My impression of the general mood on the forums is that a lot of people are not happy with the guild trader system and while a global AH is not viewed as the best solution by many players, something has to change.
I have decided to include all the trade systems I can think of in this poll to see where the majority lands.
A few clarifications beforehand:
- Global AH also means cross faction AH
- Regional Markets refers to the system described in
this post
TL;DR:
- No more bidding. All guilds can offer their wares in a regional market of their choice. For a fee, of course.
- All guild traders within a region are linked and show the same items for sale.
- Some markets will be more popular than others, this will influence the fee.
The general idea of Regional Markets
For full details refer to the linked post
Instead of bidding on an individual guild trader, any guild can pay a weekly fee to participate in a regional market. This means buyers will have access to a lot more guild stores at once and reduce the need to visit trader after trader, searching for a specific item, or the best deal.
Obviously some markets will be more popular than others, so while the listing fee will be the same for all guilds within a region, it will differ from region to region. I believe the relative sales volume within a market should determine the fee within a set range e.g. 10'000-250'000 from least to most popular. This will be recalculated on a weekly basis.
I suggest all regional markets' fees start at 50'000 when the system goes live. After the first week and recalculation, fees will start to differ greatly.
After a while the most popular markets will have crystallized and the most successful trading guilds will offer their wares there, while aspiring new guilds and non-trading guilds will participate in the less popular zones. Some of them will work their way up, as more funds become available (More active sellers/saving up).
I don't expect the outcome of this poll to affect anything, but I'm interested to see the results.
Edited by Rodario on October 19, 2014 3:59PM
Victoria Lux - Templar Tank
{EU/DC}
Are you happy with ESO's trade system? 265 votes
Yes, I'm happy with the system as it is
No, I'd prefer a global AH
No, I'd prefer factionwide AHs
No, I'd prefer a global AH, but leave the guild trader system intact and make their fee lower than the AH's
No, I'd prefer factionwide AHs, but leave the guild trader system intact and make their fee lower than the AHs'
No, I'd prefer Regional Markets
No, I'd prefer to do away with all trade systems and have a /trade chat instead
No, I'd prefer to leave the guild traders but make the auction a public/standard bidding war
2 votes
Other (please only completely different suggestions)