Moreover, the developers also disabled wealth transfer on Nov. 1 after players reported a double exploit that allowed them to duplicate gold and items. It took almost three-and-a-half hours to get players to come back again. In this announcement, there is no date for players to trade again, but the team will update players on New World forums after they’re ready for return of wealth. Players received warnings after they tried the trading post in New World, as far as the announcement went live. When I write, the character select screen doesn’t show any notices about the outages. This is usually a procedure based on maintenance or serious interruptions. When trying to sell an item, the trader returns the nondescript warning about what is happening and what is being done with the exchange. The game does just say that trading is canceled after players try to buy their items from the trading post. It has devastating effects for New World players. Trades are no longer restricted to players who can sell their goods or buy armor from other adventurers. Any archer and musket user will have no option but to craft their own ammo while the price isn’t paid. If arrow supplies are very simple, crafting Gunpowder requires musket players to have Saltpeter on hand, so they’ll have to scavenge this resource through Aeternum if they don’t have many cartridges.
