Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.55.5 — The Trader's Cut Works On Amber-boosted Wardens Too ==
* THE TRADING POST COULD BE FARMED FOR FREE AMBER, and the richer you were the better it paid. The trader's 25% cut is meant to be the reason you can't just buy from him and sell straight back — but every bonus that raised what he PAYS you (the [[Ancestral Monument]], [[Amber]] Affinity, Friend of Wardens) left what he CHARGES exactly where it was. Past about +25% amber gain his cut had eaten itself, and past that he was paying more than he asked.
* HIS PRICES NOW CARRY YOUR BONUS TOO, so the cut is a real 25% at every level of amber gain instead of only for wardens with no bonus at all. IN PRACTICE NOTHING CHANGES FOR YOU: if your amber income is up 55%, the trader's asking price is up 55%, and a day's shopping costs exactly the share of your income it always did. What stops working is buying and immediately selling for a profit — which was never meant to work.
* '''The real trade is untouched.''' Buying on a Surplus day and selling on an In-demand day is still the whole game at the [[Trading Post]], and still pays exactly what it always did — the profit is in WAITING, which is what the spread was always there to insist on.
* The same hole let the BANK outbid the trader's own asking price on nineteen of the twenty-six goods once your amber gain was maxed. That is closed by the same change.