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Thordur
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Thordur

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I think the Trading Post (calling it an Auction House makes it sound like the idea was ripped immediately from the heart of World of Warcraft) should be located in Port Sarim. Port Sarim is a sad excuse for an interesting area of RuneScape at the current. It's also the perfect location; it's a major port. Perhaps one at each port! :) So, equally important to the players (me in particular) is where the Trading Post should be located.

27-May-2014 13:48:55

Firstborn10

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I would just like to add my 2 cents and say this is an excellent idea! I just came back to OSRS and absolutely LOVE it, however I really liked the Grand Exchange when it was first implemented. This is a great alternative to bring a better training alternative to OSRS!

27-May-2014 23:03:04

Sk8r Dan Man
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Sounds good to me, except that the buy interface shouldn't show the total price, but rather the price per unit, and sort by that.

Also, there should be a feature to show the recent trades for each item, so that buyers and sellers can get a good idea of how much items are actually going for, rather than just looking at what people are trying to sell them for. This could be accessible from both the buying and selling interfaces, and would show when the trades were completed, who bought, who sold, and for how much per unit.

I also think there should be a way to put up buy offers as well as sale offers, and looking up an item would list both, or filter out one as requested. This way we can see who we're selling to, as well as who we're buying from. Also, we'll be able to place offers for items currently not for sale.

As for an amount of time before a sale offer expires, the main issue here is that we don't want incomplete sale offers from inactive or unsubscribed accounts to crowd up the list of sale offers, especially when those offers are so ridiculous that nobody would ever accept them.
I'd suggest somewhere around 3 days to a week after being offline seems reasonable. This could be changed as needed after we see how well it works live.

I also might suggest a more readily available means to view the stats of those offering trades. We'd like to be able to make sure that the players we're trading with aren't bots, and stats can be a good representation of that most of the time. Perhaps we could click their name to "stat spy" them, or open a separate window to their high scores page. The ability to message them is great, but not when they're offline.
Or there should be a mechanic to restrict bots trying to mass sell goods. Perhaps a quest point requirement to unlock additional offer slots, similar to how slayer task cancellations work. Or maybe the total value of items you can offer at once is related to your total level.

28-May-2014 01:11:46

Crest71

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wtf...

An other fail from JAGEX yay!

You want to buy lobsters? Go to the action house! You want ores? Go to the action house!

What does it mean? Ardougne will be (once again) a ghost town, same with Fally, Al Kharid, Camelot...and many more.

28-May-2014 04:16:02

Raizen

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I don't know man.... first people are crying that GE is bad and they want old trading system back etc... now they have it back and see that it actually sucks so you come up with an idea that is similar to GE and everybode sits on their butts. Seems like hypocracy to me.

It will be either the same thing as GE all over again (manipulating of prices) or to secure this will not happen it will be so complicated nobody will understand it. Or it will not work the way intended and we go back to GE option.

In order to prevent the manipulation of price you need to see history of all trades of that item, levels of the selling players, all offers... what if a merc* clan decides to put up 30-40 offers for increased price? other will then follow their lead and they will be manipulating the prices again.

also when I want to buy 10 guam seeds for 20 gp and place an order and someone will be selling them will it automatically pair up? Or will he/me have to go look for pending offers beforehand?

28-May-2014 21:21:17 - Last edited on 28-May-2014 21:22:17 by Raizen

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