[X] My Assistant

[Ablazing Within]

Hi guys, first off, an overview of the current state of things:
1. Points required to put a Trinket up: 0
2. Points required to take down a Trinket: 50
3. Points required to offer a Trinket: 0
4. Points required for your offer of a Trinket to go through: 100
5. (Trinkets up:Offers) ratio, in general:
a) Rarity=1, ~100-200:0
b) Rarity = 9, ~10-50:0
c) Rarity =10, ~0-5:~0-5

From the overview 1-4, it can be seen that Trinket-trading by putting it up in the Market is much cheaper than by putting offers up for them, essentially 0 vs 100 points, especially for low-rarity Trinkets (why would you ever need to take them down and incur a 50-point cost? You have so many of them, it's not like they're gonna run out!). The creates a huge surplus of Trinkets on the Market; huge supply as cost is practically zero, low demand due to high price of offering (100 points stacks up quickly when you look at the number of Trinkets, especially low-rarity ones, not available to your Affinity. For your convenience, the link is provided here. As Malachite, there are over a whopping 1700 Trinkets unavailable to me, totaling a cost of over 170,000 points were I to try to trade for them all. This number increases when you take into account trading for Trinkets that technically are available to you but which RNG has not blessed you with.). This also makes Trinket-collecting a veteran player's game, where new players can't afford collecting something otherwise unrelated to their progress when they could otherwise be spending their Points on Extra PC Boxes or Shine Recorder Slots or a Silph Scope or an Odd Incense or SlowpokeTails (I'm just kidding).

The effects of this is actually very apparent as can be seen from overview 5a and 5b; supply on the Market greatly outweighs demand in terms of offers. Only at rarity=10 does this not happen; the factors I imagine are: 1) people trading for rarity-10 are veteran players for which price is no object. 2) costs less to do this for rarity-10 Trinkets as there are very few of them.

From the above, my suggestion would be to scrap the 100-point fee for Trinket-trading! Or at least lower it substantially to below 10-points. This is especially important for Trinkets of lower rarity, for which there are many of them. From overview point 5, it ought to be in effect for rarities 1 through 9, but I understand if you'll want to limit it to maybe 1 through 6?

With the implementation of this suggestion, my hope is that more people will actively participate in Trinket-trading, which in my opinion is a really creative part of the site, especially with how most of the Trinkets are designed by the userbase itself! Would really hope to see the artists' works being admired and appreciated. Thank you for the time spent reading this, and I would appreciate input on how this suggestion can be further improved.

This post has been edited by Ablazing Within: Nov 27 2018, 03:14 AM