You could have 10x the current number of spots and your guild can still lose the bid. That's the nature of blind bidding. If a location is being targeted aggressively a GM may choose to go for another location and/or raise the bid significantly the next week. Nearly every guild in the game will lose a spot occasionally. It sucks, but most times they are back next week. If you're not interested in paying 10k a week, there are still guilds out there that keep traders fairly consistently and charge nothing to members other than optional donations (at least on PC)

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

every expansion brings more...

The problem is that they are locked behind the expansion. The increase needs to be done on the base game areas. Not certain when or if they had ever made this increase yet the game has pushed ahead with increased players. One Tamriel also changed the dynamics as a guild could get a Trader in any land instead of only in their factions lands and dlc's.

There are plenty of traders in out of the way places that guilds usually manage to keep week in week out. The turnover isn't as good as in the main towns but stock still sells. As someone who also buys, I would not like to have to spend more time checking more traders for the things I want (console here, no add ons).

Maybe they need to have a ballot system: they set fixed prices for the various locations, place all guilds who bid that amount into a pool and draw their names at random until all traders are allocated for that area. I think ZOS like the gold sink of the current system, so probably wouldn't change it.

I know some people think a fee system is gold down the drain but simply charging guild members a flat fee is the easiest way for most guilds to function at the moment. I know there are other ways guilds can make money but they take a lot of time to manage, plan and organize, often preventing GMs and officers from actually playing the game.

I'm torn about an increase in slots though.
Unless your primary goal is to sell as much as you can, and you have an enormous supply of stock, wouldn't 60 slots clear you out pretty quick if the stock was moving (especially in a main town location)?
And if you had a slow trader spot, you could go a couple of weeks without having to restock. Prices fluctuate, suddenly your stuff is under or over priced and one day you are offering everyone a bargain or charging way too much.

I have traded in as many as 4 guilds at a time and the time spent restocking can get very tedious. Now I just go on and list stuff when I feel like it.

An idea I had for this:

Let each trader host 2 guilds. The highest two bidders get the trader, and their store results are combined in the guild trader search.

Would effectively double the number of trader slots available, and would also introduce an interesting new trader paradigm where guilds could make alliances to hold the same trader together.

eso do need to address this issue , do think all guilds that have the required amount of active players be given a choice of trader locations . if you look some places stonefalls only has 1 guild trader , do think they can put say 6 more outside, and a few more inside .

come on eso wake up just make more locations available so all guilds can have a trader .

Grimm13 wrote: »

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

every expansion brings more...

The problem is that they are locked behind the expansion. The increase needs to be done on the base game areas. Not certain when or if they had ever made this increase yet the game has pushed ahead with increased players. One Tamriel also changed the dynamics as a guild could get a Trader in any land instead of only in their factions lands and dlc's.

Actually, guilds could always get traders in any faction. But yes, the only time they added traders to the regular zones was when they added Outlaw Refuges. There are plenty of empty carts around existing traders that could accomodate a couple of extras.

Turelus wrote: »

There are already plenty of trader spots. Many of the back water ones are held by guilds with don't have more than three pages of items listed. People just only want more in the main cities.

More will be added with the next Chapter and any new DLC any way.

Those traders are not cheap either though. I used to be able to get an out of town trader for 30k. Not for a long time though.

Turelus wrote: »

There are already plenty of trader spots. Many of the back water ones are held by guilds with don't have more than three pages of items listed. People just only want more in the main cities.

More will be added with the next Chapter and any new DLC any way.

Those traders are not cheap either though. I used to be able to get an out of town trader for 30k. Not for a long time though.[/quote]
What are you doing to encourage growth and income from your guild to fund the traders?

If your guild has a lot of members who are dedicated to getting posts and making sure they're selling desired items at good priced (slash 10% off the "normal" price) then you should have a good flow of gold. Then add in some lotteries or something to encourage donations and you should be able to make the needed gold to get a trader outside a main city.

As a console player, there are enough traders. I don't make it to all of them as-is. What they need is a global search function. Either at the bank, or an exterior Web site/app like TTC. It could even cost crowns or come bundled with ESO+.

sho_nuff wrote: »

As a console player, there are enough traders. I don't make it to all of them as-is. What they need is a global search function. Either at the bank, or an exterior Web site/app like TTC. It could even cost crowns or come bundled with ESO+.

Exactly this. Without a 'global' search function or even basic text search functionality when you are at a trader, adding more traders will just make finding items harder and more of a chore for console players.

If I want something like a Hlaalu motif, unless I put minimum price in the search panel (and potentially miss out on the bargain of a lifetime), I could potentially scroll through 20+ pages of purple motifs AT EVERY TRADER I VISIT. Surely a text panel where I can enter 'Hla' or 'Hlaalu' to only list matching motifs is not that hard to implement.