Suggestion: Make pills and shrapnel auctionable

[Evey]

With pills not entering the game via daily missions as well and players not really using all of them, it would be a nice little boost if players could sell these via auction. Long overdue and needed game change, you can do it, MA!

 

[Deleted member 74680]

With pills not entering the game via daily missions as well and players not really using all of them, it would be a nice little boost if players could sell these via auction. Long overdue and needed game change, you can do it, MA!

Can but will not.

 

[Evey]

4.8 million USD worth of Shrapnel has been sold through auction in about 2 years.
Micro transactions is a topic MA likes to bring up when they talk about the game.
Why not add all the pills, pets and whatever else is tradable but not auctionable? Would considerably boost both the micro transactions number and the economy since everyone has pills for sale or is using them while crafting, mining and hunting...

 

[Deleted member 74680]

4.8 million USD worth of Shrapnel has been sold through auction in about 2 years.
Micro transactions is a topic MA likes to bring up when they talk about the game.
Why not add all the pills, pets and whatever else is tradable but not auctionable? Would considerably boost both the micro transactions number and the economy since everyone has pills for sale or is using them while crafting, mining and hunting...

Seem's like they dont give a F atm.

Edit: Or they are affraid of people buying less strongboxes?

 

[James Jimbo Linehan]

4.8 million USD worth of Shrapnel has been sold through auction in about 2 years.
Micro transactions is a topic MA likes to bring up when they talk about the game.
Why not add all the pills, pets and whatever else is tradable but not auctionable? Would considerably boost both the micro transactions number and the economy since everyone has pills for sale or is using them while crafting, mining and hunting...

I have a shop but don't want to think I'm biased because of it. Honestly I don't even know why I got it lol I don't craft like that and could give 2 shits but anyways. Point being is pills basically is last thing that gets people going to shops now and they'll look around see amps and other crap and buy then or in the future now that they know you got it etc. So I'd say shrapnel definitely good idea for auction and even pets but pills I'd say it'd be better to leave off AH at least for the time being or else shops will tank to nothing along with everything else. Plus it's good for resellers (which I am not 1) but as much as I hate most of them we do need the good ones for liquidity in this game. Once MA makes new 90% EFF gun blueprints and fixes space loot where people are buying limited amps + other items again then maybe add pills on AH?

 

[Theocles]

The surplus of pills available now between daily missions and so many pulling them from vendor with mtokens, would make more sense to have them being sold on auction as well, more people could justify running them.

I think most of the pill resellers would despise this though. I personally would enjoy it, just one stop at auction and get everything you need.

 

[James Jimbo Linehan]

The surplus of pills available now between daily missions and so many pulling them from vendor with mtokens, would make more sense to have them being sold on auction as well, more people could justify running them.

I think most of the pill resellers would despise this though. I personally would enjoy it, just one stop at auction and get everything you need.

It could work like shrapnel where it raised the price n people used it more so might be good... I just figured with how greedy MA has been lately that if they are not taking the auction fees for pills so they must really see it being needed to keep shops alive lol. Or maybe it's just cuz they don't know how to code it, who knows anymore

 

[Evey]

Seem's like they dont give a F atm.

Edit: Or they are affraid of people buying less strongboxes?

People would open more boxes, since they would have consistent sellable markup. Atm players burry their pills in storage, maybe using them or no, or, throwing them at resellers at big loss insead f getting more out of their boxes and lay longer with their peds.

 

[Deleted member 74680]

People would open more boxes, since they would have consistent sellable markup. Atm players burry their pills in storage, maybe using them or no, or, throwing them at resellers at big loss insead f getting more out of their boxes and lay longer with their peds.

Aye, just was wondering out loud why MA does nothing regarding them.

 

[Tah]

With pills not entering the game via daily missions as well and players not really using all of them, it would be a nice little boost if players could sell these via auction. Long overdue and needed game change, you can do it, MA!

The surplus of pills available now between daily missions and so many pulling them from vendor with mtokens, would make more sense to have them being sold on auction as well, more people could justify running them.

I think most of the pill resellers would despise this though. I personally would enjoy it, just one stop at auction and get everything you need.

Being a low lvl hunter myself, I agree. I got the pills few times from the 3 newbie daily AI quests, and I'm aware using them myself rn is a waste, so I want to sell them. But I have to check price threads on forum, where people post different prices, to in the end only be offered 1/10th of that by Twin Peaks resellers, so instead I just store them.
If pills were on AH, I would know where I stand and could negotiate the price properly.

 

[Evey]

Being a low lvl hunter myself, I agree. I got the pills few times from the 3 newbie daily AI quests, and I'm aware using them myself rn is a waste, so I want to sell them. But I have to check price threads on forum, where people post different prices, to in the end only be offered 1/10th of that by Twin Peaks resellers, so instead I just store them.
If pills were on AH, I would know where I stand and could negotiate the price properly.

This is a huge QoL for new players and it's every new player's story, where the game suffers the most, on retention of new players. It's things like this that make it hard for players to stay when they are thrown in the arms of twin peaks resellers ....

@Socrates|Mindark @Ludvig|MindArk

 

[xXx Ultimate xX]

As a player who doesn't have a huge bankroll to begin with, I'd love to see pills added to the AH.

I always go boxes, because the illusion of a ring is something I can't ignore (yes , i know they're rare & i'm daft but we move).

It's tricky for players to know who's going to pay a sensible price, & the re-sellers who spam certain trade chats that will more than likely get the newbies & pay them pence on the pound as mentioned by Eve above.

This change is well over-due, and would help a-lot with retention, as we can depo - AH our pills - Go cycle our PEDs. Not spend hours filtering out who's going to pay a half-decent price for things when the games hard enough to sustain for the majority.

Just my two pence,

Thanks for reading.

Ulti

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

Yes please! And as in the edit, pets too!

Also my opallos. I heard everything from TT to +200 so now they just sit in my storage instead.

 

[Evey]

Maybe with these upcoming changes the mayhem vendor pills could also be made auctionable, along with pets and whatever tradable but unauctionable items?

 

[Xen]

I think anything auctionable creates downward pressure on price.

 

[SoberPhil]

I think anything auctionable creates downward pressure on price.

At the same time anything with no official auction history creates more room for price manipulation, just to put it mildly here.

 

[Sub-Zero]

At the same time anything with no official auction history creates more room for price manipulation, just to put it mildly here.

Problem is undercutting and there's also market manipulation risk too on auction.

Say someone is buying pills in bulk and because people undercut a lot each other because lack of patience price will inevitably go down.

Let's say hyperstims (currently 3 ped each or so) goes down to 2.5 ped each.
Now that's usually the bulk price currently. But if auction history saying 2.5 ped each then the buyer can just say well I won't pay auction price so 2.3 ped each for bulk and so on.

There's also orders which someone may make mistake and sell too cheap that further changes the "current mu".

Not to mention people actively trying to manipulate the price. There's risk involved if it's on auction and of course if it's not. Resellers pay bulk price then sell for more on shops.

One thing that is guaranteed though is that the pills will go down in price if it's put on auction but it will be easier to sell (especially if you undercut others) and cheaper to buy. Shop owners could be negatively affected by it a lot too.