I've noticed something over the 5-6 active years ive been playing ChickenSmoothie and realized that trading feels a lot more pointless than before.
I've always thought that when a pet is worth 200 C$ but the pets total to trade for it is worth 300, its supposed to be like that! It's not unfair, it's just that trading is harder, not everyone wants those pets, not everyone wants to bulk trade and try to count everything up, so trades like that are inherently worth more. While C$... its easy. Everyone wants it, everyone needs it, you can easily buy something and practically guarantee an accept if you offer the listed price!
Between buying a non for C$ and trading for it, buying is so much easier. You can just... do it. But with a non, even if you have a nons worth in pets, that doesn't mean you will be accepted. Maybe that person doesn't want your pet(s), or maybe they just expect more. Sure not everyone wants to sell their list pets, I know I sure didn't, but that was only because selling them was quick easy cash that comes at a loss. Like how in IRL when you want something done quicker than normal, you lose money to do so.
But now, everything has inflated and I see less of a reason to trade anymore.
Why trade down my list pets to slowly and painfully sell them off when just selling it gives me the exact same outcome?
Before I could trade them down and over time I can sell the pets for more than what I would've gotten by quickly selling. I don't see that as unfair. I put time into those pets to sell them, instead of getting 2k all at once, I can get 3-4k over the span of months, maybe even years if I neglect advertising!
It encouraged trading list pets and encouraged selling lower pets if you wanted to slowly grow in value to obtain rarer and rarer things and those needing quick cash can just sell lists. But now, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. You're stuck at the same value regardless if or not you sold or traded unless the person overpays, which encourages obviously unfair trades and increases inflation.
Why would I trade my 1 non for 100 pets worth 20 each when I can just... sell the non for 2k and save the time needed to trade all those pets? Not saying that's how it is right now, but it seems to be going in that direction.
Maybe I am overthinking it but I truly believe that list pets shouldn't be valued as what the 100 or so rares would be valued. The time it would take to sell those 100 pets is worth so much more than a single pet worth those 100 pets, but if I can just trade it all for a single pet worth a non or something just to sell that pet for the same amount if not super close, I will just do that instead of selling those pets. Which kinda sucks cause then those 100 pets are going to a single person instead of spread out to tons of people looking for those pets for their collection/hoards...
So I did want to ask, what did you guys think? Am I looking at things in the wrong way? Or is this how CS will function now? How is value gained now if not other sites, art, or overpays/high ranges?
Sorry if I did anything wrong! Never really made a discussion before. I always thought C$ was cheaper for being the "easy" option for larger trades but at a reasonable cost, but that doesn't seem the case anymore, or at least not for long
I've always thought that when a pet is worth 200 C$ but the pets total to trade for it is worth 300, its supposed to be like that! It's not unfair, it's just that trading is harder, not everyone wants those pets, not everyone wants to bulk trade and try to count everything up, so trades like that are inherently worth more. While C$... its easy. Everyone wants it, everyone needs it, you can easily buy something and practically guarantee an accept if you offer the listed price!
Between buying a non for C$ and trading for it, buying is so much easier. You can just... do it. But with a non, even if you have a nons worth in pets, that doesn't mean you will be accepted. Maybe that person doesn't want your pet(s), or maybe they just expect more. Sure not everyone wants to sell their list pets, I know I sure didn't, but that was only because selling them was quick easy cash that comes at a loss. Like how in IRL when you want something done quicker than normal, you lose money to do so.
But now, everything has inflated and I see less of a reason to trade anymore.
Why trade down my list pets to slowly and painfully sell them off when just selling it gives me the exact same outcome?
Before I could trade them down and over time I can sell the pets for more than what I would've gotten by quickly selling. I don't see that as unfair. I put time into those pets to sell them, instead of getting 2k all at once, I can get 3-4k over the span of months, maybe even years if I neglect advertising!
It encouraged trading list pets and encouraged selling lower pets if you wanted to slowly grow in value to obtain rarer and rarer things and those needing quick cash can just sell lists. But now, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. You're stuck at the same value regardless if or not you sold or traded unless the person overpays, which encourages obviously unfair trades and increases inflation.
Why would I trade my 1 non for 100 pets worth 20 each when I can just... sell the non for 2k and save the time needed to trade all those pets? Not saying that's how it is right now, but it seems to be going in that direction.
Maybe I am overthinking it but I truly believe that list pets shouldn't be valued as what the 100 or so rares would be valued. The time it would take to sell those 100 pets is worth so much more than a single pet worth those 100 pets, but if I can just trade it all for a single pet worth a non or something just to sell that pet for the same amount if not super close, I will just do that instead of selling those pets. Which kinda sucks cause then those 100 pets are going to a single person instead of spread out to tons of people looking for those pets for their collection/hoards...
So I did want to ask, what did you guys think? Am I looking at things in the wrong way? Or is this how CS will function now? How is value gained now if not other sites, art, or overpays/high ranges?
Sorry if I did anything wrong! Never really made a discussion before. I always thought C$ was cheaper for being the "easy" option for larger trades but at a reasonable cost, but that doesn't seem the case anymore, or at least not for long
