AH info lost in the sauce?

[GhostInfinity]

This has been in the game from day zero

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...2-39-09-58.jpg

clearly their intention is to add AH at some point.

That reminds me of pre release/ beta when 9 out 10 people were asking where they could find the AH. We were all like "Don't be so stupid, how can an MMO not have an AH, this is just beta, they'll have one at release" etc

(on a side note it was kinda like seeing an airship fly over outside Ul'Dah, running into the city and searching high and low for the port!)

[Zoltan]

Cairdeas: All the RMTs would have to do is complete 20 transactions to invalidate your method.

Certainly you're not arguing that having no history is better than having history of transactions?

One of the worst things in FFXI was seeing the same bot craft holy water, sole sushi or marron glace day after day and never leave town. The GMs had no power to ban those obvious RMTs. I'd like to see GM's have the authority to instantly suspend RMTs.

Honestly, I'd like to restrict who could place items for sale to people who actually play the game and not bots or mules who only craft and sell stuff. I would recommend restricting sellers to having a level 30+ job and having field experience every 7 days to include combat earned XP, DoH / DoL earned XP and have completed 1 quest and 5 leves since last placing an item for sale.

The DEVs could program the market so that the sale of any item lower than the actual cost of production would be prevented. They could easily take a base calculation off of the median npc items or true median price of items sold and add a 25% minimum margin cost over actual production costs for the price floor. People always seem to want to buy items for the cost of materials and fail to recognize the costs crafters incur just levelling their DoH skill high enough to create the item.

The market must indicate whether the item is HQ+ and also not have a delay in displaying the actual items available for sale.

There must be some form of price tracking, even for items that are unavailable, or the market can be unfairly manipulated.

Finally, I would also like to see the end of people using their bazaars for storage by pricing items at extreme prices, but that will never happen.

[Shyd]

Thread title reminds me of a Ween song.

[Zoltan]

Thread title reminds me of a Ween song.

Must be: "Help me scrape the mucus off my brain" or "Pork roll and egg cheese" ??

[Chain]

Spare me the RMT crap, making the community suffer through a screwed up and clunky mess of a system because they can't get their act together to control RMT is not the answer to any of this.

[Concept]

couldn't they just put a retainer summoning bell in front of wards? for lazy ppl like me? Would be quick and helpful I'd think

Edit: I really just want to see a mail box system put in! please and thank you!

[TheVedis]

is it just me or are 90% of the arguements against the wards cuz you dont wanna spend 30 seconds running in to the retainer you chose to get something from?

also clunky? really chain? an AH or any other way of buying stuff would have same ui, you still gotta find the item to buy it and do you really think they are gonna change how the menus are to find the item now is?
you are arguing that you dont like the system in general, not that you dont like the wards if thats the case

[polyhedral]

It takes longer than 30 seconds to find an item, run in the correct ward, wait for the retainers to load, buy the item, then return back to the item search menu to find something else you need.

It's absolutely ridiculous, and I doubt I ever fall in love with the MW compared to what I've had in many other games, ffxi included.

Don't rationalize a bad system. Just stop it. You are not helping US.

[TheVedis]

It takes longer than 30 seconds to find an item, run in the correct ward, wait for the retainers to load, buy the item, then return back to the item search menu to find something else you need.

It's absolutely ridiculous, and I doubt I ever fall in love with the MW compared to what I've had in many other games, ffxi included.

Don't rationalize a bad system. Just stop it. You are not helping US.

the time spent finding the item is irrelevant
in an AH system if it were added you would STILL have to find the item

[polyhedral]

You are the one who stated 30 seconds, when you know damn well it takes far longer than that.

No AH I ever used required me to walk somewhere to find the item or buy it.