Dr Murdoc Faust Niccals
I've been thinking; why don't they have a downgrade option at The Ole Fishing Hole? I wanted to make trout capes, and I had over 50 of each Tuna, but not enough trout. If there had been a downgrade option, I could have had my trout capes by now. Sure, there are user-made downgrading fish threads in the exchange forum, but a lot of them don't have an even 10-for-1 fish downgrading system, they all go based on MP fish value and personal value to create the downgrade/trade rates.
Yes, I can see there would be a slight problem with current MP costs of goldfish and guppies and would most likely cause slight inflation of bassken fish in the MP, but I think overall it would be a good idea.
This has been brought up quite a few times and it is agreed that it is a bad idea. The purpose of the exchange is to 'upgrade' what you have to get something better and trading down would allow a massive amount of small fish into the market. It is because of this sudden availability to small fish that the fishing market would see a deflation.
Imagine catching a rare fish and trading it down to small fish. Sudenly you 1,000 more guppies. Assume dozens of people do the same to take advantage of the high prices; the market will quickly decline and soon all of the fish have no value.
Nice idea, but it should not be done unless Gaia wants to upset a lot of people.