Specifically, just moonstones and pebbles. I feel this would create an easier to navigate experience with pebble and moonstone sales, and allow a newer user the chance to shop around.

Additionally, add a sub forum for those types of sales, so Trades isn’t overwhelmed with those topics.

Knucklebones and moonstone shards should be fine on the Flea market still, as both are needed for specific achievements, and quests.

Edit- Users would still be able to trade via DM in this manner.

Edit 2- I do think that the ability to sell either pebbles or moonstones at a time would open up the Fleamarket a little more and entire more users to participate. The ability to sell moonstones or pebbles at the same price ie, if you're selling a moonstone for ten pebbles, you can list ten pebbles for a moon stone, would also enable users to feel confident about buying from the fleamarket.

Additionally, In all other places that I personally play, the economy is healthier when the premium currency is traded on the forums. In any game that I've played that allowed premium currency for sale on their markets similar to the flea market, the price for premium currency always becomes unobtainable after a time. Think Neopets, Aywas, etc.

As of right now, there isn't a balance, since you can buy 28k pebbles for a moonstone, or sell a moonstone for nearly twice that. There aren't nearly enough users playing the game to be able to keep that kind of trade going long term.

No support.

No support. In the games I play where selling currency in the flea-market-esque functionality is not an option, it is actually a very common and popular suggestion to add it. It makes it so much easier that you don't have to navigate the forums, aren't dependent on timezones and such, and competition can flow more naturally.

I think a lot of the issues people are having actually stem from a disbalance in how easy/difficult the different currencies are to obtain and how desirable the sinks that use them are. Removing the option to more freely trade them isn't going to fix that issue, just hide it at best, or make it even worse due to an even slower moving market. The devs should focus on making pebbles more desirable, making moonstones more easily accessible, and the issues we're experiencing now (if they can really be called issues, as it really is just free market economics) should resolve themselves

Ofcourse moonstones are going to be more expensive than pebbles, as pebbles are way easier to get and don't see many popular uses, whereas moonstones are an absolute pain to obtain and have a lot of popular sinks to spend them on. Yeah the disparity is very large, between the buying and selling price, but removing one avenue of exchange is not taking away the cause of the disparity, and therefore will not fix it.

I too would be willing to sell my pebbles for a lower rate, simply because I have 80 million pebbles and I can easily make more. I wouldn't be willing to sell my moonstones at that same rate, because a. I don't have that many moonstones, and b. I don't have a reliable way of replenishing my moonstones once I sell them. These are the important factors that are causing the current prices and disparity between them. Not the avenues of exchange.