WAR : How do you want to sell stuff?

[Zeli]

Also, if you choose "other" please post details. Do you want a completely new system, another game's system or a merged system of various games?

[Molley]

I like the auction house, because I am lazy. It would be nice if you could click on the seller to contact and see who won the auction, or bought out your stuff. In DAoC I would give discounts to people who often bought lots of potions from me, and alliance members, so it would be nice to know who you are selling to.

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

I think WOW did a great job, and it made it very quick and easy to raise money for mounts, etc. It was married to the ingame mail though...you'd almost definitely have to have that for it to have worked as well as it did.

DAOC method was the pits. Shitty search engine combined with running around sucked, as far as I am concerned. As a legendary weaponsmith, I made more through /sends from people wanting to commission a product than I did through the CM.

EQ's changed since you left, Zeli. They had a bazaar system, fairly similiar to DAOC, except you didnt have to run around nearly as much. Search engine was more robust as well.
Course that didnt stop people from shouting to everyone in zone....but I guess that happens in most games anyways.

[Aduras]

Agreed with Aruth and Molley.

The Auction House/mail system was the best.

[Zeli]

EQ's changed since you left, Zeli. They had a bazaar system

I knew it changed, but I hadn't experienced it so I didn't know how to describe it.

[Winin]

I liked the SWG system. You put things on vendors and can do auction or buyout, but stuff is localized. So if you sell it on one planet, you can search for it on other planets but you have to go there to get it. That way you can sell healing potions or other consumables for a higher price out near the tough areas and make more profit. Or you can be a trader and buy low sell high.

Also, things stay on the vendor forever I think (but you can only have so many items listed at once)

[Nefertiti]

I like the Auction House but with would like more detail such as the AH that is used in Final Fantasy Online.

[Zeli]

how did FFO do theirs?

I like an AH, but I want some differences. I want to be able to keep stuff on there until it sells, but in order to keep people from using it as storage, they would have to limit the number of items a person could have on the AH at a time.

I really like the idea of group pricing like Mo mentioned!
I could have at-cost prices for guildies
another price for alliancemates
another price for regulars (maybe you can set it so that people who've bought from you 10+ times in the past are regulars and the AH keeps track of that stuff?)
and another price for non-regular buyers

[Morg'th N'Throg]

Other!
I want UOs system. You have a house, you have an NPC vendor, you place items on that vendor for sale, and you collect the cash once a week. The perfect immersive RP system. People created whole Malls with hundreds of vendors and it encouraged you to roam the world looking for great deals while the bigger stores got famous.

Morg'th N'Throg

[Winin]

The SWG system was like that, but they also had public vendors in each city so you could have stuff for sale without having a house.

[Zeli]

I understand it's more immersing and all, and I can see how people would enjoy that, but I don't want my own house. I don't want to have to have a house just to sell stuff. I liked having a guild house in DAoC, but I don't want to maintain my own. I hated the guild vendor system in DAoC. As a casual group, it was a major pain figuring out how much of the money was whose. I just quit selling stuff because it was so annoying. I don't want to maintain a vendor. I just want to sell a hat. I don't want to spend time traveling all over to get the best deal on a pair of boots. I just want a pair of boots and get back to fighting. Maybe the UO system was different from the DAoC one, but I hated wasting an hour of my playtime just traveling around housing to get a cloak because I couldn't afford the 15% mark up (or whatever it’s set at) to have it delivered to me. I’m a strange girl in that I don’t like shopping.

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

Yeah I agree with that. Less shopping, more naked walks from inn to inn.

[Zeli]

Here's an article on the subject from WAR Vault:
*Source Link*

Rally's Ramblings - Going once... Going twice....sold.
By Ralidric

Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 - Warhammer Vault News

Going once, going twice, sold.
Auction House Vs Consignment Merchants
Auction house or consignment merchant? Which one is better? Why?

I believe that the auction house system is far superior to the consignment merchant in many ways. First off with the auction house you have the opportunity to pay a reasonable rate via a bid. Now most players just chose the buyout option from the auction house as they can have it now without waiting or getting outbid. That is not the fault of the design of the system; it is the fault of the impatient player. Consignment merchants don’t offer that. With consignment merchants the price is the price take it or leave it. An auction system also sets the economy, where as the merchant system lets the players set the economy. In the auction house system, the bidding amount and eventual sale amount of the item will determine how good the economy is on a certain server. With the merchant system you don’t get that, you get players setting prices as high as they can and not scaling them. That in turn leads to people eventual paying those high prices. With the merchant system, you have players setting the economy from the start and not willing to slide it on a scale. Auction houses allow the economy to start small and scale upwards, this also allows for a downward scale when times see fit and players won’t pay the high prices anymore. The problem with the auction house system as we know it to exist is that it is not being used as intended. People find the item they want, look at the price, and hit buyout, without ever having a placed a bid on it. That too drives the economy upwards. Had they bid on it, they very well may have gotten it cheaper. The only thing I would like to see other than what we know is being able to set a price instead of just bidding on an item. Let me set what I am willing to pay. If I win good, if I’m out bid oh well, I didn’t pay what I thought was too much. Consignment merchants do not in any way give us that option. With merchants we pay what they ask or we do without. I would not be disappointed in any way if an auction house was in WAR. I would like some tweaks to it though.

These opinions are mine and mine alone

Charles “Ralidric” Todaro