DeletedUser651
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While you might not need the Elixir yourself, others might. You can always trade it for the lower-tier goods, too.
As Mykan said, these kinds of trades are banned by many because these trades are very bad for goods balances. We figured that out quickly. As soon as the first person thought he would be cute and just produce tier three goods and trade for tier one, the rest of the fellowships quickly discovers that everyone will suffer. Anyone seeing these kinds of trade figuratively spits on them. You think you have a problem with game balance? The worlds would begin to see shortages of tier one goods if people hadn't figured this out by now.
There are whole threads where people demand to know why anyone would be so selfish and horrible as to put up cross tier trades. Some players have even suggested they be banned (though I highly disagree with this....even a bad choice is a choice and I HATE reducing options).
Let me explain why these cross tier goods trades are so bad:
I will use the factories available in Fairies as an example.
In 20 squares of prime real estate (this is a city builder game and space is the highest commodity)
I can make 79.5 gems per square in a 3 hour period (1595 gems/20 squares of space).
That means I can make the trading equivalent of 1272 planks per square (because gems are traded at 16 to 1 because of the COST of the gems to produce.)
However, the same level plank factory can only produce 130.375 planks per square. (1043 planks/8 squares of space).
Or put another way. It takes 20 spaces to produce 1595 gems which is 25520 planks. But it takes 195 spaces to produce the 25520 planks. This is why the whole world quickly finds out that cross tier trades are really bad for them, though they may not know the math. (obviously these exact numbers change level by level, and good by good, but the concept remains the same).
You can mess with the ratios of trading, but then you will throw the cost of production into imbalance because currently the COST of production IS in balance.
Not to mention the time it takes with all the slow animations and loading times
Especially during the tournaments. The animations slow to a crawl, even with the battle animations set to low. It took me about an hour to get through 2 provinces. The animations just make the game run like sludge.
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