HERE IS MY SUGGESTION FOR A TRADE SYSTEM SO CALLED AUCTION IN SO MANY OTHER BILION MMOS.
So we already have 238429432 ingame currency type of items, so why not create another one?
So basicly you make a system just like the current 3rd party POE.TRADE , BUT! everything will be automated IN TERMS OF TRADE, one uses the search option, finds x item, clicks on buy and he doesnt have to wait for the other player to think about if he priced the item right or not, if he wants more for the item even tho he posted up for trade a 6l shavs for 1 alc, just so he can have the first result on the search list, while scraching his balls, you have to wait for a reply, and thats retarded.
All that because the current player interaction is basicly less then 1, more like 0, since all you will see when a trade happens, is the automated pm with the item you wanna sell or buy, and the "optional" TY, thanx or other jargons. thats pretty much it, so why bother? just make it automated.
the main idea for this system is that you wont be selling your items for the normal currencys, like alc alt chaos ex mirror orbs, you will be selling your items for 1 single global currency, that is default only for the auction house / trade system, you cannot do anything else with it but buy and sell items on the auction.
SO BY HAVING A GLOBAL CURRENCY JUST FOR THE AUCTION HOUSE, will let you sell or buy items, BECAUSE THATS WHY YOU ARE USING THE TRADE SYSTEM, TO BUY OR SELL ITEMS. BUT NOT OTHER TYPES OF CURRENCY!
This is the only way we can have an ingame AUCTION HOUSE that cannot be exploited by bots for chinese orb farmers, because they will have NOTHING TO GAIN from it, because on the auction house everything is sold for the unique REASON to get an UPGRADE for your CHARACTER, you sell your old gloves to buy a new pair of gloves, you sell your soul for RNG, but in the end everything sold or got from the auction house will be used. so theres no point in exploiting it, because even if you buy 2423423 items, you will also have to buy 23949294 stash tabs to keep those items, and if you dont use them they are useless.
Now the so called "global auction currency" will be account bound so it can be used on any or all characters from the same account, just like the points you buy to get cosmetics, that kind of global currency i am talking about.
I hope you°ve got the idea, since its pretty simple, you make an auction house that has its own currency, one of a kind, and everything on that auction house sells for that 1 kind of currency as price, and everything is using the points got to buy other items / gear. this currency doesnt even have to appear or be created ingame, it can all be made on a secondary subdomain, like auction.pathofexile. com, and all you have to do is to login on the website to use it, lets say just like ebay. com, everything sells there, you have your points on your account, so it has no interation with the ingame side, the only interation will be between the acccount/characters db and the auction house database, that can even be hosted on the same server, or linked via lan.
I am pretty sure that you make a pool for this kind of auction and ask the players, they will be more then happen to donate 1$ for to create this auction house, and have the means to get another VPS just for it in case its required.
Thank you for your time wasted reading this wall of text and sorry about the mean way about it, also about the CAPS!
have a nice day.
