If memory recalls, all beta worlds are under the beta branch rather than regional servers like US, EU, etc. I don't have an account on the beta branch to check, but you can probably find the world at this link if you login and look at the open servers.
Trading for resources would be faaaaaar too powerful. Oh you're sending a CS at me? Let me trade tons of resources/gold so I can seastorm you 40 times in quick succession and kill all the LS. As for trading favor, that could still be used to just hide favor for gods by making trades that no one...
They made several mistakes, including but not limited to
1) MMing TBC right before WWs and trying to get them to flip sides with the promise of a crown they couldn't keep
2) Attacking people who weren't online during fills to get them online to help
3) They took in sinkingdan, thereby forcing me...