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Bloods · Mar 16, 2006, 11:29 PM // 23:29

To reduce spam, i think they should make a Trader's City wher they have these merchants or someting that u go up to and they show a list of gw players that have someting to trade. U can go up to the merchant and type wut u want to trade, wut u need, and wut ur ign is. So dat way u dont need to waste ur playing time pressing "Crtl+V". Any thoughts?

Kakumei · Mar 16, 2006, 11:43 PM // 23:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bloods

To reduce spam, i think they should make a Trader's City wher they have these merchants or someting that u go up to and they show a list of gw players that have someting to trade. U can go up to the merchant and type wut u want to trade, wut u need, and wut ur ign is. So dat way u dont need to waste ur playing time pressing "Crtl+V". Any thoughts?

You sure are big on saving time, huh!

You should probably rethink that next time you go to make any post anywhere ever.

EmperorTippy · Mar 16, 2006, 11:51 PM // 23:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bloods

To reduce spam, i think they should make a Trader's City wher they have these merchants or someting that u go up to and they show a list of gw players that have someting to trade. U can go up to the merchant and type wut u want to trade, wut u need, and wut ur ign is. So dat way u dont need to waste ur playing time pressing "Crtl+V". Any thoughts?

Leet speak is bad for the post. It tends to make us nto listen to your ideas.

But yes a trader city would be nice.

Gardar · Mar 17, 2006, 09:58 AM // 09:58

It's a nice Idea but please for your own health drop the "U,Wut and ur" it's really bad for your own language knowledge maybe not now but it will, and like EmperorTippy sayd it tends to make people ignore such posts.

IJs de Beer · Mar 17, 2006, 11:36 AM // 11:36

I wouldnt make a town called Traders city, im my point of few it sounds kinda gay ( not offensive to you 'Bloods' just giving my opinion bout this thread ).

But I do think its not such a bad idea. If you can make it somewhat like the Auction house for example in FFXI and put it in LA and some other big towns. Allthough Ive seen a lot of bugs and scams in that auction house. There also might be a little problem, Im pretty sure that it will make the expensive items go down in price very fast, maybe that isnt that bad anyways. Since there will be a lot of competition and uber players could price their items low since they allready got enough money. And about the whole balance thing in this game, I guess there should be a lot of adjusting to it.

-IJs-

Silent Kitty · Mar 17, 2006, 12:42 PM // 12:42

Trade cities will not work. The average trader is also a very active spammer, and has also a little of a scammer in him/her. Trading is no fun for them, when there is no potential of making a big profit out of an unsuspecting newbie. In the long run you'll see that traders will be runing from Ascalon and the trade city up and down, all the time.

LacLaxGoalie · Mar 17, 2006, 01:51 PM // 13:51

I agree with the auction house idea. It would be really nice to have an easier trading method, but then again you have to have good timing, because what if at the time of selling you only get to sell your ______________ for the minumum amount you pick, and if someone comes in and places that bet.... well you could be getting a better deal elsewhere probably. I wouldnt be surprised to see AN working on it actually.....

Wind of Horus · Mar 17, 2006, 01:55 PM // 13:55

it would be alot better than

random asian person: WTS ECTO...................1

random asian person: WTS ECTO...................2

random asian person: WTS ECTO..........~~~~

random asian person: WTS ECTO...................3

random asian person: WTS ECTO............4

LacLaxGoalie · Mar 17, 2006, 02:02 PM // 14:02

Hell it would be better than WTB _________, cuz noone actually has that Gold Shadow Bow of Fortitude
Firedmg 45-90
Armor+3,000
Health +700
SO STOP ASKING

Miss Selina · Mar 17, 2006, 02:24 PM // 14:24

How about a "75% of us are to stupid to use the proper channel and are rude, crude and socialy unattractive" Channel for the ignorant aggrivating bottom feeders!

jummeth · Mar 17, 2006, 07:07 PM // 19:07

Or you can set up a city or place where people can set up a vending stall. (sorry totally ripped from RO)

Make it like the NPC merchant dialogue and people can shop around. Of course this will increase server load by about 200x. But this is true of the msg spamming also.

Its a pity you can't really police the shout channel so that it forces people to spam on the trade channels.

Allanon Dark · Mar 18, 2006, 06:23 AM // 06:23

I sell stuff and i dont have any bit of a scammer in me. I usually trade things for a lot less than they are worth. Course that could just be that i want some money and I don't like to spend forever spamming "WTS *fill in blank*

warkst · Mar 18, 2006, 08:04 AM // 08:04

They called it... the Auctionhouse. Also see: WoW

/signed, I proposed this before

LaserLight · Mar 18, 2006, 08:13 AM // 08:13

Auction houses are, if I've heard correctly, a huge strain on bandwidth and server loads and make little sense with stuff like the GWG Guild Wars eBay up. As for trader's cities and all the rest, good and noble ideas, but ultimately futile. As has been stated, the typical trader is a farmer with more aggression than intelligence who is looking to make a killing by selling something at well above market value to an overawed, undereducated rookie and would simply avoid areas where more intelligent players would call him on crap. He'd stay nicely planted in Lion's Arch and spam "WTS Artificial Breasts" or whatever he's trying to make gold off of that day in the Local channel.

That's the way it is, that's the way it was, that's the way it's always gonna be. Unfortunately >_<.

Aera · Mar 18, 2006, 09:03 AM // 09:03

If I recall this correctly, I think I heard Gaile saying something about an ingame auctionsystem like the trades here once...but it can also be that someone made it up

ions · Mar 18, 2006, 08:49 PM // 20:49

In game trading system where you list what you want to sell is very much needed. Global list of all items for sale ... dividing in to categories based on weapons, mods, material etc...

I usually don't even read green text. I just read team text or guild text so I don't care if they spam. On top of that once a rookie knows there is a trading list they will always refer to it so the scammer spammer will be eliminated.

It doesn't even have to be an auction. It could just be a list stating what you want to sell and your name. You place how long you want it to be up there for ... maybe 5 minutes to 24 hours. If you are not online it is removed from the list. Once you come back online it once again appears on the list.
Then I just message you and tell you were to meet and make the regular trade. Simple to implement cuts down on all the spamming of wts etc..

This list system is very necessary because the current trading system is garbage and only wastes people's precious time. I know people that try to sell things for 2 hours. This a tragedy and it is harmful to your brain.

I don't even try to sell anymore and if I do, I sell things cheap cause the time it takes to sell it for the appropriate price is not worth it.

mrbb · Mar 24, 2006, 10:46 PM // 22:46

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Originally Posted by Aera

If I recall this correctly, I think I heard Gaile saying something about an ingame auctionsystem like the trades here once...but it can also be that someone made it up

In Factions, Gaile told they are looking into a in game trading system. I can't bother to look up the thread (cuz I'm lazy) but it is in the Factions forums. Someone posted pictures of the whole Gaile conversation. When is it going to be done? Who knows...

I like the trading city/auction house system. There should be a way for you to move your items to a for sale box, similar to putting them in storage where you'd set your sale price. This would make it easy because any potential buyer could take a look at the item stats. Of course there would also be some sort of search system. Potential buyers could then just buy it at that price or make you a counteroffer.

As for crafting materials, players should be able to sell them to the materials trader. The materials trader makes a hefty profit between its buy/sell price that is unrealistic. Make the material trader pay more for my wood (9g) and I'll sell it to them. Merchants should adjust to player transactions. I know this is hard to do but maybe the program could see that merchants are not selling much wood or no one is buying wood from them so they would adjust the spread.