Market & Traders

[Barney [CA]]

I'd definitley say yes to removing the autogenerating of lowvalue cars, and also to not add (as many)low value cars by hand every now and then.
At least not so often. Since both have been implemented car trading on the server has almost stopped, as theres is almost every car for every desired price availiable.
Back then, you could at least "negotiate" a bit for rare GTRs for example.

On a positive note, that has decreased people "ripping" off new/unexperienced cruisers by selling them way overpriced cars. Mostly FZs and XRTs.
For the same reason im totally against removing the !carinfo. New players need that to get a grip of how the value is, without knowing the technical details.

Instead i'd rather suggest the (trade-) value of cars to be influcenced by "previous owners", "bulit date" and/or "heavy crashes"(if that isnt too hard to implement.
Just some first random numbers thrown in for (your)example a 50% FXO, eg 7500km, has a value of 8100,-

The new (trade) value would then be something like value*(1-(0,005*previousowner)), with 5 previous owners it would only be
8100*(1-(0,005*5)) = 7898,- same could be done per month since bulit date(maybe a tad lower reduction) and heavy crashes.

A 50% FXO, 5 previous owner, 12 months old and involved in 5 heavy crashes would then have a value of:
8100*(1-(0,005*5))*(1-(0,001*12))*(1-0,0025*5))= 7705,-

Apart from those "fixed" numbers there's still room for negotiating anyways imho, but barely anyone did ever take into account if a car is actually serviced.
That can be a price difference of 1500,- but is being totally ignored by everyone.

I'm not totally against a traders licence, but i dont really see a need for that much effort, while most people anyways only trade to make money(of unexperienced drivers), but not for the roleplaying part.

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€: or is the value displayed in !carinfo actually lowered by serviceprice, if the car is overdue?