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What's going on with the Flea Market?

Hi, friends!

I've been more active lately and I'm finding that many of the items listed on the Flea Market are all listed by the same few users. I'm not, like... offended about it or whatever, but I am curious-- does anyone know why/how this is? I mean, I know that there's only so many active users who are selling stuff, so it makes sense that some of the same names would come up, but I admit it's a little bit discouraging.

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It's mainly that there is not too many players, as well as its very time consuming to post stuff into the flea market, so I myself do not list things very often as I don't have time to list stacks and stacks of items
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Most of it I think is twofold; one, no easy relisting option means it's a HUGE inconvenience to list things on the Flea Market once you have a large inventory of things to look through. This is a problem for items and dogs, but obviously dogs have more kinda pressuring people to list them, what with limited space & all. Still, you'll see a lot of the same faces there too, just more of them. When I'm not swamped by projects I try to keep a few dogs listed, but not for another several weeks probably with how my current project is going. :P

Two, there is just... not a lot of demand for most things. It's so easy to be buried in heaps of resources to the point you just don't ever NEED to find someone farming a really specific thing. There's not a ton of useful resources found in limited areas, you can get a lot of the same stuff from different sources, so you end up with a bunch of anything you could possibly ever want. With the mole market, you'll have a bunch of players that have so many pebbles passively piling up with NO pebble sinks available, so they just buy out the crafting sections of the MM just to have something to spend pebbles on. I've recently started doing this myself after hearing about it, and it's not like I'm even bothering to craft a bunch of ribbons or armor sets or anything. Just hoarding it for new items nebulously released in the future I guess?

Right now, I think the most ""inconvenient"" item to get are the gems that are scattered in particular mining zones, but that's... Especially with the mining pick that prevents stamina use, it's not really a big ask to just go mine in another spot for a bit to get some gems. Most of what you even mine for is just to make picks and wheels to keep mining, so you aren't really... missing a whole huge world of income by not living in the last zone 24/7.

So instead of ever going "hm, I need a thing, let's go to the MM and buy it", it's always "well, where is this thing found, oh well that's easy to get, let's just go get it with minimal effort". Or more likely if you've been here a while, "Ah, I have 20000+ of the thing on accident, that's nice for me."
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Yeah, it's pretty easy to Ironman this game if you don't mind taking your time! I do appreciate our FM listers since I know I've gobbled up dozens of limited seasonal apparel from them. ^^ I previously tried to keep some basics on the FM for cheap, but it's a lot of work and they don't sell that often.

Honestly, if players would post what they need on the forums I'd be right on it lol. There are more than enough sticks/string/cotton/pumpkins to go around for crafting and stuff! Silk and Leaf Piles tho, I'll fight for them!

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@spoot Huh, that's good to know! In part, I'm wondering about the users who trade currency, for example 100k pebbles for 1 moonstone. It's useful, but it seems a bit odd that just a couple of users control this in the market--at this rate, it would almost make more sense to have, like. An official site bank lol.

Yeah, not having a relist button seems to be the biggest reason that people aren't using the Flea Market, which A) makes sense; and B) seems like something that would be a good idea for implementation in the game! I have a feeling that devs have already probably been made aware of this, though :P

Mostly what I always need is bone paste. Never enough bone paste...

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@pippi Ohhhh yes, the currency side of the market is pretty small! I am thankful that there is at least competition now (it used to be that some users controlled both sides and the rates were unfair imo), but it would be nice if we had even more participants. ^^ Not me tho, I'm spending all that currency hahaha.

Honestly, I wish the FM displayed the MS for sale before the pebbles for sale. The rates both ways are almost equal most of the time now, but the shock of the 10 MS for 1M pebbles is distracting for the economy as a whole.

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I do list stuff, but nothin' sells...
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