Nobody mentioned the new Auction system yet?

Granted, it's sneaky in Party window, but with all the requests for something like it, this got really little attention.

Is it possible to filter out the trade items?

Nope afaik... They might alter it a bit if we're lucky coz that would be a must tbh

Ohhh, interesting hidden function.

I didn't think about that, but yeah, cool.

yep, Here's our auction house. I think we crossed everything off our list.

It's not an auction house per say, but it should hopefully cut down on the spam and help people sell and buy things easier.

It could be used as a type of auction system, users will have to keep updating thier ad with the latest bids.

When it comes to an actual auction system most users want something like available in other mmos like SWG where you goto the auction system, put it in and then leave it and you do not have to stay there to keep it going. You can go offline or continue playing and come back to it at a later time.

Such a feature would be a welcome addition but i think what they have added today will help immensely and i hope it gets used to it's full potential.

It would be a lot easier to use if you could type more into the description, but it beats the hell out of what we had before. /highfive Anet!

This won't keep the spam away for long, because you have to stay at the computer to watch whispers and can't go away and have the transaction done automatically. Basically all this does is save typing work. Hopefully it will be changed a bit soon

That's a good point about having to stay at the computer waiting for the whispers. Maybe they should bring back the old PM inbox that they used to have in the betas.

Wait....the party search is only for the town/outpost you're in isn't it?

I wish it's global though....

Yay, less spam.

Happy that the reconnects is live, especially because my PC runs like a rusty clock.
Crashed a few times in gate of pain when i had made some progress and not wiped, which is... "inconvenient".

Nice little update Anet but i'm still waiting for the hunt the evil santa quest. Spotted somewhere in the world...go find him!

Hit 'P' and you will see people WTS things. I realize there is a thread on the new party feature, but this can be used to discuss using it in a manner to facilitate trading goods.

How about some opinions of those crying out for auction house ? Will this suffice ?

I noticed that! I considered it a Trade Improvement, it's definately nice. Have to wait a while to see if it really helps with continuous WTS spam. For buyers, it will be easier to find the things you want to buy, though, I think.

Love it!! have local and trade off now!! a filter would be the next step.. sold a few things already with it

yea some what...lets just see.. wel one omprovement we need is diff tabs... so trade wont be in the same screen as party.. idk if this is how it is now... to lazy to look

I was pretty hasty in my original post, but with additional review I've found the following.

It seems to list all entries for a given city, however not including international if you are in a local district and vice versa.

There seems to be no filter for each of the four types: mission, quest, hunting, trade. No tab as mentioned above - serving the same purpose. We'll see how much this is needed in time.

People are using the hunting channel for such things as guild recruitment, WTS, and other non-sensical comments (that will hopefully go away after the newness wears off).

People don't appear smart enough to use the trade option for WTS and WTB. I guess this shouldn't surprise me, but it does.

You only see the leader of the party and number of heroes - you don't see other human party members, although you can whisper that person easily enough, I suppose.

These points are not criticisms, but merely observations. I'm sure in time we'll have our thoughts for ANet, but for now, kudos - it seems like a nice feature.

This is in desperate need of a filtering system of some sort.

Without any way of sorting the list this might as well be more spam.

I do not play wow but one thing they did get right was the auction house.

i love it too, but it woudl be better if they let us type a little bit more text into it