I also found a way to directly make money from the shop.(this was before we started talking about changing the shops).
If your goal was to make bartering and trading more prominent wouldnt it make sense to add a plugin, like chest shop, to make it easier more profitable, and fully automatic player shopsNot sure how chest shops would cater to trading and player interaction when the plugin does the opposite. Besides generally not liking the plugin, I think having a main shop is good enough (or bad enough?), and I could see things becoming messy very quickly if we gave people that kind of option.
Yes that's exactly why I dislike the chest shops idea. You kids out there could learn a thing or two by experiencing a real trade interaction with some of your fellow players ;)If your goal was to make bartering and trading more prominent wouldnt it make sense to add a plugin, like chest shop, to make it easier more profitable, and fully automatic player shopsNot sure how chest shops would cater to trading and player interaction when the plugin does the opposite. Besides generally not liking the plugin, I think having a main shop is good enough (or bad enough?), and I could see things becoming messy very quickly if we gave people that kind of option.
The player interaction I'm speaking of is actually talking to a player, providing the goods you have, discussing prices, and trading things in that sense. Chest shops would only take away from that even more.
if youre worried about a big mess, make it for trusteds onlyI don't personally think that should always be the answer to everything, after all the server consists of mainly non trusted players, so I don't see that as being a fair alternative. I stand by my opinions on chest shops.
We have a donation chest command, you can use /cdonation (if I'm remembering correctly) and anybody can pop along and put whatever they want in the chest without having access to taking items out.
Is this what you mean?