Introducing the Trade-House Idea (Offline Trading)
" i like the idea i played games who had this and it worked out great I don't know who u are.
I don't know wat u like But as soon as u see me U will die in my sight. Ranger |
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I'm sorry but I am seriously against auction houses. I hate having to wait for the items I want to buy actually be bought. Why not just implement a straight first come first served market?
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" A properly done auction house does have a "first come first serve" market. Take E-Bay for instance, or Dungeon Fighter Online, if you want the item now, there is no bidding necessary or worry about being beaten at the last second with a snipe-bot, you always have the option to use the "buy it now" button. Of course that price is usually over what the bids are going for, but if you just gotta have your new unique armor right now, it is well within your ability to have it. Furthermore, if you were worried about the market as a whole not having certain rare or valuable items in circulation in the auction house, is this really a problem? Shouldn't rare things stay rare? The only problem I see in an auction house, or NPC armor and weapon dealers in general, for this game is that the Developers have already stated that they will not be using gold as a currency, instead what there will be is barter with a few rare drops that help the players a lot, as stated here: http://www.pathofexile.com/news/2011-02-08/dev-diary-currency So unless NPC's and auction houses have a complex system of values and weights based around the 9 (to be 25 by release) different types of "currency," such things will not be able to work, as ticking off 3 of X, 2 of Y, 5 Z, 1 Q, etc.. for each type of "currency" for each trade would be tedious. |
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I still think there is no better system than the one I proposed ;P
However I'm unsure if I added this, but based on the above post, there definitely should be a 'buy it now' with a combination of currency items that the seller will take 100%, and if offered it would cancel all other bids and win. If you have account problems please [url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Email Support[/url]
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I hope they implement suggested value's for items based on trades of a certain period (say a month). This would make it possible for noobs to get a feeling of the value of their items, so they aren't helpless and blatantly ripped off. But experienced traders who know the difference between the suggested value and the market value can still get a little premium.
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" i don't think that this is possible because of the random stats on the items... |
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People can always check to see how much the NPC vendor offers them for the item and base off of that.
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I think a system like this could be more trouble than it's worth in a game with a purely itemised currency. IMO it would be best to just have a nice trade section in the forums. Where there are fields specifically for the current bid, time limit and instant buy price.
IGN: SpudOfDoom | The Exiled - Path Of Exile's oldest clan
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I'm kinda against the AH thing. It would most likely lead to that some ppl wouldn't even go outside to kill things, just speculate in the AH, sell this buy that and such. Of course it's still possible to do this, without AH, but much more time consuming.
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Not having an auction house would make it nearly impossible for the community to have a smoothly functioning economy.
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