@shadowblack, I understand you don’t care for this suggestion. But I’m looking at this as a new player. Having deleted my accounts and restarted several times, I’m up to about 21 servers and nothing has changed. If anything, it’s now even worse. High chapter players still take all the trades and only post massive trades. It is terribly one-sided.
This last round of 11 cities I made, I was completely halted at the 5 trades in events, not a single high chapter player posted small trades. And some were even my neighbors. Would I join these fellowships? Not a chance.
Since mentioning this here in the forum and letting people know how hard it is to get started in this game, I have seen a handful of trades by high chapter players that are very small that could help their neighbors. Kudos to you my friends, you know who you are, I am grateful that you took the time to make a difference.
That is why I haven’t moved, if high chapter players refuse to post small trades, I’m really not in any better position than I am here. But this is why, even if limits aren’t placed (they should be) when I’m in a position to do so, I will always post little trades for my neighbors.
Another thing that could balance it out is limiting how many trades someone can take during the day. Maybe 5 every 9 hours?
Btw, what happened to all of the servers? There used to be more than 3 on live.