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This may be an unpopular idea or take, but I suggest that Art be taken out of the markets. It just feels like really cool pieces that people make get sent to the markets to die when they could just be selling them in private sales for reasonable prices.
By Mindhunter at Jul 21, 2026, 11:03 AM
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Or simply make it much cheaper and reasonable at Mix price. like.. 5k to 10k.
By Beepboop at Jul 21, 2026, 11:04 AM
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Yea, Beepboop, maybe an adjustment on the prices even! Not to undervalue someones work but some of the prices are unrealistic, IMO.
By Mindhunter at Jul 21, 2026, 11:07 AM
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The Mix is full of starving, jobless people so it'd make sense that they'd sell things at much cheaper price instead of.. y'know.. 100k to 200k art pieces, it should extend to clothes too, including progcloth.
This would allow people to grab art pieces or super expensive clothes up, and reuse them.
By Beepboop at Jul 21, 2026, 11:09 AM
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Art pieces end up in the market either from not being installed in an apartment evicting or in more cases I imagine people removing other people's artwork to sell in the market. It's a very frustrating situation where artists aren't meant to create art just to sell in the market, but others can buy artwork for a cheap IC price, or uninstall it from places, and immediately sell it in the markets.
I've previously suggested allowing artists to set their own inspect trade value on artwork that cannot go over the coded value roll of it https://sindome.org/bgbb/game-discussion/ideas/allow-artists-to-lower-work-value.-3298/
Which I think would solve a lot of these problems.
(Edited by crashdown at 11:28 am on 7/21/2026)
By crashdown at Jul 21, 2026, 11:28 AM
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If the cap to selling something at the market is a low set amount plus an item then it is kind of weird that the art piece is then turned around and listed at 25x that limit.
I don't think that anyone is going to buy them for that, where as if it were set at a reasonable rate, players might buy that art again and display it in their properties.
By Mindhunter at Jul 21, 2026, 5:14 PM
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I like crashdown's suggestion, but also wanted to add an addendum to the original post: what if we have art galleries on Red and Gold and Green? Blue is IC unattainable for the majority of the playerbase and I have always thought it a shame that old art is either too expensive or forgotten. An art bazaar that is more accessible to the wider player base may also help in addition to cost adjustments.
By meowlorde at Jul 23, 2026, 1:11 AM
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Make art that hits the markets get dirty. Reducing the value significantly. It has to be cleaned by someone with enough art skill to restore some of it. if they suck, it can get damaged and require another canvas to do repairs with. When it's dirty, kill some of the words with brown randomly, as if dirty blotches.
By Mythologique at Jul 28, 2026, 6:03 PM
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That would be a nice use for the forensics skill maybe make it need art and forensics?
(Edited by Rillem at 6:04 pm on 7/28/2026)
By Rillem at Jul 28, 2026, 6:04 PM
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