Suggestion for Auction Houses

[Abeosin]

Hello! I'm a returning player, and I had an idea for how to improve the returning/new player experience.

The auction house is currently barren in terms of lower level gear and materials. The reason for this is that people can only sell 7 things at a time and there's no guaranty that a slow moving item would sell in any reasonable amount of time.

My idea is to implement an NPC near each auction house that you can sell things to like any other NPC. It could pay out that exact same gil as any other NPC.

The difference would be that this NPC would then list the items sold to them on the auction house for either the NPC value of the item or the average gil price of the last 100 confirmed purchases.

The gil that goes toward buying items listed by the NPC would just be removed from the economy. It would incentivize people to get rid of materials or old gear in a way that helps stimulate the economy rather than falling to dust or simply leading to inflation.

[Sirmarki]

That definitely wouldn't work.

Can you imagine the amount of shields and other stuff people NPC for gil on the AH(?), it would be overwhelmed.

[Abeosin]

There could simply be a limit to how many of one item the server posts.

[Alhanelem]

This doesn't make any sense. If you just want to dump items like this quickly, just list them for 1 gil and people will pay what they want. Sure, in some cases, this is people vendoring items because they won't sell for more on the AH, but generally, if that happens, it's because it's not really hard to get those items yourself.

Also: The main reason there isn't much lower level gear/items on the AH is because there is an infinite supply of the basic stuff available from the Sparks of Eminence NPCs.

[Sirmarki]

There could simply be a limit to how many of one item the server posts.

That would require a lot of background programming and that simply won't happen.