forums for auctions.  Several options:  1) Develop a formula for the database that sets the prices appropiately for high end items, leaving basic things (herbs, etc.) to market forces.  2) Eliminate the high end items completely (put a level limit on items that can be sold).  3) Have the system learn what a good price is by logging the highest price paid for an object over time.

Auctions:  One possible solution to pricing is to have simple auctions.  A price is set by the seller and on the "public market" page there is a "bid" button that add 10% to the displayed price.

Fees:  Taxes could be levied against the seller.

Perhaps I'd finally get those hickory shafts!

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Trade and Market Hall / Wanted: shafts of hickory, small casting molds
« on: January 04, 2006, 07:08:00 am »
Grabbing the passing halfing by the scruff of the neck, the half-giant carries him over to the message board in Hlint.  Feet dangling limply, the wee fellow quickly reaches beneath his cloak and withdraws a lavendar-scented bag of herbs.  Rolling his eyes, he presses the pouch against his nose.

"Pig!" A muffled cry escapes from the halfing. "If you're going to collect goblin ears, at least have the sense to scrape the other parts off of yourself.  Now put me down."

Koppig plops the fellow down in front of the board, patting him on the back with a thump.  "Yous is smarts," he says, pressing a dirty hand against the note-covered board. "Yous writer for Pig."

Rolling his eyes again, the halfling turns to the board and finds an old note to write on the back of.  "Alright, what are you after."

"You writings this:  Pig is lookering fors maker things.  Is maker throw axes for good smash.  Is hear needer shafts of hickory and littles for mold metals.  Pig not have lot shinies but strong for carry and smash."  Pig swings his maul along the ground as he says this, nearly sweeping the halfling off of his feet.

"Careful with that!" Skipping out of the way, the halfing continues to write for a moment before tacking the note up onto the board.  It reads:


Sirs and madams, the large brute known as "Pig" is seeking the components necessary to craft throwing axes.  Those with skill at shaping shafts of hickory and forming small molds, please seek him out.  (If you have sandpaper, you might suggest he keep some on hand for you wood workers.  I'm sure he'd welcome metals for smelting as well.)  He has few coins but offers instead his strong back and smashing ability.


((ooc:  If there are basic crafters out there looking for an outlet for their items, do seek me out.  It would be very OOC for my PC, Koppig Varken, to do too much crafting.  There seems to be enough carpenters and tinkers so stop by if you wish to ply your craft for an appreciative player.  Thanks!

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General Discussion / Economy? What economy?
« on: December 22, 2005, 05:49:00 am »
I continue to see references here to an "economy," with sellers of items getting grief over pricing their goods.  Perhaps this lense-of-pricing could be agreed upon as the gold standard?  That way there wouldn't ever be an OOC issue with prices.  Would make a good hook for an RP blackmarket too on items that are mis-priced, etc.

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Development Journals and Discussion / Koppig Varken
« on: December 12, 2005, 05:14:00 pm »
Leaning heavily on the rails of the pen, Koppig squints at the pair of unclaimed oxen.  With a crooked grin that displays stained and rotten teeth, he throws the twig he had been using to pick his teeth at the nearest one.

"Yous is not for listenings Pig," he says with a grunt.  "Is not need for be scary, Pig not can eatering yous."

Wiping his dripping nose with the back of a broad hand, Koppig returns to his tale.

"Pig is find new home Hlint," he says, casting gaze around darkening town. "Is meet manies for need strong smashering.  Is even can sleepings in-in."

With this he grabs the long handle of a well-used maul leaning beside him. Swinging it lazily over the fence towards the cowering oxen, laughing with a snort.

Sweeping the maul head low along the ground inside of the pen, he says "Pig is smashings lot littles like this.  Them littles get broken.  Pig is for learn smash manies."

With a thump that buries the head of the maul deep into the pen's soil, he ceases his clumsy swings.  A gurgling belch sends a breeze of fetid air towards the near-panicing animals.

"Pig get lot shinies," he says with a swaying nod of his oversized head, "then buy yous for eatering."

With that he lumbers off towards the heart of Hlint, trailing the maul behind him along the dusty path.

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