I have seen that kind of format, or something similar in at least 10 other games.

I am not taking anything.

I think the goal of the this game is to be the best. you can't be the best if you just take pieces of other games and thats it, we need something unique. and i guess my statement came out wrong.

Using items to reduce hospital time is not unique (potion,mana, med kits, first aid kits, restore, drugs).  I agree with you on the making this game the best but the point was using an item to reduce hospital time.  That can pretty describe any battle based game on the net.

10% looks high why buying n reselling items.

5% wud be much better

You can't be 100% unique in EVERYTHING you do. I mean, the fact that this is a browser-based game isn't unique. A prison-based game isn't unique. It's all about executing it the best in my opinion.

I guess so, but seems like we are just putting together a group of games, still a good game though, but yeah

 I hear what you are saying there, but here was my thinking.

By have a drug item to get out of the hospital it could expand in the following ways.

1.  Could be grown (by the land feature that isn't implemented).  Land to grow the crops, and land to put a processing facility on the land to make the "painkillers"

2.  Could be an additional item in exploring to be found (if Warden decided).

3. Could be stolen from the infirmary across prision in crimes. (if Warden decided)

4. Amenitie(s)/Equipment that could add to the effect like "2 times more effective painkillers."

5. Another item that could be bought/sold/traded in the markets or directly between players.

Obviously I haven't seen all of those features, and other people can probably even think of additional ones.  Sorry if I didn't make a ton of sense yesterday, was trying to play/read/respond in the short period of time I had yesterday.

I've dumbed the system down considerably. now it's just a flat $100 fee to send items. No escrow, which means it's up to you to make sure the other person isn't going to stiff you.

Hi i havnt been on long but from what ive read ive got to say i really agree with compton and why should people get charged 2x10% 1x10% for the seller and 1x10% for the buyer people are just going to go to the open market. Im always open to suggestions and would say from my own view of online games any new changes are not always the best and some times discourage old players from continueing to play but i hope this doesnt happen and good luck in what ever you decide

10% from both parties does not equal 20%.

Just because I've seen this error more than once in this thread, I'm going to give you guys a little math lesson. I'll keep this uber simple so nobody gets lost.

Let's say two people are making a trade of two items (Person A is giving Item A to Person B in exchange for Item B), both items are valued at $100.

10% of Item A = $10 ( 100/10 = 10 ).

10% of Item B = $10 ( 100/10 = 10).

Now, here's the tricky part!

10% of Item A and Item B = $20 ( 200/10 = 20 ).

Now, this doesn't matter, because people are charged a flat fee of $100 to trade as-is (very freaking cheap by the way. Hooray!). But I hope this helped clear up some unnecessary fears of percentages.