Some suggestions for Tera Shop and Trade Broker

    I'm returning player. Last I played Tera 4 years ago and now I'm giving game another try. I wanted to see what was changed and I can say a lot. Some changes are good and some not very good. But to the point.


    I created a new character (currently trying all classes to decide which one suits for me) and wanted to buy cute costume. And from this moment problems started.


    1. Tera Shop


    a. Shop window is extremely small.
    I'm playing with 4K resolution and I can barely see/read text mainly in items description. It would be nice to make that window bigger (include text) for players with high resolution setup.


    b. Tera Shop don't have costume preview.

    There is only icon that represent that costume and that is all. I can't see how costume look on my character directly in Tera Shop. Yes, there is dressing room but that brings another problem.


    c. Some costume names in dressing room are different from Tera Shop or not included at all.
    For example Epic Swimwear in Shop. There is no list of costumes contained in that box and icons have some names but dressing room show me zero results when I'm using that names in search. Some costumes I found later in dressing room, but there should be more info about costumes for some boxes in Tera Shop. Or at least same names in dressing room and Tera Shop, so players can find specific costumes easier.


    d. Description text in some costume items is misleading.

    For example Epic Swimwear: Choose one of six stylish outfits for the beach. With this description I thought I can choose one of six costume. Not that game choose for me randomly. It would be nice change that text in description so new players know that it is random and will be less angry and surprised like me when I got random costume that I didn't want.


    2. Trade Broker


    So I decided sell that costume via Trade Broker and then buy costume that I want. I didn't expected to be so much pain.


    a. Earnest money/tax should be applied after item is sold not before.

    I played many mmo games and this thing surprised me the most. Usually tax is applied after item is sold from selling price. Here in Tera tax is applied before. So I'm loosing large amount of money just to trying sell one costume and so far without luck. Even with lowest price for that type of costume nobody buying that. Is population in this game so low, that selling something is already huge problem? Another reason change taxation for trade broker. (Yes 4 years ago when I left the game there was same tax, but selling costumes wasn't problem like now.)


    These are just small things I notice during first days playing Tera.

    Quote from Joey

    a. Earnest money/tax should be applied after item is sold not before.

    This would allow broker bots/scripts to keep undercutting listings without being penalized for it. Your struggle with selling a useless cosmetic item is hardly an issue in comparison to all ethical players being unable to sell their items as their listings are buried underneath script driven 1 copper undercuts.

    Quote from CHRY

    This would allow broker bots/scripts to keep undercutting listings without being penalized for it. Your struggle with selling a useless cosmetic item is hardly an issue in comparison to all ethical players being unable to sell their items as their listings are buried underneath script driven 1 copper undercuts.

    Except undercutting has always been a thing and there's no penalty for it, so your argument really doesn't fit here.


    I do think it'd be nice for us to not have yet ANOTHER gold-sink by having Earnest Money applied before the sale, since even with Elite, we still have to pay the fee, because BlueHole wants us to waste even more gold.

    Quote from LevinSnakesRise

    Except undercutting has always been a thing and there's no penalty for it, so your argument really doesn't fit here.


    I do think it'd be nice for us to not have yet ANOTHER gold-sink by having Earnest Money applied before the sale, since even with Elite, we still have to pay the fee, because BlueHole wants us to waste even more gold.

    Of course it has always been a thing, up front broker fees ensure that it stays a thing and doesn't turn in to a problem.


    Furthermore, static gold sinks are healthy for the economy and keeps item prices in check. As I'm holding the bulk of my in game wealth in items, inflation is the best thing that can happen from a capitalist greed perspective, but this is a naïve point of view that doesn't consider the health of the game, playerbase and content. Gold being inflated favors high value items which by extension favors random chance and RNG over consistency. This in turn leads to an even larger divide in wealth distribution, more players quitting due to frustration over bad luck, and more elitism and toxicity leading to more of the same - new, lesser geared players being discouraged from playing.


    While I'm not directly affected by these sub-problems, and you might not be either, it will absolutely impact your overall experience when the playerbase is dead. Let's not encourage script exploits and turning the game in to a casino.