Ive spoken to many players, and 9 times out of 10 they say that they wish we had the old system back. It was easy to use, took less time to make shops and was just overall better.
Yes the new stuff is good with the allowing coop members/trusted players to open the shop but that can all be done through commands really... But some stuff I dont see a use for? like the close/opening shop thing?
This new gui also takes alot more time to set up, once a sign is placed you have to open the gui, click the empty slots, click the item, type in chat the price, and then do it again for the thing you want to trade for, then you have to go back into the gui, and open the shop? why not just have the shop automatically open? This makes it a hassle to do multiple shops in large stores..

 

The open/close function allows the choice for people to close or open their shop, because sometimes you might want to temporarily close a shop, but not have to set it up when you open it again. I think I am in the minority who prefers the GUI layout, but I do wish there was a way with commands to make this work better

 

I agree the new signs formats are great, but they do need to be made more Intuative and have added options such as being able to buy/sell without the need of two signs on one chest.

On economy the old sign format works fine not sure why it wouldn't work on survival still

 

I still prefer the old shop system overall.

 

Well back in the day if you wanted to close a shop, you'd just take the item/grass out xd, and it may be faster for some people to click on the sign, navigate the new gui and then close/open the shop, but for me just breaking the sign and going back and putting on a new one felt easier as im still getting used to the new gui.

I have also encountered a few bugs with this, where ive clicked the close/open and it hasn't actually closed/opened? this may just be because of how laggy the server is atm.

 

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