yes as a money drag I agree sale tax works fine, BUT you have to believe that with the current system the number of transactions on the TL has been crippled because people are encouraged to hold on to their players for a long time.
You put the tax on profits (plus a fixed amount or percentage that has always been there) and more people will list players, therefore there will be more transactions. The effect on the money sunk is inconclusive, it vastly depends on the behaviour of users today and how many more transactions it would bring. For example: if nobody today lists a player when the tax is more than 5%-10%, it's possible that shifting to a profit system will not decrease the money sunk if the number of transactions increase enough.
And yes the underlying problem with the market has always been the lack of price clarity and players being priced correctly especially at the top end of the skill count. I stopped playing Hattrick although I was in D3 in a 7 tier nation and in Hattrick it was much rarer to get massive bargains price wise. You could see the comparables, and the price variance was very low. If you trained you knew pretty closely how much money you'd make in advance. I'm not saying that was due to the Autobid feature they have, but I'm pretty sure it helped as you had autobids in most auctions.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 6/21/2017 4:34:23 AM