Post by F.ury on Oct 17, 2014 4:38:08 GMT -5
I had another idea for a trading/gifting thread. There seem to be quite a few people (me included) who are trying to move up to the next trophy level before a holiday. Ex: I need about 30 more dragons by Halloween to hit gold, ewi122 needs about 200 more dragons by Christmas to hit gold, etc. I've also seen quite a few other members trying to do the same thing. So, my idea was to have a trading/gifting thread to help people get to the next trophy level before a holiday so they'll have the extra slots for that holiday. The thread would be a hatchling gifting/trading thread; users can either donate messy hatchlings to people who need them or trade several messy hatchlings to a user who needs them in exchange for a nicer egg. Messy and inbred hatchlings would be very welcome (and even preferred) since many of them are probably going to be frozen. Also, then users won't be asked to donate a bunch of nice hatchlings since nice hatchlings are pretty valuable; they'd just be asked to donate the yucky lineaged hatchlings that they were planning on freezing for themselves. Thoughts on this? If people don't want this as a specific thread, I can just create a general trading thread and then users who need messy hatchlings can use that thread to trade some nicer eggs for them.
Also, if we are doing trade threads, one thing I personally would love are some areas we can openly exchange IOUs, also not allowed by DC rules. As this is a private forum, IOUs can actually be enforced to some degree (which is exciting). I know I personally really like them, as it's a lot easier to breed someone something when you already know which pairing they want. I don't know how DC as a whole feels about them but it seems like a potentially useful market. Perhaps for bred eggs only if CBs are too much of a gamble? Although I know there are people who catch rare things reliably and can probably do CB IOUs.
EDIT: I see you guys actually don't want to do IOUs, but I'm going to keep the suggestion in, as I think it's something that should be considered, as there really isn't another place for them and people who break IOUs can be banned. If it can't happen, I understand, but figure it's worth a mention.
EDIT 2: Could we also maybe have a breeding request thread? I know a lot of TAE-ers give them out (I'm certainly happy to) and I don't think there's anywhere else to do this right now
Made a breeding request thread! It's a sort of cross between The Giving Tree and Breeding, Gifting. Let me know what you all think of it!
I'm glad someone else would find a trophy help thread useful, too. I'm going to wait and get some more comments on that first because I don't have a clear idea of what the thread should look like yet.
As for IOUs, I personally would have no problem with users asking for IOUs in trade posts. However, IOUs would still be a "do at your own risk" sort of thing since this forum has no real jurisdiction over IOUs. Sure, we can ban/blacklist users who don't follow through on IOUs but that still won't make those users obey their IOU agreement. I'm not sure how I feel about a specific IOU thread because tracking down users to make sure they are following through with their IOUs is going to make a lot of extra work for the forum mods. I feel like a specific IOU thread might be encouraging/promoting the use of IOUs when the goal should be more of a passive acceptance of IOUs.