I don't really have a term for it yet but many players trade goods for fp's. I prefer the term "Pity Trade" for when a guildmate is asking for free goods to build something like the Observatory or Atomium which in turn helps the entire guild. "Fair" TradeĪt the end of the day a fair trade is what you and the person you are trading with find acceptable. Regardless, people see trades like that and say "OMG you crazy, why you think you can get that!?! " not realizing it's a fp/goods trade or pity trade, or sometimes hasty guild mates trying to help their guild mates out with typical trades accidentally picking up these sorts of trades and say "OMG whachyou trying to do scam us!?!? " So then some goof came up with the "Fair Trade Calculator" and based trades using supplies and coins costs as the trade value, then "fair trade" eventually became something to the effect of "what is a fair trade?" and people trying to find actual fairness with all trades which is impossible. I think you should be able to set your own values but I suppose the 1:2 thing came about to prevent abuse mainly regarding push accounts. The thing is, in this game you can ask for 100 of the highest age good for 50 of the lowest age good and anything in between. What people really probably meant at the start of this game was "abuse of trade" in a sense. Whoever came up with the term "fair trade" should be exiled from the entire universe. Here's a comment I wrote recently regarding the topic. Unfortunately Inno has made this more difficult by using the term "Fair Trade" in its mobile version trade window as a checkbox and "fair" in its description of trade on its Wiki.
It's a difficult thing to fight against the accepted nomenclature of a culture but I'm determined. I am of the opinion that FoE players must immediately and forever stop using the term "Fair Trade" and the apparent inverse "Profit Trade" or any derivatives thereof. These are my thoughts and my thoughts alone, you are free to form your own opinions and own structure regarding trade, I stand in no judgement of that so this is not about you personally or how you structure trade deals personally or guild wise, this is only regarding my thoughts on trade. I'm writing this so I have a post I can link to regarding my thoughts regarding trading so every time I see the all too often brought up topic of "fair trade" I can link it rather than constantly having to repeat myself.
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