New idea---caravan!

Lyserus

The idea is always let more guilds/players take part in the trading system, but also need to ensure the pro trading guilds get their profit (though it would be nice to reduce the bidding price a little bit...)

Basically adding caravans traveling between zones and cities, they have the same mechnics as the traders in fixed position, but they travel around in a designed route! This will make them less attractive because for those who go from wayshrine to wayshrint check on traders a moving target is less stable and a bit more hard to find, so those with fixed position still have huge bonus, yet adding caravans let smaller guilds have a chance to participate without huge cost (yet also no huge profit), and because they are traveling they are more likely to be "empty" and so those who failed their bid can running around and have a higher chance to get a free but less profitable trader for a week.

Do you guys like this idea?

(Plz don't mention auction house in this post, it's a dead idea and ZOS is not gonna do it)

notimetocare

No need for improving trading system, we are the rubber barons and we are the capitalism

Moving traders is a terribad idea. Nobody would ever bother.

Gandrhulf_Harbard

Silk Road Online had a Trade Caravan system.

Traders would buy goods in one town and travel to another town to sell them. Thief Guilds would try and hijack / rob the Caravan. Traders could hire Hunters to defend the Caravan from Thieves.

It was a very fum system, unless you were on a server with a significant ANBU Guild presence. They made it their goal to have enough Thieves on a server to prevent any Trade Caravans being successful - and to be fair they were damned good at it.

All The Best

Lyserus

Interesting idea and love to see it implemented, it solves a lot of problems

notimetocare wrote: »

Moving traders is a terribad idea. Nobody would ever bother.

who knows? not everyone travel around to find traders on purpose, if they found some good deal on the road there is no reason why not marketing this trader down.

And again, Pro players "would not bother" is the key of survive to new born trader guilds

Dracindo

Don't care

I probably won't ever come in touch with it, but I see no harm in it. It would create a more immersive world, though.
So, yeah, go ahead and add it.

Jaeysa

Trading system is good as is but this could be interesting, so why not?

Sounds pretty interesting - if implemented, I'd like a single caravan to have multiple traders(perhaps as many as a major city, to offset the unreliability of them)

Glaiceana

Trading system is good as is but this could be interesting, so why not?

This is interesting!
It sounds very similar to @Gidorick 's Auction Horse idea:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/159594/eso-needs-an-auction-horse-expanded-concept/p1

Lyserus

Interesting idea and love to see it implemented, it solves a lot of problems

Jaeysa wrote: »

Sounds pretty interesting - if implemented, I'd like a single caravan to have multiple traders(perhaps as many as a major city, to offset the unreliability of them)

One thing though…more than one guild in one caravam means more goods in a moving trader than a standing one, thus it will become more competitive…

Lyserus

Interesting idea and love to see it implemented, it solves a lot of problems

For me i think the only way for caravans to attract regular customers are through advertising and good pricing…these advantages won't be taken over if the caravan is outbidded so there is no reason for pro trade guilds to try take over it