@SoggyShorts I’m not being stubborn. Unlike you, I can suggest ideas for both sides, for people in fellowships and people not in fellowships. I’m not so willfully obtuse that anything that is suggested for a fellowship I will think is terrible. Yet, that is how you come across.
If suggestions are impossible for developers, that’s one thing. I get that. But there are more than just a handful of people not in fellowships. Maybe they aren’t on these forums, but they are certainly in the game.
If your comment that Elvenar has done studies that people stay longer because of fellowships, maybe it’s because they need to do more work for those who aren’t. But again, I think you make up a lot of stuff.
To be so against removing one quest in an event, that is a large penalty to starting players who haven’t yet decided they want to be in a fellowship, don’t know about them (or me who has chosen not to be in one) or have just unlocked their trader only to find out no one helps smaller starting players, and all they see are 1k, 5k, 50k trades is mind boggling. The quest used to be accept 1 trade, now it’s accept 5 trades. It just keeps getting worse.
Your suggestion to ask someone to put up terrible trades is no better, because not only are you going to use up your inventory for a terrible trade but also add the trader fee.