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Hello, I would like to suggest of having an auction house in this game for each town map. So that players can go to an npc, search for his wanted item and buy without spamming the chatbox. Having an auction house will make things easier.

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Would ruin the economy at the present time, plus encourage gold farming and etc. Too lazy to farm your own crap, is what it sounds like.

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This Auction House sounds like an NPC in Dragonica... But this would be a great idea... I think

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The "Auction House" originated from R*s*ng F*rc* Online (correct me if I'm wrong). The system has been used in numerous MMO's since. While it's a good idea for the lazy bones, it sorts of demotes social marketing....

Marketing in an Online Game is a truly tough call, Auction house incites laziness and decreases social marketing while allowing people who does not have a pc on all day sell their wares, whereas Personal Vending increases social marketing and makes the economy slightly more stable but those without pcs at home cannot fully enjoy such features.

I believe it's a dilemma present in any MMORPG Development and it would be best to just live with what has been developed for the game instead. In this case, Personal vending. :<

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the auction house sounds great!

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Ooh I had another idea.

Running Auction House along with the vending. Except that the Auction house will automatically deduct 15% of your sales as income.

IE: You sell chips for 1m, when a person buys a chip of yours via the AH, you'll gain only 850bit.

This will promote Personal vending while at the same time giving those who can't always vend a chance to sell their wares. :3

Also a Trade chat channel will somewhat reduce the spamming of trades on shout chat. While the golden rule of MMOs will be included (No trading over the shout chat, violators will be given a suspension) with the implementation of the Trade chat.

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Romulous stop doing these +1 posts or I will have to report you, it's annoying and pointless trying to get your post count up to wave your epeen around.

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a auction house is a good idea i think it is a better idea than the private shops.

better for lag (example: 200 shops in dats channel 1 i think it will be unstable then on that channel)

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auction house would be very helpful for people trying to buy things who have to jump through multiple channels and waste their time clicking on every shop they see just to find it. It wouldn't really effect the economy considering it would be the same as the shops, undercutting would exist just like the shops that put "cheaper than >>" next to someone and undercut them like crazy.  The only thing is, it would allow players to keep playing the game instead of having to waste their time sitting as a shop, or keeping their computers on when they are offline to keep their shop up.

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Yeah  Auction house would say a lot of trouble for sellers & buyers. Also it would mean less char player shops logged in always which reduces server traffic. Also gives me a place to sell all the items from all 4 of my bank chars at once.    

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Am I the only one that sees that the economy is already ruined? With the cash shop released, we saw roughly a 400% inflation. Very, very bad. Auction house seems like a hit or miss for me at the present time. Hopefully commercial release lowers prices and stabilizes the economy more.