Merge auction-houses across all servers

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10-19-2015, 06:41 AM
Jile

Merge auction-houses across all servers

In any other year I would not be making this suggestion but given the economy of 2015 and the decline of the playerbase I think this might help.

All server's auction houses should be merged into a single auction house. SE dev's, is this possible?
10-19-2015, 07:13 AM
Tidis

Would be pretty cool if it were possible, I suspect it probably isn't!
10-19-2015, 07:29 AM
Alhanelem

No, they shouldn't do this. But what they should do is merge the servers themselves instead.
10-19-2015, 09:26 PM
gtag

yes, they should do this. and open up the servers so you have to pick your server every time you log in, that way people who want to play on full server can, and people who want to solo can look for a server thats empty. everyone's a winner.
10-20-2015, 01:11 AM
Alhanelem

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Originally Posted by gtag

yes, they should do this. and open up the servers so you have to pick your server every time you log in, that way people who want to play on full server can, and people who want to solo can look for a server thats empty. everyone's a winner.

Or they could just merge the servers and then i don't have an extra button to press before logging in.
10-20-2015, 02:21 AM
gtag

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Or they could just merge the servers and then i don't have an extra button to press before logging in.

lol one extra button to press. is that so hard to do? might take you 2 seconds.
10-20-2015, 02:48 AM
Alhanelem

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Originally Posted by gtag

lol one extra button to press. is that so hard to do? might take you 2 seconds.

Well, the servers really should be merged. And most likely after doing so, they won't need to implement any new features to address the issue at hand. So i'd rather they do something that really needs to be done, and then after that they can look at doing more if it's really necessary.
10-20-2015, 03:56 AM
bazookatooth

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Originally Posted by gtag

lol one extra button to press. is that so hard to do? might take you 2 seconds.

This would end up just like Unity chat. 5,000 people on one server and you can't log in after DCing mid fight. Meanwhile all the other servers are empty and you can't do anything on them but solo.
10-20-2015, 11:11 AM
Ladynamine

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jile

In any other year I would not be making this suggestion but given the economy of 2015 and the decline of the playerbase I think this might help.

All server's auction houses should be merged into a single auction house. SE dev's, is this possible?

Merging AH's to 1 universal AH would be too difficult for the development team to program to function properly along w/ the server congestion it would cause. I would not be shocked this would be the response we will get from the forum mods/dev. team following the ole "There are no plans to implement this request" thing.

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Originally Posted by Billnes

For the sake of argument, let's say that your linkshell is based on the Ragnarok server. What happens if you decide to play on different server? Your Linkshell is broken or "suspended" until you return to your home server? You'd be creating a technical issue that makes no financial sense to try to tackle. Too much work for too little reward.

Agreed.
10-20-2015, 11:36 AM
bazookatooth

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Originally Posted by Ladynamine

Agreed.

Not to mention the overlapping name issue. Although I guess they could address that by appending the server name to our names like FFXIV. Doesn't matter though, they won't do it. They'll wait until after November (probably January) and just merge a few servers like they said they would.
10-20-2015, 01:56 PM
Alhanelem

All that stuff would actually be a huger mess if they let you move from one server to another casually like that, than if they just merged them.
10-20-2015, 09:50 PM
Zarchery

If you merged the auction houses like that, wouldn't it be a larger number of people competing over a pool of listed items that's only slightly larger? For example, instead of 5 people fighting over a supply of 50 Buried Vestige during a 2 week period, you have 15 people fighting over a supply of 100.
10-21-2015, 02:15 AM
bazookatooth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zarchery

If you merged the auction houses like that, wouldn't it be a larger number of people competing over a pool of listed items that's only slightly larger? For example, instead of 5 people fighting over a supply of 50 Buried Vestige during a 2 week period, you have 15 people fighting over a supply of 100.

Maybe you would have 15 people fighting over a supply of 500 instead. who knows. Doesn't matter though.
10-21-2015, 05:52 AM
BurnNotice

Keep in mind that the population does increase when our JP friends play during their time. I came on around 3am EST this morning to check what was sold on my character, /sea all and found out we had over 770 people. During my play in the evening (5pm to 11pm), the most I see on is 394 or less daily.
10-21-2015, 05:55 AM
BurnNotice

I like the idea of a server merger, but I have this feeling that it probably won't workout :(
Too many unresolved issues (ie Instances and other battlefields).
10-21-2015, 04:16 PM
Morovich

Asura averages 500-600 during the week with about 800 on weekends, the numbers though do fluctuate.