Player Poll: What Specifically is it you want from an "Auction House"

[Wolfie]

Option 1. FFXIV's economy set up (player-run shops) is good and workable, but because of having to graphically render every shop, it's inconvenient and limited. When/if SE decides to switch to a menu/window interface only, with no retainers and zones and whatever, then it'll be a great system.

[Anty]

Option 1. FFXIV's economy set up (player-run shops) is good and workable, but because of having to graphically render every shop, it's inconvenient and limited. When/if SE decides to switch to a menu/window interface only, with no retainers and zones and whatever, then it'll be a great system.

true. they might have to do that when we get an increased number of players, since i doubt well have like 120 wards/each city in the future. Would be stupid if anyways.

[Cairdeas]

Option 1. FFXIV's economy set up (player-run shops) is good and workable, but because of having to graphically render every shop, it's inconvenient and limited. When/if SE decides to switch to a menu/window interface only, with no retainers and zones and whatever, then it'll be a great system.

I like the idea of mixing the Retainers and Menus together.


Player has a Retainer. They give their items to the retainer to sell.

Player goes to Market Window. Searches for item.
Finds item in item list, shows retainers selling the item and for what price.
Open the retainer, the item is marked, buy the item, window shop the rest of the retainers good.
Log out of the window.

[Wolfie]

I like the idea of mixing the Retainers and Menus together.


Player has a Retainer. They give their items to the retainer to sell.

Player goes to Market Window. Searches for item.
Finds item in item list, shows retainers selling the item and for what price.
Open the retainer, the item is marked, buy the item, window shop the rest of the retainers good.
Log out of the window.

They can even make your retainer "go away" and become unusable after you tell it go set up shop.

But practically every issue with MW right now stems from having a bunch of retainer zombies in a ward dungeon. Hardware is extremely limited in the amount of NPCs and PCs that can be in a zone and/or in such a small area. If the servers don't have to store and process the graphics info associated with retainers, it would be awesome.

[Cairdeas]

They can even make your retainer "go away" and become unusable after you tell it go set up shop.

But practically every issue with MW right now stems from having a bunch of retainer zombies in a ward dungeon. Hardware is extremely limited in the amount of NPCs and PCs that can be in a zone and/or in such a small area. If the servers don't have to store and process the graphics info associated with retainers, it would be awesome.

Basically turn the marketwards into something thats not rendered and we just visit a window

But every purchase still makes you visit that retainers entire inventory before you can purchase the individual item. So the window shopping from the physical wards is still present.

[Corrderio]

Option 1. FFXIV's economy set up (player-run shops) is good and workable, but because of having to graphically render every shop, it's inconvenient and limited. When/if SE decides to switch to a menu/window interface only, with no retainers and zones and whatever, then it'll be a great system.

This, 1000 times this. Keep the menu/price listings from the wards. Get rid of zones/retainers and have it menu based like the AH, then it'd be perfect.