Hello, i'm still fairly new to SoD, never played live, have 2 years under my belt with mmorpg's (WoW & FFXI). That being said, yes the "Auction House" in WoW and FFXI caused very lame price wars and /ooc type conflicts and annoyances that I know we'd all like to avoid here in SoD. So I think most agree that a search function for auctions/player selling would ruin the game. And the currant Vendor system needs a major change to help older and newer players alike. I've read a few posts about this issue and havent seen any shuguestion like this.
:? In FFXI players could set up their characters to be much like a vendor. We called it "Bazzar" =P ,Setting prices for items and basically leaving them in a given spot to be availiable for people to brouse their wares. This might work for SoD. Problems I see already are, Ofcourse people will leave their toons loged in while their sleeping, this might cause lag, server supporting many characters that arent even playing, ect.... maby have a way to leave 1 character loged in to the server, even though our computers at home arent on to support, sorta like having 1 npc available per account?? So NO search function yes, NO /ooc "OMGZ ! Your Gey (name of player) selling (item) for 120931231p!!!" cause that person may or may not even be loged in... Vendor bot has a different name of course.
Only allow these "vendor bots" to be loged into server selling in certain areas where vendoring is enabled to prevent people from cluttering the bank areas with them. How many people play SoD? 250 or so? So would need an area able to support 250 vendor bots? wow maby my idea sucks, maby not.
Or have a level requirement, have to level your character up to 20, 30, 40 to be able to vendor. Might prevent someone from making 80 some accounts just to vendor
Main reason that I care about this: Bank is full of lower end items that i'd much rather have a person New to SoD have and get some use out of it. I'm not realy out to make a profit, but think it's insane for me to have to spend ALL my hard earned Platnum to have one of the last vendors available in some far off region sell my electrum rings and stuff for only a platnum or 2. Or have to spam /auction with trivial items. And it's such a waste to merchant this stuff. ;(
Since HOL is gone, maby open it up for players to have #10 character on their accounts sit there and be a vendor. Open up a teleport to HOL also. Maby "offline" mode is a bad idea, but i'd be happy to play 1 character at times and have my other sit in this area for a few hours just to unload some stuff.
Hope alot of people see my LONG post and reply with "OMG Eran your stupid! This is why....." or have some further ideas/shuguestions.
thanks for reading my first post/rant
:? In FFXI players could set up their characters to be much like a vendor. We called it "Bazzar" =P ,Setting prices for items and basically leaving them in a given spot to be availiable for people to brouse their wares. This might work for SoD. Problems I see already are, Ofcourse people will leave their toons loged in while their sleeping, this might cause lag, server supporting many characters that arent even playing, ect.... maby have a way to leave 1 character loged in to the server, even though our computers at home arent on to support, sorta like having 1 npc available per account?? So NO search function yes, NO /ooc "OMGZ ! Your Gey (name of player) selling (item) for 120931231p!!!" cause that person may or may not even be loged in... Vendor bot has a different name of course.
Only allow these "vendor bots" to be loged into server selling in certain areas where vendoring is enabled to prevent people from cluttering the bank areas with them. How many people play SoD? 250 or so? So would need an area able to support 250 vendor bots? wow maby my idea sucks, maby not.
Or have a level requirement, have to level your character up to 20, 30, 40 to be able to vendor. Might prevent someone from making 80 some accounts just to vendor
Main reason that I care about this: Bank is full of lower end items that i'd much rather have a person New to SoD have and get some use out of it. I'm not realy out to make a profit, but think it's insane for me to have to spend ALL my hard earned Platnum to have one of the last vendors available in some far off region sell my electrum rings and stuff for only a platnum or 2. Or have to spam /auction with trivial items. And it's such a waste to merchant this stuff. ;(
Since HOL is gone, maby open it up for players to have #10 character on their accounts sit there and be a vendor. Open up a teleport to HOL also. Maby "offline" mode is a bad idea, but i'd be happy to play 1 character at times and have my other sit in this area for a few hours just to unload some stuff.
Hope alot of people see my LONG post and reply with "OMG Eran your stupid! This is why....." or have some further ideas/shuguestions.
thanks for reading my first post/rant
