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I've never been much into trading, the main reason being that I'm too lazy as it may require a lot of time to maintain your trade list(s) and to carry out trades due to both parties not always being available at the same time, often thanks to conflicting time zones. I had an account on Schthack for almost 8 years but in all my time there I only made 2-3 trade topics, and I don't think I've even had one here on Ultima. As a result I've accumulated tons of crap that I'd like to get rid of. Anyway, there's something I wanted to discuss as the topic title suggests, please read carefully though. As I used to spend huge amounts of time hunting specific weapons on Schthack (and I do the same here), I ended up with quite many of them, just often not quite with the stats I desired. When I was making one of my trade topics, I came up with the idea of listing all I have of a certain weapon, calculating the PD price from a low base rate and the additional photon attributes - the premise being that these are weapons you'd want to sphere anyway, so rather than paying 20/99 PDs in Gallon's Shop for 5%/30%, you'd just pay 1 PD more for each 5 or 10% on the weapon which obviously is a lot cheaper than sphering. This also saved me the hassle of negotiating for a price, which was quite a point for me. Yes, you could always just hunt the weapon yourself but for some players it proved too difficult or they just couldn't be bothered, or you could end up with a drop that has bad or even no attributes at all (effectively equal to a BPD weapon), hence this was a viable option for them, as the following example will prove, taken from an old trade thread I had back on Schthack - Panzer Fausts. Note this is NOT a list of PFs I have here on Ultima, though I probably do in fact have a similar amount in my bank. Most of them sold in 2 or 3 days: Obviously I won't apply the same pricing structure here, this was back on Schthack when it was in its prime so a lot of PDs were in circulation so you can't compare the value to what it is currently on Ultima. Let's not forget there also was no donation ticket option to "buy" 35% or 20 hit, hit wasn't required as much as on Ultima anyway, a hitless Iron Faust was fine - though I'm using a hitless one on here too and I find it works well enough for the most part. Well, the Panzer Faust is a special case though as you'll inevitably spend another 50 PDs to make it into Iron Faust ... a few more PDs for additional % won't be a big deal I guess. Finally, I believe pricing should also depend, to some extent, on how difficult it is to hunt a particular item. With the abundance of rare enemies (especially during green names), hunting something like Frozen Shooter or Vivienne is trivial compared to drops like Panzer Faust, Spread Needle or event-only weapons. So, this is my general idea, what do you think? If you disagree that's fine as I'm well aware you can't please all the people. I'm merely testing the waters.