Please Revise the Auction House!!!!

[Xerius]

I don't know about the majority of you but, I make most of my money off of the Auction House and I think that being forced to pay $1 for an extra 7 AH slots is a bit harsh. Most MMO's today don't even limit the number the items that you can place on the AH house and the one's that do usually have pretty steep limits closer to 20 or so.

Also, I think it needs to be taken out of the dark ages. I think that instead of just putting up an item and waiting for someone to buy it, I think you should be able to put up buy orders. Similar to how you can buy stuff in FFXIV's bazaar system or at least how it was the week I played FFXIV. This would be a boon to crafters that could just set up a buy order for how many of an item they need and just tweek the going price every day or so.

And lastly, I think that whole having to take an order down to change anything about it is a bit out-dated too. Why can't I just go into a little screen and adjust the price and pay a little extra tax for it? I mean these are features that a standard in a lot of MMO's but due to FFXI's age seem to be overlooked. I know that there's more dire, "balancing" issues at hand but I think ease and accessibilty in the Auction House isn't too much to ask for.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

They already said that upping the AH even one slot could be disastrous for the server. Don't forget unlike the newer games this one was programmed years ago and poorly at that.

You can use 100% of a CPU easily with poorly written code, it's not much different on a server.

[FrankReynolds]

The fact that they can support 10 mules posting 7 items each, but it causes a server meltdown if one character posts 8 items is pretty laughable. Funny stuff.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

The fact that they can support 10 mules posting 7 items each, but it causes a server meltdown if one character posts 8 items is pretty laughable. Funny stuff.

it wouldn't be one character.

Seeing as how the vast majority only sell items on one account, and use mule accounts simply for storage the number would be tiny compared to EVERY single person on a server gaining one more slot.

[FrankReynolds]

it wouldn't be one character.

Seeing as how the vast majority only sell items on one account, and use mule accounts simply for storage the number would be tiny compared to EVERY single person on a server gaining one more slot.

I wonder if that's more stress on the server than having 1,000 mules logged on 24/7 with a bazaar full of crap items on every server?

[RAIST]

Going from 7 to 8 is potentilly a 14-15% increase in data transferred per character--that is potentially every time someone queries the AH system for a status, as well as an increase in the volume of what is being bought/listed as well, so potentially an instant 14% increase to server load. Even if it wouldn't have a noticeable impact at the server level, there is still the issue with how it will affect data transfer to/from the clients. They are still trying to support dialup after all, then there are the issues with the high latency and bandwidth throttling. Remember, this game is not sectioned off regionally---some people are dealing with upwards of 200 ms latency to JP at times, and the ISP's over there (as well as other regions and their strange issues like we recently saw with BT/O2) have congestion issues and connections are choked down at times as well. Those other regionally divided games do not face such challenges as bad as we do with FFXI.

[Llana_Virren]

I wonder if that's more stress on the server than having 1,000 mules logged on 24/7 with a bazaar full of crap items on every server?

Those mules aren't really affecting the server at all... just the clients who can't dumb down their graphics settings when strolling through Port Jeuno.

[Godofgods]

The fact that they can support 10 mules posting 7 items each, but it causes a server meltdown if one character posts 8 items is pretty laughable. Funny stuff.

The only thing laughable is your argument. You know that if they upped it, even to 8, the only thing that would change is we would know have 10 mules posting 8 items. Its not like upping the AH slots would reduce mules. Ppl would just npc one less item and throw it up. (Which would be nice actually.)

The one thing mentioned that i did like tho, would be the ability to change the price of an item without having to take it down entirely and re-listing it. That would come in handy to.

[Behemothx]

The fact that they can support 10 mules posting 7 items each, but it causes a server meltdown if one character posts 8 items is pretty laughable. Funny stuff.

If having more than 7 items on AH causes server problems, they seriously need to hire competent programmers...

[Juilan]

If having more than 7 items on AH causes server problems, they seriously need to hire competent programmers...

ill work for half what they're paying one of their current team