Road Side Shop Idea

Don't know if this has been mentioned as of yet. Just started playing the game and I like it a lot. Great job. Anyway if this belongs in another post sorry. There are so many and I don't have time to read them all.
So here it is. I think you should advance the road side shop in a few ways.

Road side shop sellers side
1 - Make the items listed in the road side shop not remove from your barn but remain there until people purchase them.
2 - Set the items you wish to sell in the road side shop that you wish to sell at a certain rate per unit
3 - Select the amount of units you are willing to sell
4 - Allow adjusting of price per unit and number of units while item is in the shop
5 - Remove units from the shop that no longer wish to sell (no diamond charge)


Road side Shop Purchasers side
1 - Allow the person purchasing to decide the number of units they would like to purchase

There is a trade off here. By linking the shop to your barn you can not just dump items into your shop to free room up in your barn.
The game will be more self sustaining and not dependent upon Face Book which is slowly dissolving itself into smaller apps rather than one large running app.
You will be able to limit the number of slots in the road shop and make obtaining more slots a project within the game.

Add a composting building in which a player can take units that they no longer wish to keep and recycle them into a manure to fertilize their fields. This would yield a greater return on the planted crop. But cost units of product and large time for it to breakdown to compost material.

More to follow as I delve into the game further.

Thank you for the time and once again great game.

Kevin

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Originally Posted by KLanaville

Don't know if this has been mentioned as of yet. Just started playing the game and I like it a lot. Great job. Anyway if this belongs in another post sorry. There are so many and I don't have time to read them all.
So here it is. I think you should advance the road side shop in a few ways.

Road side shop sellers side
1 - Make the items listed in the road side shop not remove from your barn but remain there until people purchase them.
2 - Set the items you wish to sell in the road side shop that you wish to sell at a certain rate per unit
3 - Select the amount of units you are willing to sell
4 - Allow adjusting of price per unit and number of units while item is in the shop
5 - Remove units from the shop that no longer wish to sell (no diamond charge)


Road side Shop Purchasers side
1 - Allow the person purchasing to decide the number of units they would like to purchase

There is a trade off here. By linking the shop to your barn you can not just dump items into your shop to free room up in your barn.
The game will be more self sustaining and not dependent upon Face Book which is slowly dissolving itself into smaller apps rather than one large running app.
You will be able to limit the number of slots in the road shop and make obtaining more slots a project within the game.

Add a composting building in which a player can take units that they no longer wish to keep and recycle them into a manure to fertilize their fields. This would yield a greater return on the planted crop. But cost units of product and large time for it to breakdown to compost material.

More to follow as I delve into the game further.

Thank you for the time and once again great game.

Kevin

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There is a problem with your first suggestion about leaving the items in the barn till sold. Most people sell things because their barn is full and they want to buy something else. To leave the item in the barn keeps them from getting that space. Also if it is in the shop, it can't be used for making another product because if you could then it isn't available for sale. If that item doesn't sell quickly, the farmer is stuck with an item that they can't use and can't sell and without the benefit of the barn space. Why would you want that

You do set the price of your item. To allow someone to just purchase some of the items in the slot ties up that slot.if I sell ten slots of ten wheat and someone buys just a few from each slot, I am stopped from selling more. This is not necessary. The buyer can turn around and sell what he doesn't need in his own shop.

Also editing the sale price, while on the surface has some appeal, it is part of the game that you learn the mechanics of resource management. And there is already a mechanism for items priced poorly that don't sell. Ant thing left for a few days gets bought by Greg or Tom. The reason you have to pay diamonds to delete items for sale is to discourage the use of the RSS as storage, getting around the barn size. This might not have occurred to you because you want to keep the times in the barn while up for sale. People can and some do use the shop as temporary storage by putting eggs for instance in the shop at max price and then getting a friend to by it back. It is difficult and can be risky, but imagine if we could put a bunch of stuff in the shop, and then take them back later for free. There would be less need to increase the barn. You are trying to take away the ability to sell items freeing up the barn. That is an integral part of the game. As for being tied to Facebook. Many of us don't use Facebook at all so we don't see it as a problem.

Thank you for the quick reply to my post.

I understand what you are saying about my suggestion; though I belive that I was a bit unclear.

Let me put it in a senario so that I can better articulate what I mean. I know I am not good at explaining myself in the most clearest of circumstances.

First your road side shop has 1 slot when you start the game. You select the item from your barn that you are willing to sell; lets say wheat. You decide you want to sell it for 5 gold per unit and are willing to sell 20 units.

The game locks out 20 units from your barn that you are not able to use. While maintaining that it must be stored some place; in your barn. Your not just throwing it into cyberspace. :)

You wait for a while like you do in the game currenty for it to sell. Lets say 2 units sells. You check your Shop collect your cash. As it doesnt magically flow into your wallet. Plus you would like to see how your sales are doing. They are not doing well. Now you have a decision you can either remove them from the sales floor. Thus giving you that product to use or you can ajust the price to a lower amount per unit.

You decide that you have way too much corn in your silo and you can use the remaining 18 units of wheat to make some chicken feed anyway. You remove them and instead add your corn to the market. 50 units at 2 per unit lets say.

You find that in 20 minutes you sell them out completely leaving your shop emty. Great now you have money and room in your barn / silo.

When you have multiple people purchase from your shop wheat would only come from that single slot that you have. This being the case the amount available will be displayed. This allows players to shop better getting more of what they need without haveing to purhcase a high amount of something they need without the extra. Then having to resell what they did not need in their shops.

By allowing a player to remove an item from the sales in the shop is an added bonus. Lets say I made a few different feeds for my animals and used the last of my soybeans. OOPs. But I know that I have 10 in the shop. Instead of me having to go to another farm and purchase those seeds. I can remove them from my sales shop. Now I can plant to get more or make more feed. Though the best would be to grow more.

Now haveing multiple slots in the shop is not to sell the same thing in different ones but to be able to sell multiple items at the same time. For example wheat and corn. If decide you want to sell more wheat than what you currently have for sale all you have to do is just up the amount of units you want to sell in your shop. Not take up an aditional slot in the shop.

This basis system would basically erase the use of the RSS as storage. Remove the need to have Tom purchase remaining items in the shop. Increase the need to enlarge both the silo and barn. Create a better retail market within the game. Eliminate the annoyance of having to cycle through another persons shop to see what they have for sale. As the shop list would be much smaller.

People would have to pay much closer attention to the room that they have available.

Further the composting part has a dual function. It allows a player to recycle unwanted or unneeded crops that just are not selling for whatever reason that day on the market. While at the same time giving a little compensation back for the effort that you had put into growing those crops in the first place. This allows the player to immediately free up some barn space if they choose not to wait on the shop sales.

Basically the composter does the second half of what dumping an item out of the shop currantly does but instead of it going to oblivion or back to the barn it recycles it into something useful on the farm.

This all tied together forces the player to learn the use of resource management within the game though it is a bit narrower and forces the player to think a bit harder on what they are planing on growing and using.

The idea isnt to change the mechanics of the game much but to further inhance the play of the game.

I appologize if you did not understand what i ment in my first post. Hope this helps and if this is along the lines of what you were thinking I appologize for the post.

Once again.
Thank you for your time.

Thank you for the quick reply to my post.

I understand what you are saying about my suggestion; though I belive that I was a bit unclear.

Let me put it in a senario so that I can better articulate what I mean. I know I am not good at explaining myself in the most clearest of circumstances.

First your road side shop has 1 slot when you start the game. You select the item from your barn that you are willing to sell; lets say wheat. You decide you want to sell it for 5 gold per unit and are willing to sell 20 units.

The game locks out 20 units from your barn that you are not able to use. While maintaining that it must be stored some place; in your barn. Your not just throwing it into cyberspace. :)

You wait for a while like you do in the game currenty for it to sell. Lets say 2 units sells. You check your Shop collect your cash. As it doesnt magically flow into your wallet. Plus you would like to see how your sales are doing. They are not doing well. Now you have a decision you can either remove them from the sales floor. Thus giving you that product to use or you can ajust the price to a lower amount per unit.

You decide that you have way too much corn in your silo and you can use the remaining 18 units of wheat to make some chicken feed anyway. You remove them and instead add your corn to the market. 50 units at 2 per unit lets say.

You find that in 20 minutes you sell them out completely leaving your shop emty. Great now you have money and room in your barn / silo.

When you have multiple people purchase from your shop wheat would only come from that single slot that you have. This being the case the amount available will be displayed. This allows players to shop better getting more of what they need without haveing to purhcase a high amount of something they need without the extra. Then having to resell what they did not need in their shops.

By allowing a player to remove an item from the sales in the shop is an added bonus. Lets say I made a few different feeds for my animals and used the last of my soybeans. OOPs. But I know that I have 10 in the shop. Instead of me having to go to another farm and purchase those seeds. I can remove them from my sales shop. Now I can plant to get more or make more feed. Though the best would be to grow more.

Now haveing multiple slots in the shop is not to sell the same thing in different ones but to be able to sell multiple items at the same time. For example wheat and corn. If decide you want to sell more wheat than what you currently have for sale all you have to do is just up the amount of units you want to sell in your shop. Not take up an aditional slot in the shop.

This basis system would basically erase the use of the RSS as storage. Remove the need to have Tom purchase remaining items in the shop. Increase the need to enlarge both the silo and barn. Create a better retail market within the game. Eliminate the annoyance of having to cycle through another persons shop to see what they have for sale. As the shop list would be much smaller.

People would have to pay much closer attention to the room that they have available.

Further the composting part has a dual function. It allows a player to recycle unwanted or unneeded crops that just are not selling for whatever reason that day on the market. While at the same time giving a little compensation back for the effort that you had put into growing those crops in the first place. This allows the player to immediately free up some barn space if they choose not to wait on the shop sales.

Basically the composter does the second half of what dumping an item out of the shop currantly does but instead of it going to oblivion or back to the barn it recycles it into something useful on the farm.

This all tied together forces the player to learn the use of resource management within the game though it is a bit narrower and forces the player to think a bit harder on what they are planing on growing and using.

The idea isnt to change the mechanics of the game much but to further inhance the play of the game.

I appologize if you did not understand what i ment in my first post. Hope this helps and if this is along the lines of what you were thinking I appologize for the post.

Once again.
Thank you for your time.