It's time for the bazaar...

[Dezik]

Originally Posted by sox7d [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if you want convenient and interactionless trading, i heard <EVERY OTHER FUCKING MMO> was good for that. check it out sometime

1,000,000 times this. There is a reason why I play here instead of those other MMO's.

[Tecmos Deception]

wru not classic swish gif?

[Vidar]

My problem with the Bazaar was that you have mostly afk people being 'merchants'. I prefer wheeling and dealing. You cant do that with an afk player. Not to mention i will not leave eq running 24/7 trying to sell stuff. How they got the bazaar so wrong ill never know. WoW got it right. Its sad...

Just make an auction house like Wow or Diablo 3 where you post stuff for sale and leave and play the game. Later you come and pick up your money if it sold.

Any kind of bazaar or auction house is the total opposite of EC so they shouldnt try and keep it EC-like. It wont be. If you try and make an auction house or bazaar like EC ...but not... it will be shit just like it was on live.

[Xelris]

Originally Posted by Vidar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My problem with the Bazaar was that you have mostly afk people being 'merchants'. I prefer wheeling and dealing. You cant do that with an afk player. Not to mention i will not leave eq running 24/7 trying to sell stuff. How they got the bazaar so wrong ill never know. WoW got it right. Its sad...

Just make an auction house like Wow or Diablo 3 where you post stuff for sale and leave and play the game. Later you come and pick up your money if it sold.

Yes, they got it right.

They got it so right that you could practically automate selling your shit. In fact, you can! When you compete on those systems, you're up against a relentless undercutting machine that takes almost all the dynamics out of selling pixels. It also encourages, directly and indirectly, "gold farming".

I honestly don't even like the fact that we have an auction tracker that some people refuse to deviate from at all, which takes liquidity away from a true supply/demand barter system except for some super-high demand items, but that's the way it's done here (and yes, it is convenient).

[Vidar]

Originally Posted by Xelris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes, they got it right.

They got it so right that you could practically automate selling your shit. In fact, you can! When you compete on those systems, you're up against a relentless undercutting machine that takes almost all the dynamics out of selling pixels. It also encourages, directly and indirectly, "gold farming".

I honestly don't even like the fact that we have an auction tracker that some people refuse to deviate from at all, which takes liquidity away from a true supply/demand barter system except for some super-high demand items, but that's the way it's done here (and yes, it is convenient).

I totally agree about the auction tracker and the undercutting. The thing is even with a bazaar that would happen. so you might as well do a real auction house. Id prefer to just leave it as EC. Im not saying EC cant be improved on. I'm just saying its better than the Bazaar or an auction house.

[odiecat99]

Originally Posted by Vidar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I totally agree about the auction tracker and the undercutting. The thing is even with a bazaar that would happen. so you might as well do a real auction house. Id prefer to just leave it as EC. Im not saying EC cant be improved on. I'm just saying its better than the Bazaar or an auction house.

I say leave EC alone and download gamtxttriggers... problem solved.

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by Vidar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just make an auction house like Wow or Diablo 3 where you post stuff for sale and leave and play the game. Later you come and pick up your money if it sold.

Or make an official forum where you can post what you have for sale or want to buy.

[Swish]

Then maybe EC needs to be coded so that people can only use a public channel (auc/shout/ooc) once every 15/20/30/x seconds...slow the spam down. It's too fast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll look for the sled dog gif, I think I might have lost it though when Rogean stole our guestbooks (had them all stored/linked there at the time) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Millburn]

NO SWISH

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[Pint]

ec is thriving and spam is too fast to read, sounds excellent