Remove Poe.trade, make a IN GAME global trade market

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Youstink685 wrote:

As the title proceeds my idea is to remove the Poe.trade and replace it with a in game version more simplified (and could possibly get them more money as well). You make it so next to the stash (Right next to it) there is a object (what it looks like does not matter, you could use a portal and add a cute animation to throw items thru it when you sell and get them when you buy). Its fairly simple of a setup (it will increase the amount the server keeps track of, but it already keeps track of equipment and inventory, so this should be small in comparison) all you do is have 10-20 slots for selling, you can put up items or currency on there. Then it shows up after pressing the accept/ok button for the buyers, you make a simple search bar (just like in the chest) for what you are buying AND what you will trade it for (separate search bars). So if you want chaos you type in chaos, and orb of alteration. Boom first one comes up they will give 1 chaos for 18 alteration, press the buy button at the end. And there you have it, you sold your alteration, and got 1 chaos for it. Same can work with weapons, and you can make more in depth searches (just like in Poe.trade). For selling, grab the item put it in your inventory (don't allow it to grab equipped items), then tab-click or click and drop (like putting it into a chest or inventory) it into the slot (the slot will be 4 x 2 like a 2h weapon, if its smaller just auto center it), then you have 2 options to the right, 1 is auction it for bidding (max 5 of these, consume the normal slots like a normal sell as well), then its a standard auction set up the parameters and your done. For normal selling just type in what you want for it (buy out price). Have the name to the left, so you can tap it and whisper to the player, if you think its to expensive or maybe have other plans for it, or its a guild/clan member/friend and wanted it possibly for free or if you want to possibly trade something else for it. This allows for the normal Poe.trade, but in game with a fairly simple interface, no complicated selling method, no more threads on trading on these forums.

EDIT: Also, you could add a search bar in the market to search your inventory for the item to sell it, and for buying show you how much you have below the amount they want, and each press shows you how much you still have left after buying one. You can also run stocks like in Poe.trade, where if you have multiples of currency you want to trade for, you can make it so it will stay up with all of those until there are none left. Make it so everyone can cancel sells anytime they want (or make a minor penalty if it is pulled 1 hour after selling it, after that no penalty and it can be removed, this prevents trolling and causing unwanted lag). When it sells it keeps in in the market (it stores it, max of 10 slots (with 5k max per stacks, 1 for equipment, jewels, gems exc.), so people can stack resources if they sell in bulk, the previous trade, with 280 chaos in stock, would stack it all and take 2 stacks (since its 5040 alteration), then when you want to go to the market and collect its one simple button, just press it and it fills the inventory as much as it can (if it fills the inventory, then it keeps what is not removed from the market).

For the money part, you could add in the micro transactions for extra slots and possibly other things of this nature.

Is it me, or should this have been implemented when the game came out?

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PyleWarlord wrote:

is it really that hard to press enter sometimes?

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idiocyincarnate wrote:

The only reason many of the items you find have any value is because of the somewhat tedious process of listing, buying or selling items is.

The auction house in Diablo 3 destroyed the value of any good item that wasn't basically the 0.01% of the best. The constant undercutting was a problem and the fact that it was quick and easy to list and search for any item with any stats.