Global Auction House [Data Center]

[Gugnir]

So, besides having a local market board would it even be possible to have an auction house linked to a data center to help crafting stuff sell faster?

edit: To clarify, having a separate auction system where you could list items to buy and sell to every server in the data center. I can see this being useful on smaller servers that would give players access to a larger market. Granted it probably would mess up local economies where a few omni-crafters have a monopoly.

[Arutan]

I don't get your idea, more precision would be appreciated

[Edewen]

Essentially he wants 2 market boards. one for data center and one for server. This is nonsensical because people would always use whatever is cheaper. wh the hell wants to shop both and price compare?

The thing is, making the marketboard datacenter wide would be beneficial in some ways. Preventing monopolizing through sheer numbers, encouraging the population to spread to less populated servers *they seem to want this, and overall economy health on those smaller servers. All reasons to do this, however, i don't see this happening without some form of mega server implementation. Basically gw2 implementation.

[Arutan]

Oh, that would be interesting but doing so would result in all the prices getting real low with 5-6 servers sharing the same MB. I don't know, in the same time that would be cool because everything is way to expensive on Ragnarok, but you wouldn't be able to make as much gil as before by crafting

[Lan_Mantear]

This is a horrible idea. The ones to benefit most would be gil farmers/sellers who would then use this as a way to launder huge amounts of gil from one server to another.

[Lexia]

This is a horrible idea. The ones to benefit most would be gil farmers/sellers who would then use this as a way to launder huge amounts of gil from one server to another.

That would really only work for smaller/worthless items sold in bulk as most those are run by bots so don't think they be dealing in big items like HQ level 60 crafts and what not.

[Lan_Mantear]

That would really only work for smaller/worthless items sold in bulk as most those are run by bots so don't think they be dealing in big items like HQ level 60 crafts and what not.

Buying HQ items is not the point.

Gil Sellers would no longer be limited to selling their stock on just one server. Here's a quick example:

Buyer (Server A): I need 100 mil Gil
Seller (Server B): Put up bone chips for 100 mil and I'll buy it.

[Shougun]

If they have no intention of combining servers into a mega server I dont think we should do this, but I thought Yoshida was talking about it way down the line as a possible thing.. so maybe a little bit before they actually combine them they start to merge the markets? Then after a while they move all of the local products to the global AH..?

It might make it smoother transition, maybe. lol.

Buyer (Server A): I need 100 mil Gil
Seller (Server B): Put up bone chips for 100 mil and I'll buy it.

Wubrant (Server C): Puts up bone chips for 100 mil. *prays*

[Lexia]

Buying HQ items is not the point.

Gil Sellers would no longer be limited to selling their stock on just one server. Here's a quick example:

Buyer (Server A): I need 100 mil Gil
Seller (Server B): Put up bone chips for 100 mil and I'll buy it.

Good job just rewording what I said in the first half of my post.

[Arutan]

Buying HQ items is not the point.

Gil Sellers would no longer be limited to selling their stock on just one server. Here's a quick example:

Buyer (Server A): I need 100 mil Gil
Seller (Server B): Put up bone chips for 100 mil and I'll buy it.

I'm not sure they're doing this. 100M through MB would end in a tax of 5M gils.
So either the customer would be screwed and less people would buy, which is a good point
Or the RMT buy at a higher price so that with the tax the customer still get the right amount which means lots of lost money.

I think either case want to be avoided so RMT shouldn't be a problem on that point