Guilds > The Goods

NEWS: August 3 --- The Goods guildhall has expanded to 275 members. Thanks to everyone who helped out!

NEWS: June 11 --- Ability to paste chest clipboards into sell orders added to the website!
NEWS: June 8 --- Welcome to Robare, our newest Teller!
NEWS: June 5 --- Raeli Tiles released for public trading!

What We Are

The Goods is a not-for-profit trading company, run by volunteers, operating from North Seven Lakes. In Telling One The Goods was founded by Baf who was inspired by the Traders Bank of Phoenicia Commodity Exchange. It was a qualified success, limited mostly by the cost in time and effort of transporting materials to and from the relatively remote location in the North of Egypt (first in North Valley of the Kings and then in North Cat's Claw Ridge). In Telling Two The Goods moved to a central location in Red Sea Oasis (now Seven Lakes) and became more successful than we ever envisaged. Now in Telling Three The Goods has once again moved home to be in a central location. The Guild House has been built in North Seven Lakes at 1433, 1973. It is north of the CS and west of the school of Harmony; there is a expo site close by at the nearby Nile bridge.

The Goods mission is to assist citizen retention in Egypt by facilitating trade. The Goods special concern is to trade items to new players and solers that they are unable to produce themselves. Of course the more goods we have the easier it is for us to supply people with the goods they need, when they need them.

Facilitating trade isn't just about large trades or high-priced items. Nearly every newcomer who enters Egypt winds up needing to trade for enough nails to make a tent, but the established citizens who have their own iron mines seldom want to spend time haggling with them over the small quantities involved. We minimize the time and effort involved in trade by providing a simple self-correcting pricing system for all generic commodities.

All Tellers are members of TGBoD (aka The Goods Board of Directors) which is next to The Goods GH. This is the admin part of The Goods. (There is a TGBoD private wiki.)

The Goods has an external website where its trade list can be found at: http://www.atitdhosting.com/thegoods

We also have a FAQ on this wiki. The FAQ includes details on creating a login for the trading website.

What We Trade

For the most part, we are willing to trade in any generic commodity. By "generic" we mean items that are not, in the game's terminology, "unique" or "complex" - things without special properties. This includes every kind of metal, fish, vegetable, and mushroom. It also includes worked items such as nails.

Some examples of items that we do not consider to be generic: hatchets, carpentry blades, metal shovels, flax seeds, resin and paint. If it's unclear whether an item is generic or not, you can ask a Director of The Goods (in-game you can /info TGBoD for a list of Directors). If they are unable to answer (perhaps because it is an item new to the game) they will consult with the other members of TGBoD where a decision will be made as to the item's classification.

Our pricing system depends on the stock being arbitrarily extensible. We will not stock Octec crystals, ground fireworks, or any other resource that citizens will not be able to produce more of.

Herbs will not be traded at all this Telling.

Some special generic cases:

We will not stock mud, sand, or any other resource that can be gathered in arbitrarily large quantities "without proportional effort". Thus we neither buy nor sell tadpoles. Since you can always improve your tadpole-collection rate by making more jugs, the number of tadpoles you collect is proportional to something more like the square root of the effort involved.

No 'wet' items will be accepted in trade this Telling.

Items which can only be processed into one item will not be listed only the product will be. An example of this is silk thread can only be used to make silkcloth hence The Goods only traded in silk cloth in T2.

We will not stock any resource that decays over time, such as beer, or that requires attention or maintenance beyond mere storage, such as sheep.

We do not consider the different roasts of barley and malt to be generic. However, we will stock raw barley and malt.

The contents of clay jugs will not be considered. Jugs of water and sulfurous water will be priced as jugs.

All the TGBoD's decisions are final; only in very exceptional cases will we reconsider. (See the FAQ for more details as to the procedure for adding a new item to the inventory.)

This telling we will generally be applying a 30K limit on any one item stocked by The Goods. There may be exceptions on an item-by-item basis.

What the Goods Guild Is For

The Goods Guild exists to provide a chat channel to facilitate requests for Tellers, to offer help to traders who may be having problems with their Goods trade and for Goods Directors to make Goods announcements. (All The Goods infrastructure, compounds and chest farms, are guilded to TGBoD.)

Active TGBoD elders

CaveCub, MeryetDjehuty, Orchid, and TpcT.

Active tellers

Armanhotep, Balthazarr, captdanjou, CaveCub, Deeva, Deohotep, MeryetDjehuty, Orchid, Ping, Primoz, Robare, Telanoc, TpcT and Yendor.

New Inventory Items

Items will not be added to the Goods inventory until after donations have been recieved or the donation period has expired.

Donation Levels Explained

The Goods Service Announcement

Please note that The Goods is NOT a 24/7 service. The Goods is administered by unpaid volunteers and thus we do not provide a continuous shift of Tellers. Tellers simply being online does not mean that they available as they have other commitments. Rudely demanding a Teller or being abusive to Tellers privately, in Main, in regional chat or in the Goods Guild channel may result in you being refused service and in extreme cases (if a member of the Goods) being expelled from the Guild.

Improvements

Have an idea for improving The Goods? Please see our Improvements page.

News

News Log (for those curious about what's going on at The Goods)