08-23-2012, 11:32 PM
Yes Justin brings up some good points. Everyone on this forum post and more should practice working with the villagers some. It seems about 20% of the villagers or less will even make an offer can can allow you to get an emerald. The vast majority (80%) will only offer deals that absorb or use up emeralds. If anything, the server will have a hard time getting emeralds to use in the 80% other transactions. If few or none have emeralds then the 80% of 'Sell Emerald and get stuff deals' are worthless. Have a look at /warp jmcmarket ... I only have 1 emerald and I really don't want to spend it for 5 pork. Yes as justin also said the 'deals will change'. If there is a deal where you get an emerald for 10 easy pieces of paper. You can only do this so many times before the deal changes and likely changes to a deal that cost an emerald not gives one. I think Aussie said you have to make all your transactions in 1 viewing or the deal can change. I think 3 separate visits and purchases from a villager will make the 'deal change'. If anything the server has a bigger issue of how to get emeralds and enough emeralds to make 'villager trading' even worth while. I feel we should use emeralds with intentions Mojang/Jeb had in mind. They are are currency and need to be fairly available. This will largely benefit 2 groups in CFEW 1) Pixel Artists - (quack) & 2)Player who want to have the fun experience of villager trading. I too had also first thought about the emeralds as rare like 'diamonds' and 'gold' but the villager trading system doesn't mesh well with 'rare emerald model'. They are a pretty nice new gem and would be nice to keep rare if mojang had a different villager trade system. Maybe there is a plugin to let us tweak the villager trade mechanics? This would be cool and helpful. Maybe we could set gold as the trade currency instead of emeralds and keep emeralds more rare? .. This is all dependant on what plugins are available. If none for villager trading, my vote is we all go with the Emerald Flow and use them as Mojang intended. Any one else have thoughts or ideas on this. My word is not the final word of Fish-Godness here haha.. Please give your thoughts and ideas.. and please experiment with Villagers and Trading for an hour at least. Ask and SuperOP+ for a few villager spawn eggs. I told some players I would place 3 villager spawn eggs for them maximum. After that they need to breed them. Maybe a 'villager egg' recipie or server shop woujld be good with a high price or tough recipie. Food for thought! nom nom nom
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