Accepted [All Main Servers Suggestion] Trade-Shop Rental Evaluation

+1.

I was giving some thought into making a suggestion like this, but it's good to see it from a shop owner's perspective.

I see no reason to triple the price of market stalls. I can understand a slight increase, but to the extent that it was done is a bit too extreme for my liking. Instead of trying to milk money out of the owners of /market stalls, the server should be supporting them, and if anything paying loyal, decorated users for their service. (That is a suggestion for another time.) I personally do recommend new users visit /market so that it doesn't become entirely obsolete.

Given the advent of ShopDB and /tpc, we all know that it is much easier to get to any shop on the server, at any time, anywhere. Back in the day, and feel free to come for my neck with this one, it wasn't all that easy to find a shop to buy or sell, for example, stained glass or dyed wool. Now, you can search up your item on ShopDB and get coordinates and a warp to there. While ShopDB does bring quality-of-life improvements to users, it's a bit of a detriment to others who have shops in /market.

ShopDB is cool and all, but /market has its pros too -- namely, a user can buy a variety of items and it's all in one compact place. If one shop doesn't have spawn eggs, you can go check the shop over. I do still recommend new users use /market, but the main reason that I do that is with the intention of supporting the users who have stalls there. But, even in real life, if the cost of owning a shop is going to increase, that increase isn't just absorbed by the owner, but rather it's pushed on to the buyer.

The increasingly exorbitant cost of something meant to support the server community itself really is a shame to see, and quite frankly, it is not very conducive to keeping a player base happy. (Source: @AdmiralD, @Imabankthing, amongst several others)

 

At this time I am simply I am reducing shop rent back to where it was since I recognize the hardships of the current spawn-market situation. Namely the lack of foot traffic and appeal and competing with town warps and the shopdb listings.

At this time I have no solutions to this issue and will continue to brainstorm and look for suggestions on increase appeal and foot traffic at the /market.

 

Trade-Shop Rentals have been returned to the following values:

$10,000/week for a smallshop (Stations 3-11)
$20,000/week for a largeshop (Stations 1-2)

Any applications filed for stations moving forward will be charged at these prices.