Galactic Trade Network (Auction House) Suggestions

Bumping because I agree. Also, the fee to list seems a little high. I priced something at 2k credits for 2 days and paid 300 credits for that. Seems a bit excessive, but I can live with it if some of these suggestions are implemented.

totally agree with that!

Please BW update your AH asap

Yea this 50 item limit thing is bullcrap




I have 3 gathering professions and am level 35



I was planning on putting my massive amounts of materials on the GTN right before launch day.....imagine my surprise when I can't even put 1/10 of my stuff on...

/signed

yea love the game but this needs work

An intern working for one month would've come up with a significantly superior UI. Hell, with zero training and after looking at a few articles on xml coding, I came up with a decently workable UI for EQ years ago. I'm astounded they thought the UI was so unimportant that they didn't bother putting a tiny amount of effort into it.

Another request: When you put an item in the sale window, it should display all auctions currently posted for that item. Having to look up the going market price on an item before selling it is needlessly timing consuming, especially when we can't just shift+click the item into a search field. Getting a random trade good from a mission skill, and having to go through a bunch of categories or look on torhead to see what it's actually categorized as is also VERY annoying.

Reposting from my other post, mostly same stuff

Lets talk Galactic Kiosk.

Disclaimer:
From now on in this post I will assume that convenience is the ultimate goal of any search interface. That there is no hidden important game element hidden in messed up search experience. We will also assume that a simple and effective search interface is slightly less complicated then starship so there is no logical problem with game having it.

Ok so as it stands right now whole trading experience is well… how to put it lightly … lacking. Lets get to issues shell we?

1) Required fields.
These have to go, period. They create 2 major issues:
a) You have to know type of the item to find, in case of mats it is FAR from obvious in some cases. I need shadowsilk, I don’t care what type of item it is, just find it. Top that of with misclassified items and you have yourself a problem, huge one.
b) Even if you do know the type and it is not messed up, it still adds 3-4 extra clicks. This slows down search drastically. There is a reason Google is #1 in search world… Bottom line this is 100% not needed, slows down experience is prone to tons of bugs and over all frustration from setting wrong category.


2) Minimum price of 1. This drives me through a wall. To those who haven’t tried it yet. As of right now if you try to clear item price it reduces it to 1 instead of clearing the field. So if lets say you want to post item for 500, you have to do following. Clear field type 500 get 5001 then go the end and delete 1. I mean OM#G is that for real?

3) Lack of ability to post item name into search box. I am trying to sell XXX, first thing I need to do is check the current price. But before I can do that I have to pass a typing test and no mess up the item name. Or maybe I did mess up and now I think there is no such items on market… Convenience is key, this is STAPLE ability.

4) No ability to sell in stacks. Not like you didn’t take >50% of the features from WoW, please take their auction house. Being able to set size of stacks and # of stacks is amazing.

5) This brings us to next point. For the love of god remember the item price, if I am posting more then 1 of the same item, guess what 99.9% chase I want to post them for the same price. So if I just posted XXX for 100, and making another sale for XXX remember the price I set.

Next 3 issues are not actually market issues but they are related since they are part of whole working market experience.



6) Splitting sucks, it is inconvenient hard to figure out and take few extra clicks. Improve it, especially since you don’t have option of stack selling on market.

7) This is another one that drives me through a wall. There is no way to consolidate stacks automatically. Here is what I am talking about. As I ran out of space in the bag due to 2-3 tiers of mats accumulating in my bag I dump them into bank (since companions can use mats out of the bank, great feature fyi) Anyway a day later I found that I ran out of space in the bank… Why? Because as it turned out to be it has 2-7 stacks of each item. So I dump 5 fragments now and 5 fragments in an hour I end up with 2 stacks of 5 in the bank. Now that my bank is full I have to play mahjongg and I DON’T LIKE THAT GAME, MMK? I don’t want to sit for 10 min looking at my bank trying to find 2 of the same items are we clear on that?


Added several more gathered from responces:

8) Actions are caped at 50… What????????????????????????????????

9) Sort by price sorts by total price not item price.

Something tells me this is not a full list of problems, and there are more. So please if anyone ran into more issues post them I will add them.

GALACTIC TRADE NEEDS THE FOLLOWING FIXED!!!

My 2 biggest issues with the current Galactic Trade Network are:

1) Items listed on planets are only available on those planets. It is called Galactic Trade Network... make items in the entire system available from ALL PLANETS/FLEETS/ETC... (i.e. you list an item for sale in Nar Shaddaa it is only available to players on Nar Shaddaa, please fix).

2) PUT THE TERMINALS AT EVERY STARPORT ENTERANCES. Since the map doesn't always work correctly, make them EASY to find. A little consistency is all I ask. And make sure all planets have terminals.


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Oh yeah, integrated "Price per item" display would be very nice to have for stacked items. Sometimes my brain is working well enough for quick head math with big numbers, and getting a calculator is a PITA :-p