Hey guys, I started playing with an idea I had today. 4 World Trade Center had one of the world's biggest commodity trading floors; it was featured in the Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places if anybody has seen it. I started replicating it in Regalis' 4 World Trade Center today, and got the idea to set it up so players can acutally buy and sell bulk food items there at some rate, say 10% over /sell, and maybe buy at 20% over. I know the selling feature will have interest, cuz players will make more money than /sell will get them. Basically it would work like you're actually buying something from a commodity market around wholesale (the base cost of something, in this case, it's based on what I'd get if I sold it to the server) then marking it up in your own store when u stock, saving u from having to farm. I don't want to set this up if it will be a money loser, so I thought I'd take to the forums and ask how many people would buy from such a thing! Thanks for feedback!
Would be great if you can make it convenient for players - people aren't going to be against buying food if the utility cost of buying is less than the utility cost of farming it themselves. If you set up a warp right there and design the market so it's easily navigable, then you should see a decent return. It mostly depends on what working capital you've got available.
