Another issue: suppose you're a new player, who hasn't yet built Ancient Wonders. You're at a standstill on the tech tree, because you need more goods to unlock the next tech but have already put in all the required KP. Your coins and supplies are maxed, so you go to the Wholesaler to unload them, but the only things they have are things you don't need -- if you're a new player, we might be talking goods you haven't even unlocked yet. So: you can't get the goods to unlock the tech, you have nowhere to dump KP, possibly you can't even
buy KP if your bar is full... you're stuck. You are literally stuck. One of the people in my fellowship is in exactly this position right now, and there's a good chance I will be too before long. Not good.
As for me, well, today's Wholesaler deals for me are exactly the same as yesterday's. Here they are:
Here is where I am in the tech tree:
I'm not even done unlocking Tier II goods yet, and the only thing I can get for my supplies, two days in a row, is elixir! I now have 50 elixir, and it looks like there will be more of it in my immediate future. You can say "well that elixir will be helpful later," and yes, sure, that's technically true (and it's exactly why I
have bought the elixir so far, rather than just sitting there maxed out, because I'm that sort of rainy-day person), but it's not helpful or satisfying now, and there is a great difference between a player in Chapter IX having to wait a day for an ideal deal and taking a lesser deal in the meantime, and a player in early-mid Chapter II having to buy elixir. Especially if all I am ever able to buy is elixir! I'm assuming the repetition is a bug, but I'm not really brimming with benefits of doubts at the moment.
On a slightly different note, I have, without particularly trying, managed to come up with three or five ideas about how they could have changed the Wholesaler to get a similar effect without causing catastrophes for new players and potentially nerfing NH. Should I post them here or in the Ideas forum?
