Individual Trading Post Feature

JadonSky · May 2019

Wanted to see what your thoughts are on Individual trading post. What i mean by this is when I played AION back in the day, there was a trading feature where you could actually put your toon in AFK trading state. You could then add a small amount of items you wanted to list for trade. Your character would then go into an emote where they were sitting in a chair holding a sign where you had a 150 character limit, letting passing player know you had items for trade and could buy them directly from you for what ever price you posted it for.

I always thought this was a cool feature bc it still required a guild store if you wanted to list a bunch of items but also gave you an option to sell unique items yourself without a posting fee and you could only display like 10 items. I will say the known issue for this, at least in aion, was that when you were in the trading post state you afk time was increased from 20 minute to 90 minutes. So some players would just use the feature to stay in the game longer while afk so i know that is a risk.

But always thought it was a cool feature and it was kinda cool to walk into a town with a bunch of people setup like a market place with rare gear and items for sell so it felt like a more real in game buying experience. Plus it didn't remove the need for guild store bc they had a small limit on what they could post it usually was rare or high priced items that they might sell for a little cheaper then a guild store.

Would this be a feature you would like to see?

VaranisArano · May 2019

If I've got a few, high priced items to sell, I'd use the function that lets me advertise to every player in the area.

Zone Chat.

"WTS [Sai Sahan's Jack], [Sai Sahan's Sword] for X gold"

For anything I want to sell AFK, I put in my trading guilds.

JadonSky · May 2019

VaranisArano wrote: »

If I've got a few, high priced items to sell, I'd use the function that lets me advertise to every player in the area.

Zone Chat.

"WTS [Sai Sahan's Jack], [Sai Sahan's Sword] for X gold"

For anything I want to sell AFK, I put in my trading guilds.

Yeah in AION you still would manually write WTS in zone this just gave you the extra feature that someone could also see you had items for sale that are around you. And the sign you were holding was very visibly and you had 150 text limit. So as people walked by you they could see what you wrote like "Have X items for sale".

So it was nice that you could still promote but you had the benefit that everyone near you (especially if you setup shop in a major city) could also see what you had as they passed giving you multiple market opportunity.

Its more of just a nice to have feature and add some marketing feel to the game in my opinion.

Danikat · May 2019

JadonSky wrote: »

Wanted to see what your thoughts are on Individual trading post. What i mean by this is when I played AION back in the day, there was a trading feature where you could actually put your toon in AFK trading state. You could then add a small amount of items you wanted to list for trade. Your character would then go into an emote where they were sitting in a chair holding a sign where you had a 150 character limit, letting passing player know you had items for trade and could buy them directly from you for what ever price you posted it for.

I always thought this was a cool feature bc it still required a guild store if you wanted to list a bunch of items but also gave you an option to sell unique items yourself without a posting fee and you could only display like 10 items. I will say the known issue for this, at least in aion, was that when you were in the trading post state you afk time was increased from 20 minute to 90 minutes. So some players would just use the feature to stay in the game longer while afk so i know that is a risk.

But always thought it was a cool feature and it was kinda cool to walk into a town with a bunch of people setup like a market place with rare gear and items for sell so it felt like a more real in game buying experience. Plus it didn't remove the need for guild store bc they had a small limit on what they could post it usually was rare or high priced items that they might sell for a little cheaper then a guild store.

Would this be a feature you would like to see?

Am I understanding correctly - to use this feature you have to be logged in to the character and therefore can't do anything else in the game? So it's even more restrictive than trying to sell in zone chat, where at least you can be crafting or using the bank or whatever in between spamming messages?

That alone guarantees I'd never use it. Trading in this game wastes enough time as it is, without making it even more impractical.

pandoraderomanus · May 2019

I saw and used this feature in another game, Perfect World. It was actually cool, whenever you don't play (at night/during the day at work, etc) just stand in some crowdy place and sell your stuff. The only huge problem was terrible performance in crowdy places (like big cities). In ESO this feature is not really possible to implement - the server will just die, we already have performance problems. But the idea in general is nice.

JadonSky · May 2019

pandoraderomanus wrote: »

I saw and used this feature in another game, Perfect World. It was actually cool, whenever you don't play (at night/during the day at work, etc) just stand in some crowdy place and sell your stuff. The only huge problem was terrible performance in crowdy places (like big cities). In ESO this feature is not really possible to implement - the server will just die, we already have performance problems. But the idea in general is nice.

Yeah this would be my biggest worry is well is performance sadly. I still think performance should be ZOS priority over anything else right now so we can actually add cool features like this one.

JadonSky · May 2019

Danikat wrote: »

JadonSky wrote: »

Wanted to see what your thoughts are on Individual trading post. What i mean by this is when I played AION back in the day, there was a trading feature where you could actually put your toon in AFK trading state. You could then add a small amount of items you wanted to list for trade. Your character would then go into an emote where they were sitting in a chair holding a sign where you had a 150 character limit, letting passing player know you had items for trade and could buy them directly from you for what ever price you posted it for.

I always thought this was a cool feature bc it still required a guild store if you wanted to list a bunch of items but also gave you an option to sell unique items yourself without a posting fee and you could only display like 10 items. I will say the known issue for this, at least in aion, was that when you were in the trading post state you afk time was increased from 20 minute to 90 minutes. So some players would just use the feature to stay in the game longer while afk so i know that is a risk.

But always thought it was a cool feature and it was kinda cool to walk into a town with a bunch of people setup like a market place with rare gear and items for sell so it felt like a more real in game buying experience. Plus it didn't remove the need for guild store bc they had a small limit on what they could post it usually was rare or high priced items that they might sell for a little cheaper then a guild store.

Would this be a feature you would like to see?

Am I understanding correctly - to use this feature you have to be logged in to the character and therefore can't do anything else in the game? So it's even more restrictive than trying to sell in zone chat, where at least you can be crafting or using the bank or whatever in between spamming messages?

That alone guarantees I'd never use it. Trading in this game wastes enough time as it is, without making it even more impractical.

It's was more of something you would use if you were afk or queue for a dungeon or pvp for a long period of time and were just waiting around (kinda like fishing). Like I said you will still have the guild store option this is just an additional feature for those that would like to use it. But hey I get it, it's not a feature for everyone some will use it some won't.

david_m_18b16_ESO · May 2019

It would just polutate the zone with tons of AFK player and make everything even more laggy.

Kiosq do a bether job.

GarnetFire17 · May 2019

No, they would never allow your character to be taking up resources and space while you are not it in the game. Terrible idea that would just make lag and loading screens worse.

Acharnor · May 2019

That is a really cool idea even with the complications. Especially for those who are not in a trading guild.

redlink1979 · May 2019

While you play, zone chat. For afk there's your guilds traders.