Then don't hustle them 24/7. I swear you are just looking to poke holes, not actual solutions, ignoring the fact that we have many people who are very successful at doing their trade, some via shops, some via hawking, and without being called a Tupperware aunt. And if you don't enjoy going around an...

When you have a trade master then you are still in training, and you should be sharing in profits, at least some of it (not much, not even close to half but some), with your master as you work together on the projects. I have never had a time when I had a Merchant where there was a "Master" PC who ...

"Compete! Burn the other guys shop down, have him removed from merchants for fornicating with a goat, have him exposed as the member of brotherhood he isn't, besmirch his goods as tainted by mage filth." Except then you're masterless again. When you have a trade master then you are still in trainin...

Yah I guess the real trouble is that with just 1 there's no one to teach you, but with two the second rate guy gets 0 business. Compete! Burn the other guys shop down, have him removed from merchants for fornicating with a goat, have him exposed as the member of brotherhood he isn't, besmirch his g...

To be honest, I like the rumor system myself. The only problem I see is that we have a reactive filtering system rather than a proactive one, meaning rumors that shouldn't make it into the rumor mill enter it regardless. I personally think it's hugely thematic that rumors are next to impossible to ...

You won't see them because they get reported and removed out of the system, I have a lot less luck and catch them as they turn into the idiotic hate mail they are. And to understand how bad the rumours are now, I really don't need to bring up specific example, but point out that with a lot more play...

I struggle to see how it would curb news spreading, especially as the only change is, and I quote myself: "the solution is simple: rumour promotes can no longer be representing your characters view.". You can still submit rumors that represent view of the crowd that seen a crime, or anything notewor...

The vast majority of those promotes you want to trace should not happen in the first place, as no one icly would openly say what they are saynig. Per help policy rumor: Unthematic rumors are rumors that just physically could never be said in a world like TI, not things that you disagree with or find...

I am tired of the ooc hatemill that rumours are, there is no arguing that this awesome system devolved into this right now, and it does very little else with most people afraid to post a rumour because, well, it will turn into that. And the solution is simple: rumour promotes can no longer be repres...

Before assets, the sub-par weapons were used as training one, a stepping stone between using wooden and proper ones. As I've said many times the only judgment on a better economy shouldn't be weapon sales/use. There are a lot more skills/roles/crafts to consider. Have assets and the new post silver...