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SciencePro May 8th, 2010 07:53 AM

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?

Soyweiser May 8th, 2010 08:16 AM

Re: trading slaves
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SciencePro (Post 744918)
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?

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?

Quitti May 8th, 2010 08:30 AM

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.

chrispedersen May 8th, 2010 10:26 AM

Re: trading slaves
 
i certainly will never give more than 2:1

SciencePro May 8th, 2010 09:14 PM

Re: trading slaves
 
okay thanks for the input

militarist May 9th, 2010 04:26 AM

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.

13lackGu4rd May 9th, 2010 07:17 AM

Re: trading slaves
 
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.


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