Auction/Trade Stash System - What are your thoughts?

I would like to propose an auction stash system, let me know what you guys think.

Instead of players selling in trade by yelling every few lines, allow us to deposit any items we want to sell in an 'Auction Stash' (name to be confirmed).

This would be an additional stash in town where you drop items you wanted to trade. You can also search for items you need at the auction stash by entering in the common parameters. For example:

Search -> Bows

However, besides item type, you would not be able to customize it further. By choosing bows it would search for bows appropriate for your character within a 10 level range or similar.

Once you had done this, the items in the 'Auction Stash' would fill up randomly with level 40-50 bows if you are a level 45 character that other people had put in their Auction stashes.

You can then hover over the items to see the stats and the current owner of the item. Upon right clicking, you can send that person an offer for that item. Alternatively you could just whisper them.

The person who is selling that item would receive a message stating the name of the item and the offer which would just be a typed message eg: Strong Bow of Butchery - 2 x exalted. The player could then click a prompt to say yes or no to the offer. Because of the random nature of the items populating the stash tab when people query, the person shouldn't receive too many offers to interrupt gameplay but should get enough interest to warrant a sale.

If the offer is accepted, both players would receive a message to inform them to meet up with each other and dispatch the trade - this could also be automated if you want but I believe the interaction during the trade is important.

I think this system could be pretty fun to use as still retains the aspects of trading and barter which makes things great, you could send multiple requests and offers to someone and make it a fun trading game.

PS: I am pretty happy with the game as it is regardless, but maybe trading could be a little more interactive for certain purchases. For example its pretty tough to find gear specific for a certain build - let alone good examples of it.

TL;DR: Auction house system with a twist

If anyone has already suggested something like this, I apologize

EDIT 1: Forgot to add this originally.

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Beatz0121 wrote:

and if you are Offline your items wont show in stash so your not Pming Offline players.

EDIT 2: Added GGG quote

[Quote=GGG]"
At Open Beta, we will have a range of different microtransactions for sale, including many of the following:
Public stash tabs (viewable to other players for trade purposes)
Cosmetic pets
Alternate skill effects
Special animations (for example, taunts or PvP victory animations)
Special paid leagues (with custom game rules)
Guild storage
Alternate item skins and visual effects
Special cosmetic item properties such as “extra gore”
Item dyes[/quote]

Not bad.

I like this!

and if you are Offline your items wont show in stash so your not Pming Offline players.

I'm pretty sure GGG already have plans to add Public stash tabs in the Micro store.

Not sure how it exactly works, but similiar to what you're suggesting.

Would love to see a middle ground between the current system and a full feature AH.

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Beatz0121 wrote:

and if you are Offline your items wont show in stash so your not Pming Offline players.

Yeah, I forgot to mention this.

Added to OP

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Dendrobium_Orchis wrote:

I'm pretty sure GGG already have plans to add Public stash tabs in the Micro store.

Not sure how it exactly works, but similiar to what you're suggesting.

That would be really cool if it was a similar refined system - I'd buy it ASAP.

And AH that isn't an AH. I had several reasons to be against an AH, but after reading your post - with the caveat that items can't be seen/sold if you're character isn't online - is actually a great idea imo.

Well done.

Great idea man!