Trade channels - almost impossible to use !!!

I have been following the trade channels for the last few days with the intention of selling a few surplus skill gems and am totally horrified with the way the trade channels have been abused.

GGG is wanting and thus encouraging an "open" in game economy however this is impossible to achieve with the blatant abuse of the channels which have been dedicated for this purpose.

Some common and no doubt known problems:

1. The use of bots to post items for sale
- on the same channels with timed intervals
- on many different channels with the same advert being spammed over and over

2. The persistant spamming of the same advert by those that are not necessarily using bots

The PARTY lists are also getting out of hand with the desperate attempts being made by those either unable to use the trade channels or simply put having not accomplished their sales in the trade areas

It is also apparent that some "traders" are jamming up the PARTY lists advertising currency items where currency trading appears to be one of their main past-times.


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Some possible solutions.....

1. A player cannot post more than 1 advert within a certain period, say 10 minutes.
2. A player may only post an advert on a maximum of say 2 channels at a time.
3. Perhaps the implementation of separate $B (buy) and $S (sell) channels.

The abuse of the trade channels should carry harsh penalties and not just a 10 minute silence by moderators/admins should enough people complain.....if indeed moderators/admins police the trade channels. Perhaps people abusing the trade channels should be banned from posting anything for a period of 24 hours. 2nd offence longer, 3rd offence even longer...e.t.c. Then again the same can be said about those abusing the PARTY list for the purposes of selling stuff.

It is certainly understood that some extreme measures need to be implemented to "save" the trade system.

As it is, with more and more players playing the game, the problems with trade are only getting bigger.....

Time now GGG to stand up and come up with some solutions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spammers would just make more accounts.

The question that should be answered is: How to improve the trade system without killing the game? (like what happened in that game released some time ago).

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Spammers would just make more accounts.

Which is why they need to overhaul the system at the core. Make it so that users can only post at a timed interval, on one channel, and have a max amount of posts within the hour or something like that. This would cut down on spam greatly and actually make the trade chat tick by at some reasonable pace.

Also, eliminating the ability for users to post trade items within the party board would be nice.. I don't see it a lot in Domination, but its clearly a problem.

the trade channel was already impossible to use few months ago nothing changed, ggg keeps bringing shit useless patches while frustraded plaers leaveing the game in masses


the trade channel is the biggest **** shit , the trade system is the BIGGESt **** shit players have ever suffered from


seriously stop patching other stuff please ggg fix this trade chat priority number 1 and after that work on a second system next to maps


chris wilson is not hardcore player enuf does he even play PoE, if he would play it active he would know how crazy shit the trade system in poe is

no debatte

Time to test OP's theory and spam trade chat with hello kitty porn. If what op says is true noone will every notice me doing it.