[Suggestion] Revamp Marketboard To Function Like WoW/EVE

Seriously. This needs to happen.

Who's going to buy 50 Calamari Ripieni to craft a couple of items.

There has to be a way to upgrade the Market Board system to allow us to purchase partial stacks from listings.

World of Warcraft (Retail) made the switch. EVE Online has had it since forever.

BONUS: Let us put in buy orders just like in EVE. 'Wishlist' isn't cutting it.

Alternatively, people could just stop selling in stacks greater than what most people want. If you sell a stack of 99 materia you are just selling to pentamelders.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

Alternatively, people could just stop selling in stacks greater than what most people want. If you sell a stack of 99 materia you are just selling to pentamelders.

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The issue with that is each 'stack' takes up a Retainer "Sell Slot".

And for me, personally, I'm trying to clear out Retainer inventory from 5+ years of playing (read: pack-ratting). So I have many materials with over 300 quantity, but since they're old they don't move. Though, when they do it's for significantly more than the Vendor Sell price.

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Originally Posted by illutian

The issue with that is each 'stack' takes up a Retainer "Sell Slot".

And for me, personally, I'm trying to clear out Retainer inventory from 5+ years of playing (read: pack-ratting). So I have many materials with over 300 quantity, but since they're old they don't move. Though, when they do it's for significantly more than the Vendor Sell price.

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Maybe you should consider the market and vendor a reasonable stack at a time - you don't have to just flat out sell everything in 99 Stacks, you can sell it in various amounts based on customer need. Have you learned nothing from the Crafter Job Quests in Stormblood?

Being able to buy in partial stacks would basically remove the ability for legit players to compete with the bot farmers so...I'm honestly against it.

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Originally Posted by illutian

Seriously. This needs to happen.

Who's going to buy 50 Calamari Ripieni to craft a couple of items.

There has to be a way to upgrade the Market Board system to allow us to purchase partial stacks from listings.

World of Warcraft (Retail) made the switch. EVE Online has had it since forever.

BONUS: Let us put in buy orders just like in EVE. 'Wishlist' isn't cutting it.

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Just buy them and relist all the ones you don't use back on the AH. Sometimes you can even make a profit by splitting the stack yourself and charging more per item than you paid.

If I want things to sell, I sell in reasonable stacks that people can use or turn in:3, 5, 10, 20. This is a part of the economy right now and if you created an order system the bots would run the show wholesale.

Retainer slots have value, understanding manageable parceling has value, knowing markets has value.

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Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima

Maybe you should consider the market and vendor a reasonable stack at a time - you don't have to just flat out sell everything in 99 Stacks, you can sell it in various amounts based on customer need. Have you learned nothing from the Crafter Job Quests in Stormblood?

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A 'reasonable' stack would still leave several Retainers 'preoccupied' with selling items; 'reasonable stacks' tend to be 1 or increments of 5.

And yes, I could put up 5 listings of 1 or 5 at a time. But that's tedious. Games shouldn't be tedious.


Also. I haven't done Job Quests since Heavensward. So, no, I guess I haven't learned anything from the Crafter Job Quests in Stormblood. :P

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

Just buy them and relist all the ones you don't use back on the AH. Sometimes you can even make a profit by splitting the stack yourself and charging more per item than you paid.

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No no. I'm the one with 24 selling in stacks of 3. But there's a competitors that are selling in larger quantities. I just saw that and thought it silly that even though they have it at a cheaper price per unit. They'll likely never sell that many in one go to one person.

Hence the suggestion post.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Being able to buy in partial stacks would basically remove the ability for legit players to compete with the bot farmers so...I'm honestly against it.

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I don't follow. How does being able to buy a partial stack suddenly enable bots to take over?