Buy Orders

[EveK]

I surprisingly did not find a pre-existing thread suggesting this, so I'm making one myself.

It would help both the players and the game's economy in general if we could post buy orders on the market.

As an example, if we wanted to sell some darksteel ore in such a system, we could see listings not just of all the people trying to sell the ore (most importantly, the lowest prices at which it is offered and the associated quantities and qualities) but also listings of the people trying to BUY the ore and choose whether we wanted to instantly sell it to the highest buy order(s) or instead list it at a higher price and hope someone buys it later. Likewise, if we're trying to buy the ore, we could see listings for people offering to sell it at various prices and buy some instantly or instead post an offer to buy it at a lower price in hopes that the next person looking to sell some will choose our instant gil rather than asking a higher price.

Beyond simple convenience, this will also work to prevent easy manipulation of the market by people that buy sufficient quantity of an item to effectively hide the history of it selling at a low price to then turn around and monopolize its sale at a significantly higher price. The vast majority of these lower-priced items would not be sitting around waiting to be bought by the guy trying to inflate the price and get people to buy RMT gil but instead have already went directly to various buyers via buy orders.