Concept and mechanics of a "Buy-Order" side of an AH

[Wulfies]

Not sure what you're trying to do. The system being discussed in this thread is exactly like how a stock exchange works, no need to look to EVE or GW2 as their systems are designed after those. Here's the basic way it operates:

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You are right, my second suggestion was to setup like a stock exchange, but all i wanted to do was to try to cut out stupidity. ie someone trying to buy gold ore for 300 each when people are selling for 200 each. Now, personally, I would let them do this, but people want this game to be fair to the buyer and seller so I added that cavet.

I would love to see a commodities exchange implementeted but I have very little hopes of that EVER being done here.

[Sinbios]

You are right, my second suggestion was to setup like a stock exchange, but all i wanted to do was to try to cut out stupidity. ie someone trying to buy gold ore for 300 each when people are selling for 200 each. Now, personally, I would let them do this, but people want this game to be fair to the buyer and seller so I added that cavet.

That would be an order that crosses the spread so under the system described above it would simply immediately fill any open sell orders up to and including 300, and if there is not sufficient volume to fill the entire order then the remainder would be put on the buy orders list at 300. I think you're envisioning buy/sell markets that are isolated from each other which isn't the way it should work, they should be in the same environment and the buy side and sell side should be able to interact with each other.