Currency Exchange System

Here's a system I thought of, based of the Runescape GrandExchange.

How it works:
You want to trade 10 chaos for 20 fusings

Person A throw chaos in exchange, and put the ratio you want, 1:2 fusing and press exchange.
It starts searching.

Person B wants fusings and throws in 20 fusings at a ratio of 2:1 chaos and presses exchange.

The system gives person A person B's fusings and person B gets person A's chaos.

If there are no people with fusings/chaos you are put in queue, and a partial exchange is possible;

say:

Person A wants 20 fusings for 10 chaos, puts his chaos in the exchange

Person B puts 10 fusings and wants 5 chaos

Person A gets 10 fusings and is still in queue for 10 more.


This should all be automated and the currency ratio will be put by players, not by GGG. I just find the trade channels being flooded with mostly currency trades and this will not ruin player interaction whatsoever.

There should be a limit on higher tier currencies so you cant hog your queue position and buy it all. Say you can exchange 10 exalts an hour using the system.


Also you can get a better deal then what you posted, but never get a worse deal.

Say person A wants 20 fusings for 10 chaos again

Person B puts in 20 fusings but wants 5 chaos

Person A will get 20 fusings and get 5 chaos change, and person B will be at a "loss" but it's his own fault. You can never lose money.


Please comment :)

But I already do that by making a public party.

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Caessa wrote:

But I already do that by making a public party.

well the point of this system is to
1) clean up trade chat
2) clean up public party list

i understand trading for items, but when it comes to currency it's just primitive. if poe has a 'unique' currency system, that's fine; just don't make it a hassle.

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GrammerPolise wrote:

Absolutely 100% fucking NO

This is completely the antithesis of how loot and bartering is meant to work in this game.

This is nothing more than an auction house, lol

/facepalm

this is an 'auction house' ONLY for currency, nothing else.

Do we have to yell outside when we want to trade dollars for euros? no.

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marat569 wrote:

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GrammerPolise wrote:

Absolutely 100% fucking NO

This is completely the antithesis of how loot and bartering is meant to work in this game.

This is nothing more than an auction house, lol

/facepalm

this is an 'auction house' ONLY for currency, nothing else.

Do we have to yell outside when we want to trade dollars for euros? no.

Bad analogy. We buy shit via stores and Amazon and EBay and shit.

We don't only use facilities to exchange money, we do it for buying everything. If you wanna use an analogy make sure every facet fits.

This would drive prices into the ground as everybody wants to jump the queue and get a quick sale.

Ontop of this it would destroy any attempt at flipping for profit... basically no, dumb idea is dumb.

+1 for this idea
I don't know why other posters opposed this.

If you want to spam the channels and make public parties, fine, you can do it. Nowhere he says GGG should ban trading parties or trading chat all together.

I don't want to sit in town centre and spam my "20 chaos for 1 exalt" trade request for hours instead of enjoying the game.

This will also make offline currency trading possible FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES.