Auction House - Remove 7 item listing cap

[Alderin]

In the weapons / armour topic - being no weapons / armour for lower levels is true, but I will be honest if something sells for 10k and NPC's for like 3k.. I would probably just NPC it because the value of gil has gone down sooooo much these days..

Unless there was a way to seperate the amount of weapons / armour you can put up depending on level.. So let's assume 5 pieces (so a full set), could be put up for Lvl 1-40, 41-60, 61-75, 75-90, 91-99 (or something similar) for a total items of 25 pieces of gear you could effectively sell..

My assumption as to why they lowered it from 10 to 7 items is due to RMT's spamming the market. For every 100 RMT's they are putting up an extra 30 items up on AH.. Which does add up.

The other assumption as to why they added a timer on bidding on the AH is because of AH camping bots / people buying everything on the AH to power skill a craft or synth, or to prevent people from buying everything of one particular item for 10k a stack and selling for 12k a stack..

As I said they are just assumptions, and the RMT issue is much lower now then it used to be (flash backs of 40 fishing bots standing in Batallia downs). So I agree, increasing the number back up to 10x items would work.

I also agree with removing the time that dumps it back to your AH. It would increase the number of lvl 1-75 gear that is available.

[annewandering]

Maybe they could do the AH a little differently. If you could put up gear in one set of slots, food in another, tools in another etc. That way if there is a problem with more than 7 it would be broken into categories and not all go in AH as one set of sales items.

[KorPoni]

Maybe they could do the AH a little differently. If you could put up gear in one set of slots, food in another, tools in another etc. That way if there is a problem with more than 7 it would be broken into categories and not all go in AH as one set of sales items.

Great idea anne, I'd love to see them work on that after they merger all the AHs.

[ThaiChi]

@ Eek : This is totally off topic but dude, your sig is killing me! LOL

[Kaida]

I'd rather it be 7 then have no AH because it crashes all the time again.

[RAIST]

I think the listing count was nerfed before it came to the US. Guides for crafting and such as far back as 2003 even mention that you are limited to 7 slots. It's been 7 since I joined in early 05, and I remember it being a hot topic even back then--and back then it was debated more along the lines of server lag if I remember right. I've seen it lags at times now with just 7 slots when I'm spread out my items on different AH's. Hopefully when they merge all the AH's most of that potential lag will go away and they can see to increasing the limit later (up to 7 queries for your GUID to one table are a lot faster then splitting up a mix of up to 7 across 4 tables)--but not likely until after the merge happens and they can verfiy that aspect.

Raist

[GlobalVariable]

I think the listing count was nerfed before it came to the US. Guides for crafting and such as far back as 2003 even mention that you are limited to 7 slots. It's been 7 since I joined in early 05, and I remember it being a hot topic even back then--and back then it was debated more along the lines of server lag if I remember right. I've seen it lags at times now with just 7 slots when I'm spread out my items on different AH's. Hopefully when they merge all the AH's most of that potential lag will go away and they can see to increasing the limit later (up to 7 queries for your GUID to one table are a lot faster then splitting up a mix of up to 7 across 4 tables)--but not likely until after the merge happens and they can verfiy that aspect.

Raist

I was logged in when one of the listing adjustments happened. I think it was when it reduced from 8 to 7, and had already been reduced from 10 before that. But it's been years so I don't remember well. I definitely remember in game server message warnings about the AH problems that did not get corresponding messages on the playonline site, unlike years later when we were told the AH was having probs because of DDoS attacks.

Oh hey, a little off topic but does anyone remember teh day we all got a server message asking us to empty our delivery and mail boxes?

[Kaida]

nerfed 07/09/2002. Good read. good memories

http://jpbutton.bluegartr.com/?p=157

Good old JP button

[DrDelicious]

nerfed 07/09/2002. Good read. good memories

http://jpbutton.bluegartr.com/?p=157

Good old JP button

thanks for doing the legwork

[Kaida]

thanks for doing the legwork

NP enjoying reading what has changed over the years.

Like Bind sticking until it wore.

being able to disengage reengage to avoid weapon delay.

*old man voice* This is what we did back in the day and we liked it! nrrrrrrrrr