"QuarterMaster" Skill Line? To Streamline Guild Traders Searches

Ace_of_Destiny

Okay imagine this...

You wish to buy 200 Iron Ingots.
You go to your Quartermaster NPC, and click him/her.
You are met with a screen much like the Guild Trader Screen.
However, once you input what you are looking for the Quartermaster runs off.
A little while later you get a Mail in your box from your Quartermaster saying something like; "I have returned.".
You go to Him/Her, and open his screen, and are met with ALL the items from All the Guild Traders that match your search.
Then, you can buy which ever one you would like.

Now, here is the kicker...
It is a SKILL LINE.
So, it would be just like, say, Enchanting.
A list of passive that affect what type of items you can search for, how often you can search, how many concurrent searches you may do, etc.
The skill line could be leveled up just by using your Quartermaster...so, the better of a consumer you are the more flexibility the system gives you.

Anybody think something like this might work?


EDIT:

One more thing...so that this wouldn't be a "gamewide auctionhouse", how about you have to personally go to each "zone/country" to check each one's quartermaster?
That way we STILL have to "put in some work".
But, instead of talking to 10 traders, and doing ten searches, we just have to do it once per nation?
Because finding some of them is a real P.I.T.A..


Something like this would make it easier for the consumer to find things.
And, since guild-members can sell things from any bank, they are taken care of.
And, the person from the guild would STILL have to go to a guild trader to bid on them.
It just seems like a good "middleground".
And, I think, it would really boost the ingame economy....how many people actually make it a point to travel to that "one lonely trader" that is a ten-minute walk from the closest wayshrine?
In fact...I don't even bother checking the traders where there is only one there anymore...just not worth it to me.

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Picknflick

its a good thought but what happens if your quartermaster finds your 200 iron ingots and they've been sold since you logged on? You'd have to do another search. On the flip side, if another players quartermaster tags some goods you are selling and places a "hold" on your sell for a 'potential buyer', what happens if the 'potential buyer' doesn't log on for a month?

Ace_of_Destiny

Picknflick wrote: »

its a good thought but what happens if your quartermaster finds your 200 iron ingots and they've been sold since you logged on? You'd have to do another search. On the flip side, if another players quartermaster tags some goods you are selling and places a "hold" on your sell for a 'potential buyer', what happens if the 'potential buyer' doesn't log on for a month?

What happens when two people use the same guild trader at the same time?
It's not like the "quartermaster" is going to actually physically walk to each trader...it's still all just a computer game. (lol)

Ace_of_Destiny

With so many players complaining about guild traders, and asking for an auctionhouse, I thought this would get more opinions posted.

Then again...maybe I should post things during daylight hours, and not in the middle of the night. (lol)

FancyTuna8

I tried using the guild traders once, it is too much of a headache on console. I like your idea; almost anything would be better than what they have now.

Alphakar

I like this idea. I think there is no problem that multiple people using the same guild trader.
Because it is already possible.

I would chance the mechanic al little bit.

I tell the Quartermaster I am looking for 200 ingots.

Now the Quartermaster knows the average price of 200 ingots.

And I can give him the money I think 200 ingots are worth. He starts then searching for an offer that fits to my request.

Ace_of_Destiny

Alphakar wrote: »

I like this idea. I think there is no problem that multiple people using the same guild trader.
Because it is already possible.

I would chance the mechanic al little bit.

I tell the Quartermaster I am looking for 200 ingots.

Now the Quartermaster knows the average price of 200 ingots.

And I can give him the money I think 200 ingots are worth. He starts then searching for an offer that fits to my request.

Sounds good to me!

Azurephoenix999

I wouldn't have it as a skill line, but it's a great idea in principle.

Though, as Akivir Sentinel said on a similar thread I made, it's probably never going to happen.