Talk:The Traveling Trader

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Woo, first talker! Anyway, from the look of the dialogue it looks like the "wanted item" might change (possibly daily, like the Bounty Hunter). Also, anyone know what the toad horn does? --Thoby123 00:03, 4 January 2007 (CST)

  • I'd certainly hope the item changes, because one twinkly wad does the effect of all three of those items put together, much less 30 of them! --rholliday 01:51, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • Actually, the effects of the items are probably not 100% accurate yet. Squirming Like a Toad gives more than the initially believed +10% Moxie, for example. They are probably somewhat like the items from the Laboratory, except that they may give more positive effects. --TheDotGamer 07:43, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • Or it could be fixed, and that's why the trader is calling us simple people. Simpletons who'll trade ten shiny rocks for a worthless island or something ;-) Hen3ry 09:54, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • One thing to note - the potions do not use spleen like the wads - so its a way of getting extra stat multipliers beyond wads, as well as stacking w/ wads! --Grimdel 14:16, 4 January 2007 (PST)
      • Yeah, there are some extra effects being spaded out, looks like. And I guess if you're rolling in wads you wouldn't mind using 10 of them for a few turns of boosted stats. :) --rholliday 09:05, 5 January 2007 (CST)
  • I don't think the item changes every day, because the <item>-section does not really appear in the translation and it only reads "Hail to you, potential customer! Do I have a deal for you! I have traveled far, all the way from Distant Lands, to trade with you and your simple people! I have a great need for twinkly wads where I live, and I would be willing to trade you these wonderful items for any that you have." Maybe he visits the town every other week and needs a different item for the place he lives. --Beliar Lightbearer 06:06, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • For the record, if it does change from day to day, I claim the right to have his text say "<vgrz>" instead of 'gjvaxyl jnqf' --Unnatural20 07:28, 4 January 2007 (CST)
      • Seconded Dayv 08:09, 4 January 2007 (CST)
  • I beleive That he'll randomly dissapear and appear every couple of days, or may come once a week, and that he'll be searching for a different item and be selling different items every time he comes.--Jcj64200031 15:26, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • He has in fact left our fair continent, perhaps to return tomarrow in search of new items. Jihiro 22:17, 4 January 2007 (CST)
    • It'd definitely be a waste of a Tuesday(Wednesday, rather) update if he doesn't show up again. Besides, everyone likes collectables.--Thoby123 01:09, 5 January 2007 (CST)
  • Discussion during Jick's radio show on January 5 seemed to indicate that the Trader has been removed. --MrConspiracy 02:12, 7 January 2007 (CST)
    • Permanently? What a waste of an update. --Missingno 15:05, 8 January 2007 (CST)
    • Can we get some kind of a transcript on that somewhere? At least here in the talk page. (If there are already transcripts of radio shows somewhere that I don't know about well I'm dumb.) --Patware 18:33, 8 January 2007 (CST)
      • Someone has copied the relevant parts of the transcript to the forum (see post). --TheDotGamer 07:03, 9 January 2007 (CST)
  • He's back, this time only trading for bunches of bananas. I know nothing of how to deal with this in the wiki, so I'll just post this and hope someone who does know what they're doing sees this edit in the recent changes :) Changling bob 16:15, 27 February 2007 (CST)
  • Has anyone checked to see if having the hilarious encoder ring equipped decodes his text? --SketchySolid 23:52, 27 February 2007 (CST)
    • I did just then. It doesn't. --Jonzay 00:18, 28 February 2007 (CST)
  • The image still looks like he's selling the stuff from before, instead of banana bunches. --Thoby123 15:42, 28 February 2007 (CST)
  • It seems like he's gone again. Did this just happen today, or did it happen yesterday? --Fryguy9 20:06, 1 March 2007 (CST)

Twinkly wad sink

The article says:

"The January 16, 2007 Jick and Skullhead radio show suggested that the trader's initial disappearance was because the Trader was meant to sink twinkly wads, when in fact the number of twinkly wads in the economy surged due to people pulverizing equipment quickly to either trade in or sell the wads."

Well, duh. I'm sure Jick doesn't care specifically how many wads are in the economy; it's really a meat sink that is important. Jick mentioned in a show a couple of weeks ago that he was happy because 2.5 million wads worth of EQUIPMENT used to be in the economy that is now gone.

The overall effect is that it removes the autosell value of those items from the economy, and makes the remaining items that much more valuable as well (for the occasional items which can be malled for a profit). --Kazim 15:34, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

So it has now been over a year since our last TT visit, and I am flush with twinkly wads. If, as was suggested by Kazim, the TT acts as an autosell sink, would hoarding pulverizable items act as a sort of 'Trader Rain Dance'? --Lord Mellman 07:30, 25 August 2012 (CEST)

  • Nope. Well, not exactly. While I guess you are right about the autosell-part, the economy isn't influenced. Keeping items in your inventory doesn't influence the worth of items in the mall. For the economy, it makes no difference if you keep them in your inventory or your dc. The mall is what reflects the worth of an item. If the overall price in the mall would sink below a certain mark while at the same time providing a relatively limitless supply, items would looked upon as worthless. And if the average player can't sell something for profit, he will consider autoselling it. In a nutshell autoselling adds more new meat to the economy and diminishes the worth of meat as a currency between players. However even if all players would keep putting their pulverizeable equipment into the mall at minimum price, it would raise the attention of Jick & Co. but it wouldn't guarantee they could come up with some cool item anytime soon. --Yatsufusa 20:14, 25 August 2012 (CEST)

The Great Crossing reference

Finally found the image (http://asteriximages.dirtyrubbish.com/books/greatcrossing/img16.htm) that contains the interpretative dance, and I'm just not seeing the reference, and namely, the person they do the dance for just thinks they're crazy. If someone can better justify it, please put it back in with justification.--Foggy 12:46, 18 October 2007 (CDT)

Periodically?

Does he really appear periodically? If so, what's the period? I'm guessing he really appears occasionally. Limp zombie 22:21, 18 July 2008 (CDT)

Longest Gap Yet

Using the date calculator at timeanddate (.com):

From and including Tuesday, July 15, 2008
To, but not including Sunday, January 10, 2010
It is 544 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date
From and including Tuesday, August 23, 2011
To, but not including Thursday, February 21, 2013
It is 548 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

Long time since we've seen you mysterious trader. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 01:35, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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