Talk:Rare Material Trader

Supply and Demand
Most players are aware that global supply shortage will cause trader buy and sell prices to increase, while global surplus will cause the opposite. However, I recently noticed that the trader buy and sell prices offered can differ between players, apparently based on whether each player has transacted any business in that commodity with the traders. If anyone has researched how transacting in a commodity affects prices, please post your observations. Specifically, how does the quantity traded affect the prices, and for how long a period of time before the prices reset to global pricing in that commodity? Pucktrapper 18:54, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing that the global supply and demand is not updated every single time you make a purchase. Rather, it updates every...minute or so...or when certain thresholds are passed, like 100 Bolts of Cloth bought/sold for instance. So if you had lag it may appear different, or something...? Perhaps a different trader's stock is used for different parts of the world, different districts, different towns...?
 * It just seems highly unlikely that supply and demand would be calculated differently for an individual. I suppose it may make sense that buy/sell prices change temporarily if a person suddenly moves 1,000 red dyes or something - causing a momentary spike or drop in prices before they are recalculated. But that would seem to be too complicated. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 03:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Buy-price to sell-price ratio?
What determines the difference between their buy price & their sell price for a certain material? --War Pig5 21:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)