You can start snotty threads in forum about it. You can complain to your guild leader (or, if you are guild leader, talk to yourself angrily, quite a few guild leaders do that.) You can curse the smug g*t sitting the otherside of the screen.

if the right amount of goods are packaged into a 'take off the shelf' deal and you can then move forward on the tech tree without those precious forge points ticking away while you are 'tech-stalled' - yah, you take the deal. when you start getting 10 offered for 12 needed and see somebody trading deliberately on the margin, that is what makes the teeth tingle and the mutter of 'must resist fist of DEATH!' under the breath when it is a fellow guildie trying to skim the top off of their own guild - that is what puts people's backs up and is something guild leaders have struggled with all along.Īt the end of the day, if you need it bad enough to take the deal, you take it. I think so long as the basic understanding of a 'fair deal' is 1:1 in era or 2:1 up/down. Another example and i may be off a bit but the principle will be the same: 2 good from the industrial age one coke 4x5=20 and textiles 4x3=12, thats an 8 square difference, cost the same to produce so people will consider 1:1 a fair trade, but shouldnt the rubber be considered more valuable since it takes up a larger amount of space in your city?īottom line: do you *need* the goods, do you *need* them now - or - are you prepared to wait or make a counter offer and see who bites? A couple examples of this: Granite 4x4=16, Talc 3x3=9, so thats a 7 square difference the person making the talc could easily put in another building to offset the difference in cost to produce. One thing has occured to me lately and that i dont think anyone is considering is this, goods buildings are different sizes and thus take up different amounts of space in your town, and as i see it space is even more valuable than coins or supplies.

Now, i have had a different view of this for quite awhile for various reasons. I have a question for you guys and i want your thoughts, i see people all the time talking about fair trades and they always say if they are of a different age should be 2:1, due to the difference in cost of coins and supplies to produce them.

Forge empires fair trade ratios