Today is the day I reveal my ‘secret project’ that I’ve been talking about and working on since a bit. Maybe you heard also names like ‘the chinese wall’. It’s indeed a big building and the colors will warm your heart but it’s not a chinese wall
Let’s celebrate the opening of a game-changing community project!
SUNSET FORGE MARKET
What is it and what is it good for?
The Forge Market is something we haven’t had so far. This is set up to gather ALL motivated forgers and forge apprentices to form a union. We have lack of forged goodies no matter which article you can think of, where shall we get it from? The Forge Market shall be the solution. I splitted all tools, equipments and weapons I could think of and created them into categories that I thought would make the most sense. I did not split everything into the smallest pieces so some categories are more for advanced forgers and require more ‘effort’ than ‘smaller’ categories. Though there are beginner friendly/stress-free categories for forge enthusiasts that rather keep it small and uncomplicated but want to be part of this project and help the community out small categories shall allow the shop owner to easier maintain their stock and prevent that way to get overwhelmed and burned out. The Forge Market and its concept shall encourage forgers of each type, so everyone is very welcome to be part!!!
In short:
- Encourages new forgers
- Less pressure on the forger
- All-time stocked
- Everything concentrated into one market (easy findable, easy access)
How shall it work?
To make it fair to everyone and to make it work out, I came up with some rules. I’m the only owner of this Forge Market, so I like to hear your opinions to make it a good and fair experience for everyone. I take things into consideration and we can also do a poll or so for decisions. Overall I liked to ask also @HOST and friends and tried to find solutions for every questionable topic that arises involving the forge market.
Categories. So shall I just deconstruct or throw every possible good tool/weapon whatever just to fit into my owned category? That’s a tough one. And I see that this will be a hot discussed topic. Everyone has a different opinion. But that’s what I came up with. I have a few forgers as friends, I watched a few people forging and I was and partly am still a forger myself! My whole thought about that is, we should go against the waste but stay fair. How shall that look?
Overlapping*. Sounds odd but it shall just mean that even if you own for example a T3 tool shop, you’re allowed to sell T4 (e.g.) tools in limited amounts. I do understand that RNG can be unfair. Technically sometimes it’s enough to apply just level 1 damage to reach T3 tools or just a specific amount of damage to reach specific levels of tools or even just strength brew on tier 1 tools or use specific gems to guarantee the goal. But RNG does not give you always exactly what you want. Then you get maybe one or two level of damage boon too much and then the tool would fall out of your category. That’s why I created overlapping sell your category foreign tool at your shop. BUT, for the competitor’s sake, you shall please not exploit this. There’s not yet a number of tolerance set. But if there’s a concentration (frequently high supply) of category foreign goods then it can lead lastly to the removal of your shop. That is, of course, after contacting the shop owner, coming to agreements, warnings etc. There’s nothing that can’t be solved with a good old conversation. Secondly. That alone does not protect the competitor. That’s why I will set price ranges for every sold good. Here I will for sure need everyone’s help to find a good fair price range - it’s a community project so we do it together! -Everyone that sells category foreign tools and bombs needs to set for their article the very same exact price as the owner of its actual category. It’s not for punishment, it’s for fairness. Don’t steal your colleague’s business. You shall not be more ‘attractive’ than the buddy next door. Focus as much as possible on your category
In short:
- Anti-waste-policy with overlapping (Possibility to sell category foreign goods)
- Fair-Trade-Policy (Price-range in general and set prices as well as limitation for category foreign goods)
Overlapping how so ever, is more a rule that applies to categories: tools and bombs. Other categories can not really overlap since they are already set up that way that they have no other competitor.
Those two rules above are the main rules. Please do not sell other things than the ones agreed on.
Every person shall favorably just own one shop, it’s better to maintain one shop very well than two half-heartedly if the pressure is bearable and you can easily keep two shops well stocked, then feel free to pick two categories
We gonna have 3 basic supply shops: brews, pies augments. And later on hopefully unforged tool-equipment-weapon suppliers and forge ingredient suppliers.
Categories:
FORGER:
Beginner Equipment (claimed by Justone)
T1 (&T2)
T3
T4
T5 (claimed by @Lorgar)
T6 (claimed by @HOST)
T7
(Lucent forging optional)
Building & Gleambow Totems
Gem-Slingbows*: (claimed by RedY3)
Lucent* (umbris, rift, blink now combined in one)
(claimed by DreamIn)
Fists
Damage bombs
Lucent Bombs
Effect Bombs
Heal Bombs
Regen Bombs (claimed by ZeldaNL)
Grapples (claimed by Alysteria)
Liquid Breaker (claimed by @nor312)
Liquid Solidifier
Farming tools (claimed by @Balkinus)
Spanner (claimed by srcc)
Chisel (claimed by Bedroc)
Loot & Glow Totems
SUPPLIER:
Pies (claimed by @JaceyLive)
Brews
Augments (claimed by Gallenoria)
General information:
Each forge shop has the size 3x3. That should be more than enough space, you can howsoever expand in height. For looks, please do not build higher than 2 plots.
The supply shops are 2x3 and are allowed to build 2 plots high.
Everyone gets a beacon for free. The shop spots are already cleared in one plot height and contain a wooden floor. Feel free to keep or replace this floor it’s a service of the house. The shop spots are embraced by outer walls, nevertheless, I would like YOU to create your own shop and put your own elements into it. Just build against the borders the borders are there so no false plotting can be done.
It could be useful to change the beacon name to your category + @ FORGE MARKET. Example: Damage Bombs @ FORGE MARKET
-so it’s easier to see on Boundless Universal Trade Tracker and knowledge tab search function.
Maybe inside of the forge shop, shop owners could still hang up a sign with the name of their forge shop. Some people have a trade mark, some kind of title or business name, so they can add it inside so customers still pay tribute and acknowledge its that person.
In or around the Hub center I will create a little area where people can give away flawful forges. New players and players with budget will be thankful
[The SUNSET FORGE MARKET has still a little wip and fine tuning to be done, I’m positive until we found enough forgers, have the first few shops built and have the market 100% open for customers it all will be finished.]
Are there future plans towards this market?
This market can be always expanded. First I want the forge market to run. Afterwards we can add outside some kind of little flea market with shopstands that offer unforged tools, equipments and weapons so the forgers have their source nearby. Also forge ingredients can be a future plan.
Contact:
For easier contacting, letter boxes are desirable.
I created also a guild called [FORGER] SUNSET FORGE MARKET.
@HOST’s discord has a subcategory called SUNSET FORGE MARKET. You can join the discord via this link:
My personal discord is May-L04#4078. Feel free to contact me there as well!
Last but not least!
Portal access
TNT MEGA HUB (sovereign & hub wall) -thats on the western short side of the TNT HUB that has two signs “HUBS NETWORKS” and “SOVEREIGN WORLDS”
ULTIMA -has a ring to all important malls, locations and hubs, there’s a 2x2 portal in that ring which says “SUNSET FORGE MARKET”
Perspective when you come from the TNT portal
Perspective when you come from Pharaos Network.
SUNSET FORGE MARKET portal positioned in the west.
THE FUTURE OF FARMS -on the left wall
GTG Dzassak -on the left side
TNT All-Block-Museum, from TNT MEGA HUB portal left
Let’s fight the lack of forged goods and supplies together!
My thanks go to all my supporters and suppliers! Without you it wouldn’t have been possible! I will create in the following days a sign to pay tribute to all of You❤️
Big Thanks to @HOST for kicking my ass to make out of my ‘just an idea’ an actual thing! While you wanted me to design it in my own way, you helped me in so many ways with your little advices, opinions and your pushes of motivation and encouragement.
I hope the FORGE MARKET gonna be a great success. It’s for the community. It would be great for the community to have a stable forge market. And at all times I just had the community in my head and how much everyone would benefit from it.
This project got inspired by great builders like @HOST @Goblinounours @AdoraLupinatu & @Tmmk , EZPZ with their great market of forged goods, and KREE Mall that was the inventor of the first categorized mall.
Screenshots will be added soon to this post!
Please write below what category you could imagine to take care of