Would you want a placeable trader for your house?

rauyran

This would be a trader that would let you list items for sale so that visitors to your house could buy things from you when you are not there.

Guilds could also use it to set up a guild trader in their guild house linked to their existing guild store.

redspecter23

Yes

Sounds like a great idea.

Sylvermynx

No

Not my idea of fun. I don't like the trader system in this game, and I have no interest in being involved with it.

Charmlotte

Yes

This would be awesome!

VaranisArano

Yes...but I'd also like a Banker that has access to my guild stores and a Merchant who can repair my gear so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get lucky anytime soon.

whitecrow

No

I can't see how it would get any use. You would have to invite people to your home, or count on them choosing to visit if they know you.

spartaxoxo

Yes

I can see this working well for furniture stores that people make. You place a copy or the furnishings you can make in an attractive way and people can go buy them or browse what else you have to sell.

It would also be a good way for guild leaders to list items that have been donated to the guild.

El_Borracho

No

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I can see this working well for furniture stores that people make. You place a copy or the furnishings you can make in an attractive way and people can go buy them or browse what else you have to sell.

It would also be a good way for guild leaders to list items that have been donated to the guild.

I think I'd rather have a furniture thrift store or something instead. But for straight up trading, I think I like the guild system better, even with all its flaws

Tandor

No

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Not my idea of fun. I don't like the trader system in this game, and I have no interest in being involved with it.

This.

While I always have traded in other MMOs, that's because they have had a proper trading system that wasn't tied to guild membership, third party trading apps, and weekly lotteries to secure a trading outlet (and weekly raffles, donations etc for the lucky winners). Moreover, I bought as well as sold in those games because they had a central place where you could view everything that was available. I won't touch selling in this game because it's a rubbish system, and I have probably bought less than half a dozen items in over seven years, generally a few bits of fishing bait and nothing of any real value or cost.

EQ2 did have, and presumably still has, the option to set up a trading cabinet in your house where buyers could save commission by visiting the seller's house rather than buying through the central broker, and whilst I did sometimes set up a house trader I was never keen on having random strangers coming into my home to save themselves a bit of commission. Nothing would induce me to participate in ESO's trading system, but if for some reason I can't currently conceive I did so then I wouldn't have a trader in my houses precisely to maintain my privacy.

spartaxoxo

Yes

El_Borracho wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I can see this working well for furniture stores that people make. You place a copy or the furnishings you can make in an attractive way and people can go buy them or browse what else you have to sell.

It would also be a good way for guild leaders to list items that have been donated to the guild.

I think I'd rather have a furniture thrift store or something instead. But for straight up trading, I think I like the guild system better, even with all its flaws

A furniture thrift store is far too niche and I don't even know how they would implement such a thing.

A trader in only your house would just make it easier to do trade people are already doing by scheduling times. There's a lot of within guild and friends trading that exists outside of the guild trade system. This would simplify those transactions rather than being something that competed with a guild trader system as there's only a limited number of people that can visit your home.

Like I know many people/guilds will sell luxury furniture by telling people they can visit their house between 7 and 8pm on Thursday or whatever, or they will link stuff in guild chat and then say WTS and sell it only to their guildmates for reduced prices.

That's the kind of trade a house furnishing would facilitate as entire zones cannot browse your house.

Hapexamendios

No

I wouldn't want one. Not enough people would visit to make it worthwhile.

Kiralyn2000

No

I don't have house visitors.

edit: I also don't have much to sell. I'd never make it in a trade guild, even if I wanted to join one.

BulletMagnetX

I'm not sure what you would use it for exactly.

I'd be more inclined to spend time in my houses if they got invaded by bandits and monsters from time to time.

Charlotte_Loreley

Guild trader? Sure, except we don't really have actual dedicated guild halls. So, it will basically be a guild trader in everyone's home and apartment, which doesn't make sense.

Personal trader? Seems pretty pointless. I can only assume you want more stuff/people in your house to interact with and feel more immersed? Might as well add other miscellaneous NPCs in your house: enchanters, blacksmiths, some thieves, drunkards, beggars, etc..
I can imagine you meet an enchanter or some other merchant that you liked and pay them a fee to come set up shop in your residence (sounds dumb, but let's go with it). You're questing in some town and suddenly a random thief NPC starts sneaking behind you. Next thing you know, he followed you to your home and is now sneaking around your merchants and "pretend stealing" from them. You find a quest-starting items from a random drop in the world, and after opening it, you see that it's an invitation to a party for NPC named "Fonzie". You deliver it to them and end the quest. Turns out it's a magical item that binds to whoever opens it first, thus you are now the host and invited some drunkard named "Fonzie". He's now terrorizing your merchants and animals and is in the process of sexually assaulting your atronach training dummy.

Jeremy

Yes

rauyran wrote: »

This would be a trader that would let you list items for sale so that visitors to your house could buy things from you when you are not there.

Guilds could also use it to set up a guild trader in their guild house linked to their existing guild store.

Yeah, me and some others have been asking for this for years on here and would be a great addition to the game, on many levels. It would give players who don't belong to a guild store a place where they sell their items on the market. It would also open up player homes to more people.

surfcat

Yes

VaranisArano wrote: »

Yes...but I'd also like a Banker that has access to my guild stores and a Merchant who can repair my gear so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get lucky anytime soon.

I Second this! Very very EMPHATICALLY!

FeedbackOnly

Yes

Just small trader for selling like housing stuff

TheImperfect

Yes

BulletMagnetX wrote: »

I'm not sure what you would use it for exactly.

I'd be more inclined to spend time in my houses if they got invaded by bandits and monsters from time to time.

Please this is my worst nightmare, I feel homes are a haven. If it was optional I may use it if I was feeling like it but definitely don't want that by default.

spartaxoxo

Yes

TheImperfect wrote: »

BulletMagnetX wrote: »

I'm not sure what you would use it for exactly.

I'd be more inclined to spend time in my houses if they got invaded by bandits and monsters from time to time.

Please this is my worst nightmare, I feel homes are a haven. If it was optional I may use it if I was feeling like it but definitely don't want that by default.

Well all furnishings are optional in this game. So you wouldn't need to place it if you didn't want to and you can also set who is allowed to visit your house.

Beardimus

Yes

I don't want this persay, but do want a guild bank / guild store assistant. Both for home and the wild.

Would pay 10k crowns happily..

Or a banker that just does both

phaneub17_ESO

Just show me the results already

You know if they do add traders to homes it won't be a personal trader only you can set up shop; that would be too much strain on their servers if everyone had their very own in house shop and difficult to track data for them. No, it'll be a global trader that guilds would have to bid against like any other, the difference is you're just paying crowns to have that particular trader in a home that would be connected to all others who placed the same one in their homes as well.

Jeremy

Yes

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You know if they do add traders to homes it won't be a personal trader only you can set up shop; that would be too much strain on their servers if everyone had their very own in house shop and difficult to track data for them. No, it'll be a global trader that guilds would have to bid against like any other, the difference is you're just paying crowns to have that particular trader in a home that would be connected to all others who placed the same one in their homes as well.

Unless the servers are made of cardboard, they ought not to have a hard time tracking simple lists of items for sale. Just loading a single player probably has more data to track than a thousand of those lists.

What puts strain on the server is a lot of players in the same area, and houses already have strict population caps. So they are ideal for personal traders. In fact, it would probably help the server perform better because it would help thin the general population out across all areas and divide them up more.

LalMirchi

No

No, not all suggestions are good. The game is fine as it is.

honglatongla

No

Make the banker do it.

Eponavandrel

No

Hell no. IMO we already have too much in our houses. Lets get daily writ quests, traders, trial and arena portals, crafting nodes, actually everything available overland and in game world will be totaly empty, pointless.

hafgood

No

Who is going to visit to use it?

How are you going to let people know your house has stuff to buy in it?

Who wants to traipse round multiple houses looking to see what's for sale?

Most people only check the main trading history where there are multiple guild traders, not just one. And without loading screens in between each one.

This idea needs a bit more thought put into it before it could even be considered

DreamyLu

No

No but to be understood as: "don't mind if it's added but wouldn't use it".

ApoAlaia

No

No, but as the fellow player above said, as in 'wouldn't want it for myself but I would not be opposed to the idea'.

That is how it was implemented in FO76 with the vending machines and I was never fond of it there, I cannot see myself being fond of it in this game either.

If however it would be implemented like it was in FO76 where the 'stock' was kept in one's own storage - and all the shenanigans that came with that choice - rather than the trader having its own storage as regular guild traders do then no, not at all, not for me neither for anyone else.

Jeremy

Yes

hafgood wrote: »

Who is going to visit to use it?

How are you going to let people know your house has stuff to buy in it?

Who wants to traipse round multiple houses looking to see what's for sale?

Most people only check the main trading history where there are multiple guild traders, not just one. And without loading screens in between each one.

This idea needs a bit more thought put into it before it could even be considered

You would know the same way most everyone else knows which trader to check, by looking on TTC. Then you would add the player to your list and just visit their primary residence. Or they could simply add a text command you could type to enter the player's house. That is unless you're one of those unfortunates who have to meander from guild trader to guild trader just hoping to come across what you are looking for, in which case trading is already a nightmare and adding personal traders isn't going to change that.

I know I would use it. I'm sure many others would as well.

Bradyfjord

No

I'd rather they make an actual Auction House that everyone can participate on. Then, maybe we can circle back and discuss other trading related concerns.

Jeremy

Yes

Eponavandrel wrote: »

Hell no. IMO we already have too much in our houses. Lets get daily writ quests, traders, trial and arena portals, crafting nodes, actually everything available overland and in game world will be totaly empty, pointless.

Adding a personal trader to someone's house wouldn't replace the traders in the overland, which would still be better stocked due to the fact they encompass an entire guild. So there is no danger of this suggestion causing the overland to become empty.