Glurin wrote: »

I don't think you have any idea how quickly this set up would get exploited and completely out of control.

I'm sure there would be issues with this, don't get me wrong. But I clearly didn't go into great depth on this idea either, just like many features in the game, it's not 100% fair or perfect, but I think ZOS could get it working properly for the most part.The biggest issue I see from what I stated is the reselling of property which would end up making stores to purchase EXTREMELY expensive. But even then it is only an idea. But aside from a small feature I mentioned for purchasing said land, I feel like the system could only improve the lousy and quite inefficient spamming in chats trying to sell items.

And one could argue that the Guild Stores work perfectly fine. And for the general flipping of items, sure, it does. But I see so much potential in stores dedicated to say, for example, smithing. It's very hard and time consuming to go and level smithing to create better weapons and armor, so instead of that, players can decide to max their smithing and make money with it. This would make some players want to level their crafting skills, and make others not so worried about it. And both are good.

And also for me, I find the most annoying thing about wanting to purchase something specific is tracking someone down, when instead if there's stores, you know where you can go for something specific such as buying a motif you want.

(I know I said a lot, not attacking you, but just decided to go ahead and justify my reasoning to some things.)

Bryanonymous wrote: »

They already do.

Not talking about normal smithing, alchemy, enchanting(etc.) shops run by NPC's or Guild Stores.

There are several guild traders hired weekly with 30 items or less total in the shop. So technically it is possible now.

People complain about the lack of a central trader and find browsing all of the decentralized traders around Tamriel distasteful. Imagine if there were hundreds of PC traders to browse.

While it would be nice to know where you can find a specific person or guild and not have to worry about them losing a bid to hold the same spot each week, it would literally be the same as a guild winning the bid for their spot over and over without the bid. Kinda pointless.

At first glance this could seem like a good idea. But when you think about it maybe not. As already mentioned this would probably end up getting terribly exploited. And if many players were to make a store would they maintain them? After a while many stores would just die and the owner would just dismiss them. Some ideas seem cool at first, but in the long run they might just be bad ideas.

I voted no because, if you've ever played Aion online, you would know how cluttered the quest hubs can get with player stores all over the place. Now if they were only above to setup shop in a specific place like a bazaar area (not crowded quest hubs) that might work.

Just let players sell out of their homes, establish storefronts. The players that are interested in that play style will have the better stores, no need to buy them. Housing is going to be a big enough gold sink in the game for awhile, no need for another right now. This will give players an actual reason to visit players homes. Kinda like dungeons, remove all that pretty loot at the end, and how many would do them?

That would be neat and a great way to make funds!

My opinion is about to hire the guild traders but in a different way.

I don´t have a guild becuase I don´t expend so much time in this game, or at least, the one supossed to expend on a Guild.

So, it could be nice to hire a NPC but should be not required to belong to a guild.

This way, you could ahve this NPC´s shop the way you want, if someone want to buy your shop, this one should pay me the way you have said before.

BTW i don´t see any problems, because a guild with 50 members or even 10, will ahve more money than me so they could afford this easily than me.

While writing this I´m thinking on a "Top sell price". Let me explain the situation:

I buy a NPC seller by 100g, I won´t sell this NPC shop to people who offer me for it less than 1000g. BUT NOW, let´s say that there is a price that you can buy the NPC Shop without my permission, like 5000g (THIS QUANTITIES HAS BEEN INVENTED).

I think now you got it:

I buy a NPC shop for 100g, you offer me 500g, i say : Go f**k yourself. But you want that shop above everything so you pay the 5000g and its yours till you sell to another player or other player pay the "Top sell price".

BTOW, once you buy a NPC shop you should have 1 week at least in your property, meanwhile people could offer money and you could sell the vendor. But once this week has finished the first who pay the "Top sell price" get the NPC.

And my last thing is a question, if someone pay the "Top sell price", the money should go to the owner or not?

Greetings!

I am not opposed to it in principle. I just don't know if it would work in practice given the number of players in the game. It could add some variety of the very generic NPC shops.

Might as well just have and AH (auction house).