Suggestions

Now, I love Swipp and his children. But, honestly, who is physically able to get anything from them?? It's really hard to try and get that one thing you want from them. There should be two subpages, or VERSIONS of swipp.

Swipp himself sells the rarer items like he does currently, but his children do something different. They have their own stand where they sell a lot more items at a time, less rarer items, and at a more reachable cost! Each item should be able to be bought in gems, treasure, OR trading other items in. Cool, right?

Oh, and one more thing. The new stand would have different categories of sell-ables each day of the week! So, example, mondays would be apparel, tuesdays familiars, wednesdays food, thursdays skin/accents, fridays special items like breed changing scrolls, etc. With a constant schedule, you could plan out when you can buy what sort of stuff! Like, if you're looking for a certain type of apparel, you wait for that certain day of the week and look for it!

Can't say I like this idea. While there's some problems with accessing Swipp's trades with how many exist now, the trades themselves aren't difficult to do unless they were intended to be difficult to do. There are a few items with aberrant difficulty curves, like Autumnal Wreaths (the materials used to be easier to get than they are now), but things like Blossom and Vermillion Epiptites were meant to be challenges to gather.

Mostly I really dislike the idea that you'd be able to pay gems or treasure for swap items. That goes against the point of Swipp. He's supposed to be an item sink, increasing the value of certain otherwise-junk things by letting you trade them in for cooler stuff, and his trades aren't supposed to have fixed prices. Treasure and gem items are already widely obtainable in the marketplace - or if you want to pay treasure for Swipp items, you can buy the needed components off other players in the Auction House.

I'm also not keen on giving Swipp a designation each day of the week, because while regularity is cool, there's some problems with how it works. If the new zone cycles in trades throughout the day like Swipp normally does, then you're going to be waiting much longer than you already will to get certain trades, since they can only appear on one day of seven. Even if it's guaranteed to stock every trade at least once on that day, it might roll in at 4 AM in your timezone, and then you're stuck waiting for next Apparel Monday. But even if all Monday trades are available all day... Monday might always be a busy day for you thanks to your IRL schedule, and you have little/no free internet access on that day of the week. There are many people who only play this site on weekends. That would make it much harder for them to get certain kinds of Swipp items.

I do agree Swipp could use some mechanic tweaking to make trades easier to find - more slots open at once, a cooldown period that doesn't let the same trade go twice in a row, et cetera. But I wouldn't want this drastic of a change to the way he functions.

I agree with a lot of Laluzi's points. Having designated days sounds like a good idea, but it may actually make some trades even rarer. It is also supposed to be an item sink, not a treasure one. The marketplace is the space for treasure trades for items.

Maybe it does need a tweak, but I don't think Swipps should be changed like that.

maybe a new dragon in the trading post, a shady dealer type character who just lets you submit materials for a trade and waits till swipp has is and does the trade automatically? but even that sounds like it has issues

theres players who do that but i dont trust like that