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Mod Mat K

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@ModMatK As long as buyers and sellers can both check an option to buy/sell piecemeal.

If the seller allows the items to be bought piecemeal the buyer can decide how many he wants to buy.

23-May-2014 14:56:57

Otter
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The problem with allowing players to only buy part of an offer is that it might impact on the price you can sell the stack of items for.

If there is a demand for large amounts of an item then you might be able to sell a stack of 1,000 for more each than a stack of 100. That might mean if someone buys 500 at the asking price then it will be more difficult to sell the remaining 500 at that price.

However, would giving each seller the option to decide whether they can sell their stack of items in just one sale or piecemeal solve the problem? How it fixes the problem that you have stated? I mean you still can buy half of it and the problem will still remain the same, won't it?

If a seller believes he will make more money by selling the item as bulk he can stop players buying it piecemeal.

How could someone possibly make more money selling in bulk? With automated trading the idea of bulk purchases goes out the window. If I can buy something for 1k gp each in small quantities really quickly rather than buying that one person huge stack for 1.2k each Im going to take the small quantities everytime because they'll add up to that large stack anyway.

So that person would just allow his items to be sold one by one from his giant stack anyway. He has absolutely nothing to lose by doing this lol.

23-May-2014 14:57:06

Tree Village

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Great update i waited for it for a long time
I cant stand world 1
full of bots and scammers who wont stop offering you wrong prices of iteams.
***3* Was Usfull if other sellers whould go and check the real price of an iteam and that they wont say what an price of iteam is!
Thank you Mod Mat K! This is going to make the game realy better and fun! GE IS LOVE GE IS LIFE GE LOOKS VERY NICE

23-May-2014 14:57:21

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Ok, then this solution is perfectly fine for me. Looking forward for the update as now I've got no complaints about it.

If both buyers and sellers can choose Piecemeal option. I also have no problems with update now.

23-May-2014 14:58:17

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So far it seems people are mostly opposed to offline trading.
Remove the feature to trade offline and I could see this project being a success.

The survey we held shows the opposite, in that 68% of votes wanted some sort of functionality to trade when offline. Perhaps we could limit offers to staying in the auction house for no longer than a week or something?

The survey you held shows that 57% of players wanted fully offline trading, 11% of us felt that changing worlds or going to the bathroom shouldn't cancel an offer so a short grace period would be appropriate.

I was one of those 11%, my vote would be changed to a no should you offer fully automated trading whilst your in bed getting your 8 hours of beauty sleep.

There are enough no votes on both sides of the issue to kill off your auction house, the way forward lies in the 11%, both sides might vote yes for a compromise that allows limited offline trading rather than unlimited.

Yup, I mentioned that we can limit it a little while ago, how long do you think would be suitable?

23-May-2014 14:58:20

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i dont understand, you said in the bullet points that people do want offline trading; but maybe i missed the part where you talk about how offline will be offered in this auction house? Atm i dont see the difference between this auction house and *****, other than it being in game and you cant manip easily since you actually need the item to sell it--which isnt a problem but im confused where the offline part comes in petscape is bestscape
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23-May-2014 15:00:05

SimplySick

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@ModMatK As long as buyers and sellers can both check an option to buy/sell piecemeal.

If the seller allows the items to be bought piecemeal the buyer can decide how many he wants to buy.

What I mean though is that say I put a buy offer for 500whips and check this "Piecemeal" option. Then I can go to bed and wake up to 3 whips sold to me buy 3 different people. You know what I mean?

23-May-2014 15:00:33

Otter
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i dont understand, you said in the bullet points that people do want offline trading; but maybe i missed the part where you talk about how offline will be offered in this auction house? Atm i dont see the difference between this auction house and *****, other than it being in game and you cant manip easily since you actually need the item to sell it--which isnt a problem but im confused where the offline part comes in

Selling will be allowed to be done offline. However you won't be able to put in buy offers to buy things while offline.

23-May-2014 15:00:56

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So far it seems people are mostly opposed to offline trading.
Remove the feature to trade offline and I could see this project being a success.

The survey we held shows the opposite, in that 68% of votes wanted some sort of functionality to trade when offline. Perhaps we could limit offers to staying in the auction house for no longer than a week or something?

The survey you held shows that 57% of players wanted fully offline trading, 11% of us felt that changing worlds or going to the bathroom shouldn't cancel an offer so a short grace period would be appropriate.

I was one of those 11%, my vote would be changed to a no should you offer fully automated trading whilst your in bed getting your 8 hours of beauty sleep.

There are enough no votes on both sides of the issue to kill off your auction house, the way forward lies in the 11%, both sides might vote yes for a compromise that allows limited offline trading rather than unlimited.

Yup, I mentioned that we can limit it a little while ago, how long do you think would be suitable? An hour or two will do just fine, imo.

23-May-2014 15:01:07

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