trading slaves
 

If you were trading slaves for gems, what ratio would you expect?

In other words, if I was willing to send you 100 gems of various colors, about how many slaves would that get me?

Re: trading slaves
 

If you send me 100 gems? You would get as low amount of slaves as I could get away with ;), say 100? Unless you are a nation I want to keep as a friend. And it depends on which type of gems, and how much I need them. Apart from that I wouldn't know. 2:1 perhaps? 1 gem 2 slaves?

Re: trading slaves
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...ht=blood+slave

searching forums ftw. tl;dr version: 200-400 slaves for 100 gems. Depending on gems.

Re: trading slaves
 

i certainly will never give more than 2:1

Re: trading slaves
 

okay thanks for the input

Re: trading slaves
 

It really depends. I believe 2-4 slaves is reasonable, but it really depands on competition. Once I played hinnom, and death was closed for me during the long period of time. I had awake fountain of blood as a petender, so had a lot of slaves to some moment, and have bought a lot (I think around 100) of D gems from Lanka in exchange of slaves. The price I payed was 6 slaves for each gem. It's really expencive, but there were several reasons:
1. Death gems are one of the most valuable gems in a game.
2. I was leading all charts, and nobody wanted to trade me death gems. Lanka was the only proposal on a market.
3. I had many territories, so I expected very good D income which will cover expences anyway.
4. I was researching towards Cons 8, was going to be there first and needed D gems to buy artifacts first (and some D artifacts really shine)
5. I didn't have any wars, so didn't have immidiate usage for slaves anyway.
6. Lanka wanted my slaves..but why would Lanka pay a lot for slaves, which it generate perfectly itself?
7. It's Lanka proposed this price and just refused to negotiate, and I had no choice at all.

So, a combination of factors led price of D gems for me to 6:1. And both sides were happy. So, the answer - there are some numbers you can start bargain from - if someone contacted you for exchange, but the final deal depends only from how badly you need what yuo need, and do you have a choice between trading partners.

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yeah I was the Lanka, or well, the noob Lanka, in that game. after talking with people who were on IRC at that time that's the price I thought was good for me, didn't have a clue about their so called "real" price, and as militarist nicely put it, it all depends on the circumstances... game economies, just as in real life, follow the very basic principles of: supply and demand as well as gain vs loss. these are not something you can generalize or pre determine, it depends on the game itself and the particular situation you're in.

obviously being a good salesperson helps, just like in all transactions, so I guess that was also a part of it.