Market & Traders

[◄Chuck►]

(Copied from internal area to widen the discussion)

I noticed that there is still a certain interest for the car trader's role. I'm wondering if returning to the old trading scheme and deactivating the auto-generation (the script that generates low-value cars) could be a step forward (again).

The idea of traders is as old as the market is. There has always been a "trader" flag in the database that wasn't ever used. But since TC World, the technical base couldn't be better for professional traders.

I imagine there could be a traders-license for 10 grand or so, which grants a virtual warehouse where traders could store their cars.
TC World then could be the showroom for those traders. The traders could choose a nice logo and put featured deals into the front window or so.

There are downsides too, to which somebody may know a solution for:
- Unlike real world, the condition is always 100% accurate as numbers don't lie. So it's a bit hard to negotiate over prices as the reference price is totally known.
- Supply of low-value cars could break down as most people only sell the "slow ones" and keep their FZ5's

(Maybe there could be a special car-source for traders, but then that might only (unfairly) flush money into the traders' pockets. Dunno )

Thoughts?