Zeli
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Post by Zeli on Nov 27, 2006 11:06:11 GMT -5
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?
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Molley
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Post by Molley on Nov 27, 2006 11:33:25 GMT -5
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.
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Post by GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth) on Nov 27, 2006 11:33:42 GMT -5
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.
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Aduras
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Post by Aduras on Nov 27, 2006 12:18:20 GMT -5
Agreed with Aruth and Molley.
The Auction House/mail system was the best.
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Zeli
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Post by Zeli on Nov 27, 2006 12:26:30 GMT -5
I knew it changed, but I hadn't experienced it so I didn't know how to describe it.
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Winin
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Post by Winin on Nov 27, 2006 12:37:10 GMT -5
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)
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Post by Nefertiti on Nov 27, 2006 14:45:24 GMT -5
I like the Auction House but with would like more detail such as the AH that is used in Final Fantasy Online.
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Zeli
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Post by Zeli on Nov 27, 2006 15:10:18 GMT -5
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
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Post by Morg'th N'Throg on Nov 28, 2006 6:38:52 GMT -5
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
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Winin
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Post by Winin on Nov 28, 2006 8:44:42 GMT -5
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.
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Zeli
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Post by Zeli on Nov 28, 2006 9:29:09 GMT -5
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.
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Post by GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth) on Nov 28, 2006 9:45:51 GMT -5
Yeah I agree with that. Less shopping, more naked walks from inn to inn.
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Zeli
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Post by Zeli on Nov 28, 2006 21:10:18 GMT -5
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