auction house

generalmyrick wrote: »

auction house

You really don't. I get where you're sitting there thinking, "this would be so great," but the truth is, it'd suck.

The current system functionally prevents extensive gaming of the market. You'll get people saying, "oh, but you can still do that with addons," or, "people already do that on the consoles." Thing about this is, they're wrong. If you believe that, you're wrong. The degree of market manipulation possible on a unified auction house is staggering.

The mistake most people make is in thinking that, because you'd have people manipulating the market, that would make the goodies they got as drops more valuble. In a raw, statistical sense, this is true: If someone drove the price of Tempering Alloys to 20k, you'd be able to get more gold from selling them. Except, in the event of a global auction house, that manipulation would extend accross the board. So, you'd see radical price hikes on a wide variety of goods, effectively making the additional gold you obtained selling an alloy meaningless. (Except in relation to fixed in game gold sinks.)

Right now, if someone decided they wanted to set the price for Maz chests at 1m gold... they really can't do that. Tracking down every instance in the market is functionally impossible. In fact, the addons actively work against this, as they provide historical data on the value, meaning attempting to shift prices significantly will fail, as people will continue listing the previous price, with (possilbly) a minor bump as a result of the errant data.

In a unified system AH, if someone wantd to change the value of something radically, they only need to leave a bot at the Auction House, hoovering up cheap examples of items, and relisting them at their desired price. Then when someone goes to sell an item, if they check the AH listings, they see the new, artificial price, and may choose to undercut that by some margin. However, their undercutting would still be significantly higher than the pre-manipulated price.

As for who would do this? Gold sellers. They have the most to gain, as they can generate additional cash for themselves, and further incentivize people to buy their services.

So, no, I get where you think, "hey, this'll let me buy whatever I want." Truth is, it will make the stuff you want horrifically expensive, and horrifically devalue the gold you get in game.

1. Expanded or new permission category in housing that allows a designated player to place items as well as moving them for true home sharing.
2. Hair dyeing
3. Adding stolen clothing to outfit system
4. Suppression zones that hide pets and prevent emotes and dueling within a small radius of crafting stations, inside banks, and around/on wayshrines.
5. Non-hairy male skins
6. Make accessories like earrings useable to both sexes like clothing is.
7. And my big impractical pipe dream...offer a "in good repair" version of houses for extra money/crowns. Because I would not leave my walls crumbling if I bought a place and moved into it, and those loose boards in the balcony could cause a nasty fall. Seriously what homeowner fills a place with expensive furniture but leaves the bricks falling out of their front steps?

• Getting these damn dungeon keys out of my bags.
  

Malfious1986 wrote: »

Being able to swap between a PvE and a PvP set up. I know it sounds crazy to some people but there are players like myself who enjoy both PvE and PvP. However having to completely redo our Champion Points and Skill Bars every time we swap from one to another is a massive inconvenience. For myself, it has gotten so annoying that I've mostly stuck with a PvE setup but rely on PvP gear to somewhat offset it, as the changes take so long and cost gold, which is silly. For QoL I would introduce a shrine or something where you can use it to 'pray' or whatever and it swaps you to a saved second spec. So when you decide to do other types of content it can be done relatively quickly. Then you can just use it again to go to your other setup. I strongly believe that if this was implemented more people would explore more of the content as they would feel less boxed in to a certain playstyle.

This is entirely reasonable. Though, I honestly hope that the revised champion point system we get will be more modular passive system. Sort of like how active skills work now.

Neoicelord wrote: »

if this game had an auction house and got rid of this useless trader system, that would be great.

SOMETHING to make this feel like a REAL mmorpg and not an online elder scrolls game.

if you are making an mmorpg, it's MMORPG FIRST, the IP second.

Not sure what an auction house has to do with an RPG??? Which the "MMO" label doesn't change the fact it is an RPG.

1. Integrate every addon that we MUST use in order to be able to play and have a good time.
A few examples: minimap, the trade guilds one, the quest log for multiple quest tracking, map pins for skyshards and lore books, skill point tracker, the one that lets you sort your inventory by types of things like light, medium, heavy armor, etc.

2. Better optimization for lower latency and higher fps.

3. Shorter and fewer loading screens.

4. If you have a 60/60/60 mount skills in one character you could buy all of them at once with another (45k). In other words without the cooldown to the highest level in your account/server. Prob wont happen because people buy upgrades from the store.

5. More attention to the imperials as a whole. Race passives, new enemies, new quests in Cyrodiil or whatever, more lore, etc.

That's what I can think of right now

Public damage meters at the end of a trial or dungeon, or open up the damage api to allow for a site similar to wowlogs, fflogs, there is one for eso, but group parses aren't good enough to analyze it yet.