What I think will be best is to have the GE layout, where you can either buy or sell 6 items, and you need to offer up the item or the gold to purchase it, like on the GE on RS3. When someone sees a price they want to buy an item for, or sell an item for, there is an option to send a trade request, this trade request will be in red if it is a sell offer and green if it is a buy offer, saying the trade that is being requested. Then a trade screen pops up with just the item and the gold being offered. Nothing will be able to be taken out or added to these trade screens to ensure security, and if someone wants to negotiate, they can still PM the seller/buyer. For a seller, they can post a sell offer, and still be able to sell to someone with a buy offer up, but for a different amount if they choose to do so. This same concept can be used for someone with a buy offer up, who sees a sell offer that they wish to purchase. There are no restrictions to the amount of items that can be bought/sold.
The player must be logged in to purchase or sell an item, and the offers will become void after being logged out for 5 minutes or more.
Examples of someone buying an item: "instantly": If King1294 is selling an abyssal whip for 1650k, there will be an option to send a trade request to buy for 1650k and only 1650k.
"Non-Instant": The buyer can create your own buy offer and purchase it for this same price as listed above (1650k), but from a different person or make a seperate buy offer for less or more.
Example for someone selling an item: "instantly": If King1294 is buying a whip for 1600k, there will be an option to send a trade request to him, selling your whip for 1600k.
"Non-Instant": The seller can create their own sell offer, selling the (in this case abyssal whip) for whatever amount they choose.
Let me know what you all think! I'm sure this isnt perfect, but I feel it is the closest thing to having a GE, but without actually having one
12-Dec-2014 19:25:21