AfterWorld Survival Forum

I think a big part of why they came up with the Trading skill and all the related skills, plus the NPC in the swamp is because so many people want a TT. For years people have complained that there is no use for lots of the loot we get from hunting and wanting to dump it into a TT to get at least some of their AWD back. By using all of the loot in crafting and trading it back to the NPC we can all get a pretty good amount of what we initially spent in crafting.

We get skills from hunting and skills from crafting and now skills for trading things in that we can't sell or don't want to bother with trying to sell or use. In addition we get a portion of what we spent in obtaining the loot back as IOUs that we can turn into AWD. I think it's a pretty smart way of introducing a TT that won't mess with the economy and still allows us to get some of our investments back even when there's nobody buying anything.