Market sharing update?

[Samdoo]

As it stands market sharing is as helpful as the alliance trade market and honestly both are rarely used. There are a few exceptions in very large alliances. I've even heard some alliances simply trade to and from the alliance bank to keep all trades internal with how difficult the alliance trade market is. 

 

It'd be a good idea to overlay market sharing with the global market place (and well remove the price and date filters, you could even just remove the alliance trade section with this idea.) The global marketplace is just dull and simply put always organized by price, there is no political aspect to trade. One of the bigger things that politics does effect is trade, The game currently lacks this. 

 

How the idea would work, Your alliance market sharing would mean something. To keep the global market around everyone would share with the global market.( and you could pick varying degrees) There would be a trade scale of 0-10 a 0 on the scale means embargoed and a 10 means preferred. This would be a major change from market sharing being a yes or no. 

 

This is still probably a bit confusing but I'll use an example. There are 2 alliances, and the global marketplace. UDN (the united donut nations) and MJ (Micheal Jordan). They both just started out so their global marketplace is on scale 5 (the highest number for global trade so market sharing has meaning). So their trade offers are seen on the global offers. UDN decides to trade only internally or with allies but would still like access to the global market so they change the scale to 1. their global score between the two groups moved from (10 to 6) MJ would no longer see UDN's trades since other groups have a larger Global Marketplace scale.

 

Now UDN decides it wants to trade with their new ally MJ.. So they send a market sharing offer. Each ally selects a value between 0-10 on how much they'd like to trade the numbers are added together and filtered into the market sharing rankings. lets assume both alliances go with the value 6, they'd have a trade ranking of 12. so they would see each others trade offers before the global market but other allies could have a higher ranking. 

 

Rather than trades being ranked purely by price they’d be ranked by market sharing and then price. If 1 side of the market share picks 0, it becomes an embargo between the groups. If someone puts the global market to 0, they would not be able to sell or buy goods globally. This would not effect personal trades in anyway.

 

Thoughts or questions?? Sorry if it's confusing. its easier to model then explain. 

[Abu Haddad]

way too confusing

[Abu Haddad]

but how about have alliances tax trade on the global market in order to force nations to buy from alliance. like the tariff system between America and Chinese steel

[Samdoo]

A tariff is used to discourage external trade. This to an extent gives the ability to encourage trade with others rather than discourage trade with everyone.  As well the pricing with a tariff system would be a nightmare, An alliance as well could trade spike someone with a tariff easily. It could as well set a 100% export tax and essentially take someones resources for free. 

 

This is a way to add preference to trade without changing prices for everyone all the time. 

 

Your explanation as well explained it with a specific resource, Specific resource tariffs and tariffs in general could be used for an alliance bank to make a profit by buying a bunch  " or buying out" of a resource and then be the only market for the resource. The current lack of tariffs protects us from that.