My Dream of an Improved Market Ward System (No AH necessary)

[Secret_Reeve]

if SE puts player housing down that god forbidden alley i think i will rage quit.

that alley to the wards and companies has turned into nothing more than a shortcut for thier developement team.

instead of the "oh, lets add a new floor to uldah where players warp to thier home from the top of the stairs"

it till be

"lets let them warp from that alleyway"

just like the companies, hall of sands or w/e the main storyline quest bit down there is called, the wards and the other thing down there.

its LAZY GOD DAMNIT.

stop making everything accessible from one single point, ITS BORING

and another thing, would it have been hard to take that dumb monastry thing and put the company in there instead? that monastry is a WASTE OF SPACE!

i mean way to utilise an entire city.....

[AmyRae]

I did, and you should to. We want the same thing - Easy access to buying/selling items from a centralized location. You just want the label of Auction House, and to remove all ties from the current Market Wards system.

That's not it at all.

It's the nature of the NPC vendors that the Market Wards use that irreparably prevents it from being anything like an Auction House. You could add all the conveniences you wanted, but if I have to shuffle around NPC to NPC to do any buying or selling, it's a step back from the straightforward medium that an Auction House provides.

It's the fundamental flaw you can't work around, no matter how much sunshine and flowers you add to it.

If you did make the Market Wards like an Auction House, it's because you've changed it exactly into an Auction House. And if this is the functionality you're striving for, then why not build a new Auction House with a fresh, rock solid foundation, not build it out of something that can't function as an Auction House at all?

[Denmo]

if SE puts player housing down that god forbidden alley i think i will rage quit.

that alley to the wards and companies has turned into nothing more than a shortcut for thier developement team.

instead of the "oh, lets add a new floor to uldah where players warp to thier home from the top of the stairs"

it till be

"lets let them warp from that alleyway"

just like the companies, hall of sands or w/e the main storyline quest bit down there is called, the wards and the other thing down there.

its LAZY GOD DAMNIT.

stop making everything accessible from one single point, ITS BORING

and another thing, would it have been hard to take that dumb monastry thing and put the company in there instead? that monastry is a WASTE OF SPACE!

That too, is a good point. My concern was making housing accessible. But it doesn't necessarily have to stem from the same warp point as the wards.

That's not it at all.

It's the nature of the NPC vendors that the Market Wards use that irreparably prevents it from being anything like an Auction House. You could add all the conveniences you wanted, but if I have to shuffle around NPC to NPC to do any buying or selling, it's a step back from the straightforward medium that an Auction House provides.

It's the fundamental flaw you can't work around, no matter how much sunshine and flowers you add to it.

If you did make the Market Wards like an Auction House, it's because you've changed it exactly into an Auction House. And if this is the functionality you're striving for, then why not build a new Auction House with a fresh, rock solid foundation, not build it out of something that can't function as an Auction House at all?

You seem to have missed my original post. Context is a bitch, remember?

My proposal would make the wards into auction house-like halls. You stand at an empty counter where you begin searching for items you want to buy. When you find the item, the retainer selling the item appears before you, and you access its bazaar immediately. You can see whatever else the player has to sell, so it's still like a bazaar. And you can see the player's customized retainer, so there's a face to the person you're buying from. Which is (in my opinion) the original reason for having retainers.

The only reason the current market wards can't function like an AH "at all" right now is because you have to walk to the ward, then walk to the NPC, then buy. In my idea, you let the NPC do the walking.

[neizero]

or they could just add the AH.

[Denmo]

or they could just add the AH.

*clap clap clap*

[Tsuga]

or they could just add the AH.

That makes entirely too much sense.