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I get so tired of having to sift through cross tier trades! I don‘t want to benefit folks who post them. This has been debated over & over & over. I have never been convinced that they are not just trying to take advantage so they don‘t have to produce goods needed to balance their city. I am now in utter disbelief that ascended goods trades are being swamped with the same greed. I do use the limited filters available all the time but still have to be vigilant not to pick up 0 or 1 star trades. I am a whole lot less disgusted with players after this has been allowed to grow than I am disgusted with Elvenar being too lazy to add filters so that players who want same tier non predatory trades can filter out cross tier & unfair trades posted. I’ve gotten to the point I just don‘t go in and try to pick up trades to help others nearly as much as the multiple times per day that I used to. So far having to be so careful in the trader for ascended goods is the only really negative thing I have to say about the new chapter. I am amazed by how much old and outdated information about trading is still out there. For a start it has always been a debate about what is a fair trade and one could always argue 2 star trades were fair, cross-tier or not. As many players factor in space as well as actual costs to produce the rating system was changed sometime ago to factor this in. So a 2 star trade is fair when based on space and cost. Its one reason why more cross-tier trades appear now as more people see this as fair and are willing to do the trades as it gives them more options in balancing their goods. Wait until you get to sentient and then ascended goods. Cross tier is not uncommon in sentient and if you have a pyramid of purification you can't control what you produce so you have to cross trade to balance things out. Then with ascended goods the trading is so restrictive that cross trading is a given, in some ways you could argue encouraged.
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I also liked the Event Guides when they were current. Tournament Tips is also useful, and the Getting Started section was excellent when I was beginning the game. You build up loads of goods of different tiers but mostly only need 1 good. Although Gems is a bit out-of-date in some areas, it is still my first choice for Elvenar resources. So you can accept cross trades and get the goods faster, using your mostly useless stockpile, or wait days on end.Ĭlick to expand.The devs have previously stated they don't want to hide trades, as they want to encourage trading. The filters are there to help you find things faster. Also worth noting for human players at least they have building demands requiring goods they don't produce.