Let's talk about the Galactic Trade Network

GTN is neither fine nor garbage. Comon people, features you request are partialy only in the last expansion of WoW.

The real baddest sing: you can not search for a name directly. That simply fact would improve that alot. We dont realy need a GTN that memorized sellpricec and other fancy stuffs.

Don't really have anything to add that hasn't already been mentioned. Just wanted to voice my agreement with the thread. I can say that with the market in its current form though I think I've only used it about 5 or 6 times. Here's hoping for a sooner rather than later update!

Considering the poor UI controls, I was not shocked at how poorly designed the GC interface was designed. The game is fun enough, it looks great but it is clear that this is BWs first MMO. They have a lot to learn and fix up in the coming months, they really need to hire some experienced MMO developers to give them some tips.

And while you are at it, put GTN's back on every planet. It's a pain in the butt to have to run to Coruscant or the space station to put something on the auction house.

I imagine it would cause people to use the GTN less and thus cause the supply to suffer.

Dunno what all the whine is all about, I do not myself sit at the AH 24/7 so I might not have been having your experiences, but I have no issues at all with the AH in this game. Nothing is as bad as you all mention it to be :s

you know, if we had addons... oops, forgot addons are evil.

I've said it before and i'll say it again, just copy the UI from WOW auction house. Its perfect and far far better than the GTN.

True, it's very basic. For whatever reason it was implemented as it currently is, it's where we are at the moment with the GTN. This thread is what they can improve.

yeah, and most of that functionality we had for 2 xpacs before through mods and blizzard finally pulled their heads out of there behinds to give us what we should have had for a long time. even then auctionator was still virtually a requirement if you were a heavy ah user.

@op the gtn is in need of work, and bioware knows and has already stated that they have plans in place and it is coming. i understand your frustration, and even agree with pretty much your entire list, but give it some time. it takes awhile to produce everything, and there is a ton of stuff left to be done.

what would also be nice to have, is the ability to narrow down our searches for item attributes,

say I'm searching a shield that has a willpower bonus of 30 or greater.
I want to be able to say search shields, chose willpower from a pull down menu as refining option and input a value of 30 to exclude anything below that.