I do have a topic for this meeting. Market Underpayment, which unfortunatly is still happening.
I hardly venture into the market. I only sell 4 things, which are ice, shulker boxes with music discs in them and then tridents and nautilus shells with ABP and Spec. Of these 4 items I sell only the ice has not had underpayment happen to them. This is frankly ridiculous and I have noticed no improvement since I last brought it up 9 months ago (Meeting
https://zedwork.co.uk/wiki/Zedling_Coun ... 2018-06-30). It is still happening and still people are getting shorted time after time.
The notes from last time say the following:
Dax was the bravest member of the council this meeting, as he put up another thrilling market topic for us to all see. This particular topic called up recent underpayment. There has been strings of players getting shorted in various ways; be it underpayment or outright theft. It was generally stated that if you see something, say something, no matter of how severe the underpayment is or if you do not care to be compensated. Zedwick has enough trouble trying to play detective with just one report, why not help him by submitting one of your own? This helps to know because it is easier to tell if the underpayments can be traced to one serial-thief individual or a multitude of people that accidentally mis-counted. Please note, per Zedwick's statement, if you are found underpaying in the market a ban will be issued, no matter if you are a new player or an LVS veteran.
Note that last bit. While some bans have been issued for repeat offenders the vast majority of these are people for the first time misreading (or in one case, having a recource pack cut the last word of a line that said "2 Diamond Blocks" completly changing the meaning of it which according to mojang works as intended. I could rant about that for weeks but I'll save that for another time) the signs or price tags and paying wrongly, and promptly corrected thier error when it was pointed out. People like this don't deserve (or indeed get) the same punishment as those who would blast multiple peoples builds into tiny bits and pour lava over the crater.
Still this is an issue that needs to be addressed in some fashion.
What is causing the issue? The vast majority of incorrect payments I have seen have been where diamonds have been payed in place of diamond blocks, a 9 times reduction in price. Or indeed, other recources given where the block version was requested. It will likely help this issue if we stopped charging for things in blocks, instead using on numbers of diamonds. So instead of 2 diamond blocks you'd put 18 diamonds which is equivilent. This falls down when asking for over 64 diamonds as it becomes awkward paying with more than 1 stack of things. But anyway, we shouldn't need to do any of that as the buyer should actually read (and finish reading, not just stop before the word blocks) the price.
Currently there is pretty much zero deterrent from underpaying the first time as you'll get away with it if as soon as Zedwick brings it up you say it was a mistake and go pay properly.
So what could be done about it? If anyone has any ideas, please please please post them in this forum rather than bringing them up in the meeting I would like it to last less than 40 years.
Some thoughts:
-Implement the ability to ban people from the market, so a Zedlings privilages of market access can be revoked to use as a punishment for first time offenders without banning them outright.
-Any automatic system to detect underpayment would need to be vastly complicated to correctly read the numerous ways sellers display thier prices and would likely be an impossibility.
-Have somebody go around the market every 1 or 2 weeks to check all the chests for underpayment, which would make it easier for Zedwick to indentify the crime by narrowing down the timeframe. I beleive this was discussed last time but amounted to doing it in a wolly neighborhood way, which may or may not have helped and is not in the notes anyway.