Private Shops

Originally Posted by Bhaaltazar

I had an idea about trading in a post from a week ago or soo...

Instead of all this confusion about WTS, WTT( bunch of bonuses, health, bla bla bla nobody wants to read... ) i woul prefer to have CTRL + Click item sistem.. That would mean that what ever u want to sell u vould ctrl click it and a link( name and color of item ) would apear... when u see something of interest u would see the stats ( like if u set cursor on your current gear )

u could ctrl click all items u wanted to sell like this... and there wouldnt be so many confusion in trade window ( same colors, not knowing what color r they selling....... ).. if u would be interested in greens u could see the green links, gsame with gold etc...

I think any other system would be better than one we r forced to use right now...

Originally Posted by Evil Hypnotist

A great idea, the biggest problem with WTS yelling is that in busy areas this can fly by so fast on chat you can't see whats being offered without scrolling up over loads of text. It would also reduce the people who keep spamming what they are offering....then again they would probably just spam "Come to my shop!!!" instead :/

Originally Posted by Bhaaltazar

not just in WoW in few others as well... What works great doesnt need to be fix or re-invented though....

Originally Posted by Zehnchu

What about giving the Xunlai Agent and extra duty, auctioning your stuff for you. You put the item you want to sell in your storage set a price and walk away. The window would have different categories separating them, Sword, staff, ect.. For those who are looking to buy they would have to have the amount of gold on hand, like you would buying something from a merchant. That way once they buy the item the money goes directly into you storage.

Originally Posted by xxSilhouette

nice idea.

Originally Posted by honnaja

Yes I know the selling situation has been discussed, but I haven't seen this specific idea anywhere and the last post I've seen on the 'Auction House' idea was several months ago. Also, the search function seems to be disabled at present..

Anyway, I just wanted to suggest another Vending system. This is not my idea but was the trading system in another game I played briefly and I think it's an excellent system.

Basically, each player can put up their own 'vending chest'. This consists of simply placing items for sale in the chest, which would be much like placing items into storage, then entering your asking price. Your 'stand' (chest, shop, whatever) is then activated by sitting down, which causes an icon to appear over your head indicating that you have items for sale. In the game that I played that used this system, you could then go off to do your weekly shopping or go to work or whatever, and come back hours later to find you'd made lots of money!! - or very little, on account of you having complete rubbish in your 'chest' or just because your prices were too high.. hehe

To purchase items you'd just click (or ctrl. click, shift. click, whatever) on the vendor's icon and drag an item from their chest to your inventory. The gold would automatically be deducted from your funds. The item would be yours without any need for interaction from the other person: they did their bit before they went off on holiday

Like I said, I thought this was a brilliant trading system and I would like to see it in Guild Wars. I don't know about the mechanics of coding a trading system but I'd guess that it's easier than the Auction Houses I've read about..



EDIT: Someone found my post and added to this thread. That's fine, wasn't my idea anyway unfortunately. I'm just glad the idea is 'out there' and hope anet will see and consider it sometime..

Originally Posted by Zehnchu

It’s called copyright’s infringement.



What about giving the Xunlai Agent and extra duty, auctioning your stuff for you. You put the item you want to sell in your storage set a price and walk away. The window would have different categories separating them, Sword, staff, ect.. For those who are looking to buy they would have to have the amount of gold on hand, like you would buying something from a merchant. That way once they buy the item the money goes directly into you storage.