I'm interested if anyone wants to start one too :-)
I would give all the LEM and expect to receive/exchange tools. For my level I dont need more land space, I need silo/barn and money :)
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I'm interested if anyone wants to start one too :-)
I would give all the LEM and expect to receive/exchange tools. For my level I dont need more land space, I need silo/barn and money :)
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we're all already storing the materials ourselves anyway so maybe pool them virtually until it is actual upgrade time and then let the shifting commence?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaptivator
I would be interested in this too. Think you would need someone with a pretty big barn in your group though
So would we keep the SEM and LEM as well? I would much rather just provide anything that I dont need to "The Keeper" to be traded for what we have a shortage in. There are different ways to play this as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by mizzkitteh13
Only asking because my barn space is minimal. lol
This sounds really interesting. My husband and I do a bit of this now but it would probably work better with a few more people as the spread of expansion times would be better. I would be interested.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by P1nky
Maybe use something like Google Docs, and keep track of the totals everyone has with a shared spreadsheet. Maybe have the participants try to update their total EM for each type on a daily basis to the spreadsheet so everyone knows what the total amount for everything is.
You'd need one member of the co-op to act as a sort of administrator/manager. That player would coordinate between the various other members and issue instructions to the other participants. For example "Player A, go gift X tapes to player Y". Or if there are time zone issues, then the administrator can act as a go-between until they can pass the right equipment on to the right person.
It would mean a LOT of book-keeping for the administrator, and it would require total compliance from the members.
There are lots of questions to answer: Do you always go to the next person on the list, and upgrade the thing they want? Or do you focus on the lowest level first player first? What happens when someone new joins the group? Or when someone leaves after they get their upgrade? By joining, are all of your materials "spoken for", or can you choose to sell some if you need the cash? What if I'm not playing very much, and someone else is playing a LOT? Do you prorate my share? Do you have to have a certain amount to contribute before you can receive, etc, etc, etc.
The BIG pitfall I see is coming up with the rules to determine who gets to upgrade next. You want everyone to feel like they are getting rewarded fairly or nobody will want to contribute. Nobody wants to just hand over their EM's to some random other player if they aren't sure they will get a return themselves. And lower level players are going to resent having to wait 2 weeks to get another upgrade because another player need 45 of each item to advance again.
It's the kind of thing that could work fantastically in theory, but would be quite tricky to execute. I think this level of organisation is probably how the farms that contribute 10,000 pies to the Global Events get it done. Except, in those case there is only one farm receiving the benefits, and many other farms feeding into it.
If I were doing this, I would start with a group of maybe 5 people in roughly the same time-zone and test it out. Elect one person the admin, get a shared document going, KIK or some other communication protocol in place, and just try it for a few weeks to see if it ends up being a better experience for everyone.
EDIT You could also just have participants flag themselves as needing one item or the other. And when one player has a surplus, you communicate to the one needing it. If you were doing that, you'd want to try to identify what items each participant gets lots of, so you don't have a co-op full of 6 people who ALL need tape and ALL have tons of Mallets.
Those are good ideas...But as you say, could be tricky to pull off. One ideal is that we may have to choose someone first off that already has a lot of barn space and then maybe for the first couple upgrades to upgrade their barn and use it mainly for storage. We can all help out with their boat orders and what not as needed. IDK...just throwing things at the wall seeing what sticks.Quote:
Originally Posted by mizzkitteh13
So would we keep the SEM and LEM as well? I would much rather just provide anything that I dont need to "The Keeper" to be traded for what we have a shortage in. There are different ways to play this as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by mizzkitteh13
Only asking because my barn space is minimal. lol
I've belonged to a HD trading group for over a year now. Here are some pointers for those interested:
- Establish better communication - we communicate using an app for more real-time responses. I recommend Kik, Line, or Text+
- Establish procedure - we rotated our focus for upgrading, starting from the smallest barn/silo to the largest
- Establish trust -with the proper app you can share screen captures of your barn/silo to initiate procedures, etc cetera
Happy trading and may the farm be with you.
I would very much be interested in this as well! I don't have much time during the week (right now) but more on the weekends. I have been pretty fortunate coming up with expansion items when needed. Except now that I need to expand my silo for the first time in eons....
Another choice to communicate in groups
A member on CoC side made a thread about an application called Glassboard a while ago. You can share pictures, comments and invite/remove members. It is called a "private social network" as you only share with member on your board/group. Possibility to create many boards for different purpose.
Clash of Clans seems to be a team play. Lots of them use Glassboard to chat within the clan.