The catalyst stalls
Simply put, you'd be able to build 3x3 catalyst stalls on your main farm, there'd be a limit of 1 of each type, and there be 5 different types (1 for each type of catalyst).
The stalls would be diamond buildings, each costing 10K diamonds to build.
When you click on a stall, a catalyst market specific to that stall will pop-up, each type of stall will have it's own market, and the market for the stall of rarer catalysts (eg. Legendary catalysts) will ask for more and harder to get items than the stalls of easier-to-get catalysts (eg. Ordinary catalysts).
The market contracts will be a little different, first of all,
you can't decline them you can only decline 1 contract per day (
@Blossom (SKN1)) and 2nd of all, they give catalyst tokens, if it's a rare catalyst stall, it'll give rare catalyst tokens and for a legendary catalyst stall, it'll give legendary catalyst tokens etc.
The catalyst tokens will be used to run stalls at a rate of 1 token/hour, and each stall will give 2 catalysts of their specific type per hour.
As well, there'd be 5 lvls to each stall, you buy the 1st lvl with diamonds, but you can only buy the next 4 lvl's temporarily with a specific type of edge plant.
What i mean is that a) there'd be 1 type of edge plant that produces wood assigned to each of the stalls, so bamboo to the ordinary catalyst stall and so on (rubber latex and cotton aren't assigned or used for any stalls) and b), to get to each lvl you'd need to donate a certain amount of an edge plant, but the stall would be consuming some of that edge plant every hour.
Taking the ordinary catalyst stall as an example, to get you lvl 2 you'd have to donate 1K of Bamboo (when you donate edge plants to stalls, they'll go to the stall's storage) and once the stall's at lvl 2, then it would consume 50 bamboo/hour.
To get to lvl 3, the stall would need 2K of bamboo in storage, and then it would consume 100 bamboo/hour, and for lvl 4 and 5 the amount of bamboo needed and consumed would double for each lvl, the maximum storage for edge plants would be 30K, and if you're at lvl 3 for example and the amount of stored bamboo goes below 2K, then the stall would automatically downgrade to lvl 2.
Of course, the stall only takes bamboo and produces catalysts if you complete contracts to get (in this case) ordinary catalyst tokens, if there's no ordinary catalyst tokens left, everything will be paused until you get some more

Now, the benefits of the extra lvl's, a lvl 1 stall gives 2 catalysts/hour, a lvl 2 gives 4 catalysts/hour, lvl 3 = 6/hour, lvl 4 = 8/hour and lvl 5 = 10 catalysts/hour.
Big thanks to "
@Exxy (INT1)" for helping to create and piece together this idea, please make sure to leave a comment and a like if you have any feedback to share

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And after all the markets that we already have, it did need to be a bit different
Thanks for the feedback though, i really appreciate it
A proposal must have feedback as well
You make good points, perhaps a setting where you could only decline 1 contract/day would be good?
I got another idea, for each of these 6 orders can you put away each of them once a day?
Thanks, umm, maybe, but also keep in mind that this market will work like the others, or at least the organic market, it's not going to ask for for honey or wax when you don't even have a flower farm, it'll ask for items depending a little on your farms capacity to produce them
Maybe your right, i don't know, but neither do you...
1 idea could change a lot, anyway, it's fun!
That's true, but they did already increase the number of catalysts given out, i'm not sure if they'll do so again.
And while i do understand your problems, i do think the lab is pretty great right now
Either way, maybe the catalyst stalls will be how they make catalysts more readily available
It does help you produce some seaweed, and it's boosters can help you out in events and to save seaweed, and, of course, you can produce gold (about 1800 per event) if you get the lab to it's max lvl and get all the legendary catalysts you can in the events
While i'm hardly going to deny that the catalyst offers are kinda ridiculous, they also sell trawlers for 640,000 gold
What they changed in the lab and how they handled the release of it has caused many players to leave the game, and many others are still really upset about it - regardless of what the new lab can make, the old lab is still greatly missed and that is intensified with how the change was rolled out.
As for your initial idea, I like that you're trying to think of ways for us to get more catalysts, but adding such complicated new features frustrates many players. There are a lot who are pining for when this was a simpler game & an actual farming game.
I don't like that you limited it to stalls on the MF only. If something like this were to happen, then they should be able to be placed on any farm just like the lab can be placed on any farm.
Many edge plants can be grown at a monetary loss, so this would be adding quite a cost to catalyst and not possible for many low level players to afford.
Even changing no contract can be deleted to 1 a day, doesn't seem quite right. All other markets don't have a limit, it wouldn't make sense for this one to. But maybe a longer time for a new one to appear such as the dairy contracts might be a better option.
I also don't like that it would be built with diamonds. There is already too much that needs diamonds and many players struggle to get enough to build or upgrade as it is. IMHO, it's too soon to add more that require diamonds at this stage.
You have good ideas and I like that your wheels are turning, I just can't back this one, as is, at this time.
Interesting, interesting:
1) While i agree with you on about the lab was rolled out, i'm not the kind of person to not like something just because other's don't like it, i understand that people have valid problems with how it was rolled up, but as far as i'm concerned, it's a good building and i'm going to use it, sorry
2) True, good point, thanks!
3) And in terms of your last points, while some of that is true, here's the beginning and end of the story i think, i'm just the person creating idea's, small tweaks like the how exactly the contracts operate or the numbers of the edge plants needed i'm going to leave to ggs, if they ever even read my idea.
And i'm also trying to create the idea balanced, if ggs wanted to hand out catalysts, they'd do it, though i have to say the new catalyst conversion offer is quite nice
Thank you so much for your interesting points and feedback, i really appreciate it
its 2 boxes with a % , the picture
You can trade precious or unique or legendary catalysts for rare catalysts
It has been put forward as an idea.
Dandy. I've been gone since the change to Premium Feed. Thought I'd try back. But this is [edited for language - Rosy] ridiculous.