Auction structure

I propose a change in the auction structure, primarily materials/resources.
Currently the auction involved a lot of time “fishing” unless it’s a planned feature in that case disregard this post, however if it’s not hear me out.

If you predefine the selling quantities on fragments to be x1,x3,x10 then you can force duplicate sales to stack.
For resources id imagine you want around 5 options but its not too hard of creating reasonable borderlines, quantities of 100, 500, 1 000, are already the most common, 5 000, 20 000 should suffice for endgame
To expand on that currently you can have 30 different sales on an uncommon armor fragment over 9 pages. Forcing the players to spend 10 min looking for the “bargain” option where as if sorted in a manner recommended there is nearly no time browsing.

The skeptic would say something along the lines of “so this is a system to allow for easier underbidding then?” the reply is yes it does provide that kind of an angle but it also opens up a lot more advanced market options like regulating the market e.g. average item price can be stably calculated as players will buy out cheaper stacks until the higher price ones discourage trade. (just display a small print of average price/unit paid in past 72 hrs)

Personally I believe this method is a lot more user friendly and avoids new user-exploitation when they do not know the norm of market value. Even experienced players who didn’t invest the past few days monitoring the market to find the appropriate buy/sell price.

soviet wrote:

I propose a change in the auction structure, primarily materials/resources.
Currently the auction involved a lot of time “fishing” unless it’s a planned feature in that case disregard this post, however if it’s not hear me out.

If you predefine the selling quantities on fragments to be x1,x3,x10 then you can force duplicate sales to stack.
For resources id imagine you want around 5 options but its not too hard of creating reasonable borderlines, quantities of 100, 500, 1 000, are already the most common, 5 000, 20 000 should suffice for endgame
To expand on that currently you can have 30 different sales on an uncommon armor fragment over 9 pages. Forcing the players to spend 10 min looking for the “bargain” option where as if sorted in a manner recommended there is nearly no time browsing.

The skeptic would say something along the lines of “so this is a system to allow for easier underbidding then?” the reply is yes it does provide that kind of an angle but it also opens up a lot more advanced market options like regulating the market e.g. average item price can be stably calculated as players will buy out cheaper stacks until the higher price ones discourage trade. (just display a small print of average price/unit paid in past 72 hrs)

Personally I believe this method is a lot more user friendly and avoids new user-exploitation when they do not know the norm of market value. Even experienced players who didn’t invest the past few days monitoring the market to find the appropriate buy/sell price.

We want players to "fish" for the best offer, we want players to interact with the Auction House to find that particular offer which is a "jewel" among others. However, we could make the "presentation" a bit better by adding another value, Ratio. If for example each offer had a Ratio value, 1:1, 1:3, 1:1,5 , and the offers could be sorted according to the ratio, then it would be a lot easier for players to determine which offer is good or bad.

I mentioned it in another thread, but perhaps use Icons for the searches instead of the dropdown.

Quick Paint Job:


What I would love to see in the patch notes:

• Searching for items has changed. Instead of the old dropdown menu, a series of icons in a tree structure will be used to filter your searches. Clicking on any icon will highlight it and include those items in your next search.
  
• Removed "Your Bid" column. An asterisk in front of the bid amount will indicate that it is your bid.
  
• Bid and Buyout show the per item cost in parentheses.
  
• You can click on the header to sort auctions by each column (Name, Bid, Bid per item, Buyout, BO per item, Time Left).
  
• The game saves the last sort & filter that you used and displays that when you reopen the AuctionHouse.
  

Hegorn wrote:

I mentioned it in another thread, but perhaps use Icons for the searches instead of the dropdown.

Quick Paint Job:


What I would love to see in the patch notes:

• Tree structure with icons for search instead of the old dropdown.
  
• Removed "Your Bid" column. An asterisk in front of the bid amount will indicate that it is your bid.
  
• Bid and Buyout show the per item cost in parentheses.
  
• You can click on the header to sort auctions by each column (Name, Bid, Bid per item, Buyout, BO per item, Time Left).
  
• The game saves the last sort & filter that you used and displays that when you reopen the AuctionHouse.
  

Great photoshop work Hegorn! It is possible and probably more user friendly.