OK, I don't know how hard it would be, or how to fully impliment it but the positives it would give are tremendous. Here's some I can think of.
1) No more "WTS ..." spamming in the chat windows. This does my head in. You can't use chat as it is intended half the time.
2) The economy of the game would be better. Why? Well, lets say you do a mission and end up with loads of materials. What do you do with most of them? Sell them to the merchant. The more that's done of this, the cheaper the items become, making it less viable for you to sell to other players, meaning you're going to dump it on the merchant, which means the price drops more ... and so on. By having an auction where you could sell materials, more private sales would be made and things like bolts of cloth would then be worth something.
3) Easier aquasition of items you're looking for. Need a FDS? Chances are there'll be one on the auction. Making the game better for you (and the seller of course).
4) Possible increase in speed on this website! I know it sounds strange, but the GWG webby does a great job in providing an auction for us all. However, it's not perfect. You're relying on both parties to be genuine and have to wait for each party to be online before you can complete the transaction. Also, not having the auction section on the site has got to help the server load.
On a side note though, anyone associated with GWG. What is your stance on the auction? Would you prefer it was ingame so you didn't have to provide one, or do you prefer it on here?
Again, I know it's been mentioned but the more we bother them, the more they'll listen.
