Game Development: Le Happy Merchant

[sabinati]

5 slots still seems unnecessarily limited

[Sevenless]

do barter stands work over walls?

Nope, but I think that should be less necessary given the implementation. Since the stand holds no items, it is not theft-sensitive, and thanks to the Visitor buff, you should be able to make reasonable sure they aren't all too frivolously destroyed.

Pretty sure they meant can it operate with containers across walls.

Frog legs are a neat noob food, good addition imo. Not overly interesting to established players but beginners need love too.

[CapnCliff]

so youre saying. I cant lock up the boxes behind walls for the trade stand? and you expect us to rely on the super buggy and easily avoidable claim protection system. if that's the case. then they are completely useless. and everything will get stolen.

[ArvinJA]

5 slots still seems unnecessarily limited

That's a good point! Unfortunately, running a game with nearly 9 users is a little tricky. If we allow everybody to offer trades, then the game would crash within nanoseconds. Trust us, we've tried it before. The hetzner server was never created to handle up to 4 simultaneous users at once, and as a result, the backend database server simply can't handle the load of everybody trading.

Let me put it to you this way: each time somebody trades for something, the server has to go through a couple MILLION trades looking for those exact trade. It can handle a toddler trading. It can handle one person and a woman trading. It can not, unfortunately, handle a couple people trading at once. If we were to let everybody trading, there would be no game left because the database server would take its own life by throwing itself onto the autobahn.

So if you'd like to have more slots, trade, have custom images, and use various other bonus features, please upgrade to a Platinum account. It's only $9.95, around the price of a two-hour movie. We think you'll get more than two hours worth of entertainment here, and your payment will help us afford the seven servers powering the game you're using right now.

Thank you!

[Granger]

so youre saying. I cant lock up the boxes behind walls for the trade stand? and you expect us to rely on the super buggy and easily avoidable claim protection system. if that's the case. then they are completely useless. and everything will get stolen.

In case you have found issues with the visitor debuff please open a thread in the bugs section. Thanks.

[sabinati]

so youre saying. I cant lock up the boxes behind walls for the trade stand? and you expect us to rely on the super buggy and easily avoidable claim protection system. if that's the case. then they are completely useless. and everything will get stolen.

I think the containers you sell from can be behind a wall.

[loftar]

so youre saying. I cant lock up the boxes behind walls for the trade stand?

No, I'm saying precisely that you can lock up the boxes.

the super buggy and easily avoidable claim protection system

As Granger said, if you know any bugs or exploits, you are very free to report them.

5 slots still seems unnecessarily limited

Does it really matter that much? Is having to have two or more stands that encumbering?

[DaniAngione]

Suggestion:

Make the stand cloth textured with a 'striped' pattern... so if I use two different clothes (let's say wool and hemp) my stand has a white and green striped cloth

[loftar]

Make the stand cloth textured with a 'striped' pattern... so if I use two different clothes (let's say wool and hemp) my stand has a white and green striped cloth :D

That sounds like a nice thing.

[Astarisk]

Make the stand cloth textured with a 'striped' pattern... so if I use two different clothes (let's say wool and hemp) my stand has a white and green striped cloth

That sounds like a nice thing.

No nice things. Ever. That's the rules, have you forgotten?