[dev1019] Examination of an auction house system

[AngryNixon]

We need a house for a Delivery box though. Which we totally need already.

In short and not to be rude or intentionally terse: No you do not.

See: Aion for one because this early in the morning it's the one that's coming to mind.

You send/receive from a free standing mailbox in town. It's perfectly plausible to do it that way without having to go to the extent of tying in a much larger issue like personal housing.

That said, and on a broader note, I think that same solution is plausible for an AH system where you post your items and receive items that did not sell or your profits from the same kiosk.

The possibility of creating systems that are independent of a mail system, however, does not excuse the absence of a mail system in this game.

problem #1 with the wards is that they aren't global

I'm always in favour of any in game market system that ends up with a global market solution accessible from each of the major cities.

[Yuuichi]

Hmm no AH is what some people are saying all I have to say is why do you even like the current system.

Number 1: Wards crash, then there's NOTHING there granted it gives people the chance to try to over price stuff and sell it.

Number 2: I honestly would love to have a global market instead of having to tele/run from town to town to look for something.

Number 3: Yes there's a Limit to how many retainers can be in each ward, 1) I can understand why there's a limit too many would bog down server and make it release speed to load the retainers lol. 2) As someone else stated and am merely saying it again, the player base is small, IF the player base does not grow then I guess it works, but with how many players we have now, certain wards get full... and that's with a LOT less players then we hope to have.

On a side note, honestly RMT's if they wanna spam you tells, they'll find a way, AH makes things easier they can use the extra data saved from the wards and put it towards a Mog House which would be nice, and finally I agree with the old auction house system being a bust, it had it's "uses" for those who were too lazy to put a price and getting a emp pin for 1 gil, but on a side note, I can't believe I'm saying this but WoW's AH isn't have bad, there's a buy out option and a bid option, kinda like ebay, not a bad thought in taking what's good and making it better for basic stuff like that.