Which Auction & Market History improvements would you like?

Which Auction & Market History improvements would you like?

  • Allow Decimals

  • Remove Auction fee to list items

  • Create an 'Exchange' for mats & resources

  • Get rid of the 5 minute extension

  • Increased Auction slots

  • Search orders too

  • Copy Item Link

  • Portable Auction tool

  • Fix the 90% warning feature

  • Add "Favorited" or "Watched" listings

  • Email Notifications

  • Show avatar names on Orders

  • Re-think unreadable Market Histories

  • Split up Market History by planet

  • Time delay listings

  • Show items available in Shops

  • When not sold, make the Auction extendable

  • Auction Memberships

  • External API for Auction data

  • New search filters


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I don't think a lot of people realize how much removing auction fees would kill the market. Everyone would list literally everything they would normally TT, and if they decided they wanted the ped right away they would just cancel the auction and TT what they listed. A high percentage of things like thyroid/ pancreas oil are TTd at the moment, if the same people who want fast ped could just list it for free, you would see a lot of things like 99.9 ped of thyroid oil selling for 100 ped. A lot of the games economy is kept alive just because these people aren't able to get rid of things for cheaper % than the current prices without the auction fee making them lose more than if they sold to the trade terminal. The auction fee also gives a reason for people to hoard ped in the game so that they actually can sell what they get for markup. If this was coupled with allowing decimal places in auction, then the vast majority of stackables would be worthless. Big no from me on that one. If something is needed to help the new players out with auction, just make the fee go down more as the PED amount of the item decreases and allow decimals.

That is of course very true but the flip coin of that is a lot of things don't get listed at all simply due to the auction fees and the risk of not selling. Maybe the fees need some adjustments.
 
Next thing MA is gonna mess with is Auction so please vote.
 
Please vote, let's get this poll up to 100 votes!
 
Auction Interface will be overhauled in the near future, please vote on the features you would like
 
Well being in the transport business i support the idea of forced transport and very seperate planet economies and market history. The idea of portable auction is interesting but probably should be expensive to use so only usedn emergencies.
 
- option to search all planets' auctions at once
- price of auction needs to be tunable two places to the right of its TT value
- minimize fee to ameliorate the reality of market stagnation
- shop listings
 
Auction Overhaul is coming, vote for all your favorite features you think MA should work on
 
1. Allow decimals instead of the current 1 PED increment for Startbid and Buyout. It can be especially annoying when creating an auction for a stackable item to try to figure out what quantity to auction in order to get the desired Markup.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-not-being-able-to-choose-stackable-MU-freely

Would be nice to have, but it will reduce shop's advantages in setting fractions

2. Remove Auction fee to list: there would still be a fee when something sells. This would promote availability of rare, expensive items on the auction since listing them would cost nothing. As it is, listing an expensive unlimited weapon or amp can cost the seller 50 PED, with no guarantee of actually selling the item.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-not-being-able-to-choose-stackable-MU-freely
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?287967-My-Version-16-Wishlist

Unlikely. AH fee is one of MA's source of revenue. With current economy and lack of players (= lack of bids), I don't see it being favourable to MA

3. Create an 'Exchange' for mats & resources: Stackables could be handled in an exchange fashion where you add your quantity in and set a price. People buying can set how much they want to buy and their max price and it will buy that amount from the pool, starting with the cheapest and then up to your maximum, if available. That way there is no more need for undercutting wars, price fixing on small stacks, overbuying more than they need or overpaying by mistake. EVE Online comes to mind as an MMO which uses this type of system.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

Agree

4. Get rid of the 5 minute extension: Auctions would end at the time they are set to end and would no longer reset to 5 minutes with each bid. The idea is to solve the "let's spend the next 6 hours adding 1 ped to the price when there is less than a minute left", where one person is just hoping the other has to leave or drops connection so they can win the auction.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

No comment

5. Increased Auction slots: let everybody have a larger number of listing slots. 30 is just too limiting.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?298961-Wishlist-More-auction-slots!

No comment, since I've never set more than 30 items in AH

6. Search orders too: add a search function for 'Available Orders', rather then having to navigate the almost 700 pages of items to find the one you wish to place an order on.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

Could be a nice feature

7. Copy Item Link: make it possible to grab item links from the 'Available Orders' page.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

Agree

8. Portable Auction tool: add Portable Auction house tools just like the Portable TT and Portable Repair.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?302956-Give-auction-house-some-love
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

No comment

9. Fix the 90% warning feature: the 90% difference in markup warning needs to be fixed. Right now it pops up when it shouldn't and is completely pointless as it's not preventing people from listing 1000 AUD's for 70 PED total.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

No comment

10. Add "Favorited" or "Watched" listings: so you can quickly navigate to those Auctions you want to keep an eye on.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?284524-Watch-auction-item

Could be a nice feature

11. Email Notifications: add an option for external email notifications when you are outbid or win an auction so players get an alert if they want to when not logged in. This would be brilliant for MA because it's also a great way to get people to log in more often. They get the email and they log in to adjust their bid and while they are in there why not do a quick hunt?
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?306265-MAGA-Make-the-Auction-Great-Again

Agree

12. Show avatar names on Orders: some players would like to see who they are selling to on the auction. Allow people to see the names of those buying and allow them to choose who they sell to rather then the system deciding for them.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...ements-to-1-ped-(or-more)-instead-of-0-01-ped

Imo not very important, since most ppl sort by price/bo/bids/amount

13. Re-think unreadable Market Histories e.g. >999999%: it can be tricky to decipher what the actual sales have been when dealing with numbers in the hundreds of thousands of percent, for example Strongboxes and Fruits. Sure, traders will take the time and figure it out, but many new players are daunted and often end up having to ask someone to be sure.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?301715-Strongboxes-should-show-MU-in-TT

Agree

14. Split up Market History by planet: Damage Enhancers might sell for three hundred something percent on Caly, but what do they usually sell for on Ark or RT? It's not possible to tell with the current Market History graph.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?285543-Planet-specific-markup-information
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?287967-My-Version-16-Wishlist

Agree

15. Time delay listings: give the seller 5-10 minutes to cancel his listing before it goes live on the Auction House, in case he/she made a mistake, e.g. listing 10 CLDs for 1,920 PEDs instead of 19,200.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?287627-Make-orders-pay-the-offered-price
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?282300-Fixing-Auction

Make it 2 hours and when there's no bid yet. Seller also get their AH fee (or half) back

16. Show items available in Shops: add a section where all items available in shops are shown, along with price info and shop location. Make it searchable and user friendly. You'd still have to visit the shop to get the item.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?286403-Shops-malls-inventory-search-list
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...make-malls-and-players-shops-worthwhile-again
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?183282-Shop-directory
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?281035-New-retail-item-finder!
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?302956-Give-auction-house-some-love

Agree

17. When not sold, make the Auction extendable: extend your Auction 1 more week for a reduced fee (paramenters can't be changed if extended).
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?302956-Give-auction-house-some-love

Could be a nice feature

18. Auction Memberships, for example: Adj/Imp/Mod/Aug/Perf memberships, prices 50/100/200/500/1000 PED (yearly), reduced auction fees 10/20/30/40/50%, extra auction days (+1/2/3/4/5), extra auction slots(+5/10/15/20/25), etc...
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?302956-Give-auction-house-some-love

No comment

19. External API for Auction data: provide external API data via website so external auction apps & tools can be developed by third parties for the community.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?287967-My-Version-16-Wishlist

Agree

20. New search filters: e.g. SIB weapons, items with specific buffs, maxed weapons, DPS, efficiency, etc ...
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?282117-Extend-search-options-in-auction
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?301950-Search-by-DPS-interval-in-auction

Agree

I'd rather improve in-game shops/malls rather than AH. I couldn't agree more with #16
 
Thanks for the feedbacks Lefty and ihazbackup.

Anyone else care to provide feedbacks?
 
Still very much looking forward to this
 
Havent seen this thread before, there are some nice idea's, but there are wrong one's too.

Remove Auction fee to list items
Worst idea nr1.
AH would be full of scam post's for 100-1k-5k-10k plus than what it really worth because no penalty on posting extreme MU stuff, even now its quite often happens somebody just fall for it, or accidently bid too much, with this change, the AH would be full of this kind of sales.

Get rid of the 5 minute extension
Maybe shorten to 3 minutes, but extension is a must.

Increased Auction slots
I dont understand why is it not unlimited since start.
Posting something cost ped, its like loot system says to a hunter "you have lost 100p today already, you cant loose more ped for now, your return is set to 100% from now on".
Auction slot limits not makes sense to me.

Search orders too
Its partly existing, you just search on buy section and change to order than.

Copy Item Link
Its works, or if you mean to be able to copy item from available to order list, where from you cant atm, that would be great.

Portable Auction tool
Sure i would like to have it.

Add "Favorited" or "Watched" listings
Would be very usefull really.

I dont really care about the rest options if they happen or not, so no comment on them.
 
I vote other: One game, one auction.
 
Havent seen this thread before, there are some nice idea's, but there are wrong one's too.

Remove Auction fee to list items
Worst idea nr1.
AH would be full of scam post's for 100-1k-5k-10k plus than what it really worth because no penalty on posting extreme MU stuff, even now its quite often happens somebody just fall for it, or accidently bid too much, with this change, the AH would be full of this kind of sales.

Yeah these are not my ideas, as I explained in the first post, I went back a few years and tabulated everyone's ideas/suggestions on how to improve the auction system and made this poll based on that. I also don't agree with removing auction fees.

Increased Auction slots
I dont understand why is it not unlimited since start.
Posting something cost ped, its like loot system says to a hunter "you have lost 100p today already, you cant loose more ped for now, your return is set to 100% from now on".
Auction slot limits not makes sense to me.

I think the reason why auction slots are limited was to make shops more valuable. If a crafter consistently has hundreds of items to sell every week, then he/she would have to buy a shop because the auction will not be enough.

Search orders too
Its partly existing, you just search on buy section and change to order than.

That's not what is meant here, when you go to all available orders, you cannot search for something and have to manually browse the >600 pages to find it..

Copy Item Link
Its works, or if you mean to be able to copy item from available to order list, where from you cant atm, that would be great.

What is meant here is being able to copy item links from all available orders list of items..
 
Can all auction items be allowed to end before an auction version update. It is a lot more complicated than an attribute token trader after all. ;)
 
Can all auction items be allowed to end before an auction version update. It is a lot more complicated than an attribute token trader after all. ;)

I really don't see any other way. Also, I would expect there could be some functionality issues with the new auction upon release, shops could become very important for a short while there.
 
Almost 100 votes! Just need a few more :laugh:
 
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Who will cast Vote 100!?

Do you think MindArk will implent any of these recommendations in the upcoming Interface Update??
 
Bump - vote if you haven't
 
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