The bog standard interface for wow auction was decent but Auctionator an add made searching much easier something like this would be even better

FFXI has a better AH than this. At least give us the option to search for items by slot. (e.g. head, chest, hands...etc.)

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Also, when I have navigated through 500 leg/hand/belt/chest slots to find 1 helmet because I can't search by slot, stop having my window disappear because my crew member comes back from a mission, meaning I have to go back in, set all the limited filters we have and scroll through all the bloody items all over again!!!!

 

Oh god, THIS!

 

GTN is awful right now. They NEED to fix this or the economy will never stabilize.

It seems like the most obvious need is a "slot" category which should go in immediately.

 

If that was there I could live with the rest but it is disappointing that with so many examples from other games out there this is the worst broker system I've ever seen.

 

I personally like the system in EQ2 better than WoW but either of them is much better than this one. Even EQ1's archaic system is better than this one - at least you can search for what you need with it.

 

It is possible that I'm wrong but I don't think the intent for green gear was to be vendor fodder equal to grey gear but with the searching the way it is everyone I know is just throwing it away on a vendor instead of even trying to sell it.

Search would be nice, but also would be nice "right click menu" on item with option "look for the prices" or something.

Bumping this since it went to page 3 since this morning - apparently we need more than a full page of threads about slicing nerfs.

 

This affects all tradeskillers. People who make things need a good system to sell/trade them. Lots of people enjoy playing the market in MMOs they play and in this game it just isn't fun.

I've honestly just avoided the GTN in general because it's such a pain in the *** to get to. Limiting it solely to the fleet just destroys its accessibility and makes it anything but "galactic". I'm not going to bother wasting the time to fly back to the fleet and post something when I can just vendor it or spam general to sell it and keep doing what I want and slicing for direct profit. Edited December 27, 2011 by Khadroth

Bioware please go look at WoW's AH and try to make it as easy to use as it is. Shift-click an item to search for it is a MUST.

 

WoW's AH was basically garbage until the Auctioneer add-on showed them how it was done. So if you're going to point them anywhere, they need to go pay attention to how Auctioneer's UI did things.

 

Even AoC had a better auction house then SWtOR.

 

Then there's the whole "2 day" limit on auctions, which I despise.

If they want crafting skills (rather than slicing) to be a legit source of income, they need to fix the AH. The fact that it's this bad at launch is shocking to me.

2 simple changes are all that's really needed:

 

1 - Make it so I can search by name without selecting any categories.

2 - Make it so I can search by slot.

 

The rest, you can add as you go. Those two? They needed to go in yesterday.

only problem i have for the auction house is that its impossible to sell fabrics.

cant even be searched.

 

for some reason fabrics come under treasure hunting mats in the GTN.

Yeah, the GTN gui needs some improvement, quite badly. There needs to be a way to search by name without putting in all the subcategories. Also you should be able to clear the price fully, i dislike how it auto sets it to 1. It should just not let you post without a price.

 

Those are the things I can think of off the top of my head, either way though, the GTN needs improvement.

Frankly, I don't see much use of the auction house.

 

Why would anyone try to sell something when you can buy equal or better gear from an NPC on every planet.

 

Why would you do missions for mats or farm mats to sell when you find soo many nodes... everywhere! There will never be a shortage of crafting mats. The prices will always be low.

 

I just went to a 47-50 planet as lvl 31 and checked the "slicing boxes" that litter the floor. 1300 gold every minute or so in profit. No mobs are guarding them. The gear you could buy with "commendations" sure makes it meaningless to buy anything up to lvl 50.

 

The feeling of accomplishment in this game has me severly underwhelmed. Am actually thinking about quitting since there is no sense of individuality. By doing slicing missions I get the same schematic 5 times. Everyone will have everything in the end.

Worst auction house since Everquest where you had to stay logged in and in a certain zone.

I would be fine with just an item name search, without having to fill out those damn [REQUIRED] slots. Half the time I don't know the category and sub-category of the item, just the name.

 

Quoted for truth!

Love how "go back to WoW" is everyone's argument to when a large part of the community wants something to be changed for the better. It has a better auction house and also the GTN is an AH. Deal with it

 

If there is no bidding, it is not an AH. It is a sales kiosk, much akin to the bazaar in EQ.

Also, when I have navigated through 500 leg/hand/belt/chest slots to find 1 helmet because I can't search by slot, stop having my window disappear because my crew member comes back from a mission, meaning I have to go back in, set all the limited filters we have and scroll through all the bloody items all over again!!!!

 

So true!!!

The windows management is the worst part of the UI - and that's saying a LOT!!!!

This "feature" has annoyed me countless times already.

If there was a simple search feature it would do wonders for the system. If they would just copy that other big mmos auction house system everything would be better.

Badly needs a shift/click item name only search. Stop with the required fields. PLEASE give us a useful GTN! This is horrible.

A more direct search interface woukld b a good improvement.Also would b nice if the crew skill window can remain open while u browse thru the gtn. Alsi linking items just does not work well

This has probably been said, but I don't have time to sift through 10 pages, so I will be brief and generally give my support:

 

Besides the lack of refined search tools, it is VERY frustrating that:

 

1. There are not GTN terminals in every major starport; thus making it less of an incentive for leveling players to purchase crafted goods.

 

2. The Neutral (Nar Shadda) and Imperial & Rebel GTN's are not linked.

 

These and other things work to make it unnecessarily more difficult for crafters to sell goods and pay for grinding.

please fix this. in other MMOs, i have always taken enjoyment in manipulating the economy. it is far too painful in this game to engage in such an endeavor. at the very least, have a search function, and the ability to shift click an item and see its related market data.

I agree the design of the GTN is absolutely appalling. It doesn't need to be fixed, it needs to be scrapped and redesigned from scratch. For a game that copied everything from WoW to the nth degree, it would have been nice if they copied WoW's auction house with the functionality provided by the Auctioneer mod.

 

Creating an interface that requires you to search through hundreds of items displayed with a tiny, illegible font only to be interrupted by your comps returning from missions and forcing you to go through the whole grueling process again shows a stunning lack of common sense on Bioware's part.

 

This never should have made it past the drawing board let alone through Beta and into the Release.