Official trade ratio used and posted in the trade section of the forums, were never decided by administration aka neoshagrath is wrong.
Same is the deal with War rules.

All these have been created by the playerbase, gathered-organized-managed by ZE forum mods (Slash/Istalris played the biggest part in this If I recall correctly). Now, since the head forum administrator is no longer an admin but a player (Weresloth) I suppose that he holds the key for any decisions affecting such things.

As administration, we have always avoided (and will avoid) to interfere at these rules.