Hello. I want to address a problem that has been bothering me and the other players for quite some time now. I really liked the old survival shop, the one before this reset. This shop is extremely overpriced and some items have really weird prices. Let me give you some examples ! 1) Everybody buys and sells skeleton spawners in auction or auction house for around $50000, but in the shop it's $300000, so that's 6 times as much. Not to mention the zombie spawner, which roughly values about $35000 to $40000, and in the shop is, oh yeah, still $300000, which is about 8 times its value. Proof - https://imgur.com/zRF3LT6 2) Different items, but same price : A few days ago, a friend of mine needed an axe to cut some wood from my forest and I didn't have any materials nearby to craft one so I searched the shop to see if an axe is really that expensive. Guess what I found ? A stone axe, an iron axe and a diamond axe all cost the exact same : $750 ! This is definitely an issue and it just doesn't make any sense ! Proof - https://imgur.com/a/gYWg3 https://imgur.com/a/TZHSY https://imgur.com/a/j6vEG 3) It is really weird that you cannot sell certain items and only buy them, or the other way around. But in some situations this is really frustrating and I really can't understand why it is like that. For example, you can't sell cobblestone, but you can sell cobblestone walls and mossy cobblestone walls ! What ?? Proof - https://imgur.com/a/RQU3M https://imgur.com/a/eSAro 4) So far I have talked about 3 different problems : overpriced items (number 1), different items with the same price (number 2) and items which, for some reason, cannot be bought or sold (number 3). Now I want to address the fourth and last problem, which is similar items with big price differences. Let me give you an example : both pumpkins and melons can only be naturally obtained by finding the seeds in dungeons or strongholds and making farms, which give you the pumpkin block and the melon slices, from which you can craft the melon block. So they are pretty similar and both are quite hard to obtain. But in the shop, a pumpkin block costs $20 and a melon block costs $200. Given the circumstances, a melon block is 10 times more expensive than a pumpkin. Why ? Who knows ! You tell me ! Proof - https://imgur.com/Igs8EtB https://imgur.com/a/O10vx Oh yeah, and you also can't sell melons but you can sell pumpkins, therefor making the melon farms pretty much useless, since they are very expensive and a melon slice only replenishes 1 hunger bar, so you could just make a potato farm with an automatic cooker and have food for life, which would be a lot more quick, reliable, cheap, effort-less, reasonable and convenient. So, the shop definitely has some flaws and bugs which need to be fixed, and I wouldn't say they are minor. I am asking for help about this from @aXed , @Rabascm and @Jack20. Thank you. All images legally shared through the official and virus-free website imgur.com Resource pack used - Faithful resource pack 64x64 for versions 1.11.2, 1.12 and 1.12.12 Best regards, Karamel43
Imagine how easy it would be when every single item can be bought and shop. You are not supposed to get any item you want just in /shop for a cheap price. And what is wrong with melon being more expensive than pumpkin? If you buy just one you can make a farm and get them for free. Oh and you forgot the real issue, hoppers cost 30k in shop but you can just craft them.
No it's not. Exactly. You can buy a pumpkin or a melon and make an entire farm from just 1 . But why 1 melon is $200 and a pumpkin is $20 ? Also, hoppers cost 30k because people are lazy and don't want to craft them anymore.
Some prices can be adjusted but like _Lonelywolf said your no suppose to be able to buy everything from /shop. Or what would be the point of survival?
But you're missing the point ! Of course you can't get everything from the shop, but what about the other things ? You can buy a diamond axe for the price of a wooden axe, is that normal ? Someone should be in charge to constantly update the shop prices. Maybe a zombie spawner was worth 300k at the beginning of this reset (even if it wasn't) but now it's worth about 40k, so just change the prices a bit.
I wasn't talking about adjustment of prices, I was talking about putting a man in charge to constantly update the shop, as well as adding the option to buy or sell certain blocks or items.
Firstly almost no one considers the prices on /shop as actual market value. Either they trade (/trade, /auc, /ah) or they ask for one, free. This is why making connections, friends or allies are vital in any community-based server, such as this server. Secondly i oppose having the /shop prices to be constantly updated, as it is a massive waste of time. Besides, you can't just monitor someone's market activity, person by person and make price changes based on this monitoring analysis, and there's not much of items that is in need of price updates. Perhaps, some commodities such as canes, cactus, and pumpkins (this one needs to have its selling price raised to compensate for the redstone nerf) needs some adjustment but that's it. What are you going to do, make the /shop sell you a polished granite for $3.000? i suppose you have no issues with that considering that you received 2 millions just recently
If spawners prices are decreased players will lose alot, no one will buy spawners from players they will prefer buying from /shop.
I am not saying "make the price shops exactly how they should be". After all, this is survival and everything should be obtained by yourself. The shop is just an alternative for when you have absolutely no option, so of course it would be more expensive
