Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24304663-20140111214839/@comment-24108228-20140211162340

FredeyFly wrote: Heres a few examples of why trading is a bad idea:

Weaponry:I trade twenty four mithril for a bluesteel sword :D I go and raid a giant mithril tribe. The person who traded the sword leaves, leaving me alone with no weapon. This is extremely pesky for two reasons:

1:I lose the work I put into getting the sword

2:Im... screwed.

'''Solution, buy the metal not the tool. With 24 mithril you probably have enough smithing.'''

Fishing rods:I trade a sail boat for a net. start fishing. "A KING CRAB IS BITING" :D *net maker leaves*

1:loses work put into making sail boat as said before

2:No five king crabs dangit.

'''Solution, make 3 string yourself. Not hard.'''

Food:Poison. Need I say more?

'''This is something that really bugs me. Why does everyone expect food to be poisoned when traded? You could buy some mithril if you had enough poison to use on people you don't even know, let alone dislike, and then make a sword. Much better for killing.'''

Mithril:Berries will spoil your day.

Unless your smart enough to check if it is Purple dye, or even just notice that it is the wrong colour.

Ship: I trade six mithril for a fleet of ships, such as two galleons, five catamarans, and one large sailboat. Our tribe gets in the ships and starts sailing to desert. Ship builder leaves. The entire tribe drowns.

'''Solution, make your own boats. To be fair, this is probably the only legitimate problem, but wood is plentiful and after selling all your boats for 6 mithril, people tend to want to use that mithril.'''

Bombs/Gunpowder: Tribe attends a meeting inside a hut to buy some gunpowder. Hut is sealed after everyone gets in. Bombs are set off, ahem magically explode, totally not the sellers fault. Entire tribe dies and disperses in madness

'''Similar to the poisoned food trader, these people do not exist. If I made some bombs, I will not pretend to trade them away. I will bomb someone with them, or trade them legit. You can do so much more damage to a tribe by blowing them up rather than killing off a few that decided to join the meeting.'''

Lastly, it usually takes some skills to make buildings/tools/pies/something traded. Therefore once those traded goods are used up/blown up/burned, you do not have the option of crafting more without a bit of forced leveling that people usually do not want to do after they are decked out with mithril and bluesteel. They are forced to go back to the original seller of the goods or find a new source. The person providing the goods, not the raw materials such as an ore or such, always wins.

'''And you get stuff without having to do this leveling in the first place. You also win. In fact, the only person who doesn't win is whoever benefits from people leveling their skills. Which is nobody.'''