But now, instead of 2 towns selling + buying for the same prices, let’s make it more interesting.

Town 1

• Sells A,B,C for $1, $10, $115
• Buys D,E,F, for $2, $15, $110
• Buys G,H,I, for $3, $12, $112

Town 2

• Sells D,E,F, for $1, $10, $100
• Buys A,B,C, $1, $8, $130
• Buys G,H,I, $5, $8, $104

Town 3

• Sells G,H,I, for $2, $10, $100
• Buys A,B,C, $2, $14, $108
• Buys D,E,F, for $1, $8, $60

I hope this isn’t too confusing, it should stimulate players to look for good combinations of resources to sell (Each letter is it’s own item) and to which town’s to sell to to make maximum profit. And so, trade routes are established, meaning people will fight for these, pay for these, steal and cheat and lie for knowledge of these, or people will scrutinize this chart and make a fortune. Many paths all to the same end… good luck!

This is a nice and more detailed idea than what Athen suggested. The only problem being we need to find or create a plugin for that.

Some details:
– Destroying items on TP is a bad idea: dropping them automatically before the tp would be better. You TP, a chat message say “Those trading items were too heavy to teleport, you left them behind you”. I don’t see a good reason why those items should be destroyed.
– Disappear on environment killing: same thing, I don’t see why… getting back to the place you died isn’t easy (except for donators).
– Disappear if placed in a chest: that’s quite ridiculous. We are looking to make sailing ships more interesting on this server. Having those non stackable items in a chest on a ship would allow real merchant travelers and be really interesting. BTW, that objection don’t apply to ender chests in which those items should be forbidden.

To answer Athen:
– Color-names items can’t be reproduces by players. That allow for an easy way to have non forgeable items and secure that trading system.
– What is the problem with those items being used in a crafting table or any GUI ? Those items will surely cost more than the “non custom named” items … If anyone use them ingame for their vanilla purpose, they’re losing money, that’s their problem.

The problem is now finding plugins that would allow that kind of system … I’ll start looking now as I’m not sure we could find someone with enough time and/or enough competences to make a custom plugin and maintain it.

You need a time limit for the ships on port. any player just mite make a set home in a ship with an ended chest and just go back and forht doing that.

ON A SIDE NOTE:

its better to make 5 shops all connected for a profit bye item b (diamond).
You connect the shops seperatelly like this

Shop 1 – trades item (a) with – shop2

shop 3 – trades item (c) with – shop 4

And shop 5 is in the middle of the sea and sells ships mostly small schooners.Item (b) (diamond ) can be used for a profit in any of the 5 shops.

structure:
If you look at artificial island in real live most are circels and this shops should not be the exeption.they should have a port and in the intire land is just the giant building of the shops something like the shops i will place at the end of the chat.
the cords to the shop 5 you will get them as a command something like /sc (shop cords). and then the shop 5 sense its in the middle of the ocean it will have a few blocks pointing at the shops direction you buy a ship and sail out. plz look at the pictures i left.

I find it funny @alex lazescu how this doesn’t offend me. But I won’t use it for my one good I know that google translater dosent work very well and using it would be lying to my self I’ve been making my grammar better for you guys and for my future as a doctor I don’t edit them for a will so I know what I did wrong and I learn. But I’ll make sure to delete the first one and edit the second one.

@TimHuisman no thanks and its spanish i really am try to make my grammar better, but thank you for your support.

@Alex Lazescu you can read the last one know i hope its better and it has something to think about

@alex lazescu you have a point. But what I ment bye 5 shops is that there very Far apart. Shop 1 is at the west ocean shop 2 is at the East ocean and so on. Sence there so far apart the players would try to take as many items as possible and the same time that create’s the risk of an all or nothing deal.

Yes I limited the shops profit and that was stupid of me but I was trying to make it risky so players would go in groups.that way more players go to the sea.

The 2 shops close to the shop is a bad idia. It would be nice but your forgetting about the enderchest withswith a coast near bye players can easily place it and teleport with no risk.if we have them completely surrounded bye water we can tell when they do that and have a type of jail or maybe make does items go back to the ender chest some how.

I propose an idia to you all piratecraft members:why dont just grab 1 map and place the routs, trades and locations of the shops we do it like that history projects weve done were the teacher gives you a map and you make a legend (in puerto rico we call them legend its the discription of the map or the expanation of the simbles on the map. i dont know if you do it like that) and then all of us vote on the one that looks the best. i will give you this map and you edit it as you want.