Constructive feedback for the economy

Hello dear Warmane community.

As a former developer myself, I'm greatly impressed on how this server was made and I'm thankful for having such an amazing WoTLK server around.

I was solemnly checking your website offers that come with donations and such and I noticed something that seemed really odd to me.

Let me explain:

You allow players to sell their Gold, for a settled amount of price that they decide themselves.

While this is good till now, there's something that I don't really get. You have to pay a certain amount of coins to just post a trade, which is at 10%.

Now, your pricing of each coin is relatively high, so you're enforcing players to take the risk of posting a trade and losing real money.

Until now, everything's fine and I quite agree with the service fee.

Now, what triggers me is that the buyers get the full amount of Gold.

I'm going to explain further on why this is wrong:

- The seller has taken the risk of losing its Sell, so technically Coins.
- The buyer has a better purchasing power since they generally are coming to this part of the website to make easy Gold.
- A new player can eventually come to the Server, donate for Coins and take all the offers that he wants without having a single form of downside, besides the Coin which are not TAXED.
- This kinda affects your "inflated" economy, because it's all in all extremely worth to buy Gold (this, of course, depends on the offers).

Now, I know what are going to be the answers to this.

"If prices are taxed when you buy, there will be less demand."

While this is true, when you do have Coins, people will not mind much having a fee which should go to the equal amount of fee that you pay to post the Service or even higher (this will balance the farmers more).

I don't know how the duration works since I never had the chance to post anything, but the 1 day to 3 days is meaningless, since no one is going to use lower if they don't get any benefits from it.

Let me know what you think!

You pay tax only from successful trades.

Yes, there's no posting fee, what you see is only deducted from a completed transaction.

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Originally Posted by Obnoxious

Yes, there's no posting fee, what you see is only deducted from a completed transaction.

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Okay. This suddenly makes a ton of sense. But, may you tell me who gets the fee exactly? Do you mean that, if you pay the fee and that you haven't sold your items, you get your coins back or?

What does the buyer have to pay, him? Does he get the full amount without paying any tax or he also has one?

There is no "up-front" costs when you post a sale, you can post with 0 coins in your account. If you want 85 coins for an item, you have to post it for 100 coins(should be 97.75 coins, but lets not get into that). You get your 85 coins and buyer pays warmane those additional 15.


I'm sure when you buy a loaf of bread, tax is included in price. You don't have to take a few slices off your bread and send those to the government. Point is that buyer paid all that tax, not seller.

I do get what you mean now. I have a latest question.
What happens if I sell 1 gold for 1 coin? Will I then get 0 coin or just 1 coin?

I know this contributes to nothing but I'm just curious lol.

Nah, minimum price will be 2 coins, due to fee being 1 coin