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Offline Selling!
Mrbloodworth
Member Posts: 5,615
in Everquest II
Sassee: Many players continue to dislike the fact that you have to be online and in your house to sell items, especially if they live in a time zone in which server downtimes are especially inconvenient. Will there be any changes to the market system to address these issues?
Steve "Moorgard" Danuser: One of the key reasons we launched with an online-only selling system is that we didn't want to flood the marketplace with items and make the economy grow too rapidly. We still believe there needs to be careful control over how goods flow through the marketplace.
At the same time, we dont want crafters to feel like they have to sit in their house in order to earn a living, nor do we want players in non-US time zones to be especially inconvenienced by our vendor system. So in the coming updates, we're going to make some major changes that players should find appealing.
In phase one of these changes, you will be able to list items located in your house vault for sale on the market. This will give everyone more space to sell items, plus you will no longer need to clog up your personal inventory with stuff you want to sell. If you are online but not in your home, you will be able to leave your store open and the items in your house vault will still be up for sale. For instance, if you own a standard single-room apartment, you can buy containers and put them in your two house vault slots, then fill them with the goods you want to sell. Go out adventuring or crafting for the evening, and those items in your house vault will remain up for sale even though you aren't in your house.
Phase two is an even bigger change. If you are not online and you leave your store open, items in your house vault can still be purchased from the broker. That's right: we will be introducing offline selling.
You'll still need to remain online and in your home if you want to sell items from your character's personal inventory, but everyone will be able to maintain their store via their house vault regardless of whether they are online at the time. This will fulfill our goal of keeping the number of items in the marketplace under control while providing a lot more flexibility to our players.
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Steve "Moorgard" Danuser: One of the key reasons we launched with an online-only selling system is that we didn't want to flood the marketplace with items and make the economy grow too rapidly. We still believe there needs to be careful control over how goods flow through the marketplace.
At the same time, we dont want crafters to feel like they have to sit in their house in order to earn a living, nor do we want players in non-US time zones to be especially inconvenienced by our vendor system. So in the coming updates, we're going to make some major changes that players should find appealing.
In phase one of these changes, you will be able to list items located in your house vault for sale on the market. This will give everyone more space to sell items, plus you will no longer need to clog up your personal inventory with stuff you want to sell. If you are online but not in your home, you will be able to leave your store open and the items in your house vault will still be up for sale. For instance, if you own a standard single-room apartment, you can buy containers and put them in your two house vault slots, then fill them with the goods you want to sell. Go out adventuring or crafting for the evening, and those items in your house vault will remain up for sale even though you aren't in your house.
Phase two is an even bigger change. If you are not online and you leave your store open, items in your house vault can still be purchased from the broker. That's right: we will be introducing offline selling.
You'll still need to remain online and in your home if you want to sell items from your character's personal inventory, but everyone will be able to maintain their store via their house vault regardless of whether they are online at the time. This will fulfill our goal of keeping the number of items in the marketplace under control while providing a lot more flexibility to our players.
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Another awesome improvement.
horray! thanks SOE!
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Finally, I was getting so sick of leaving my computer on all night, and every morning my step dad would use the power switch to shut my computer off
What's with all these new features being added to the game constantly. I thought SOE didn't listen to their customers and only cared about stealing money from them. Why all of a sudden are they adding all the features that their customers want, and not even charging extra for them?!?!
I'm disappointed in you SOE. I came to this game under the impression that you were money hungry customer-haters, what gives?
And they are doing it right so it don't end up like SWG with 500 of the crappiest blaster for sale because of the inflated limits to how much you can see. They are natually controlling it by making you use your own container space. I am loving it.
Its seems to be christmas time alot around here these days...
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
Hey, if you don't subscribe to all acess they will still bend you over on content packs!
Give it a try, see how it feels. You might like it!
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
Can you give it a rest? Really, its been obvious for sometime with your single tracked harping about PvP in a game that clear cut said there would be none that you have an agenda.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
This is a wonderful development! Let's face it. The market is stymied right now. Nobody wants to spend their online time sitting in their room waiting for items to sell, and leaving the computer on all the time is just not an option for some. Limiting sell space to room vaults, or just limiting the number of items a character can have on the market at one time makes sense too. We won't have to page through 85,000 chipped shards of channeling, etc., which also keeps down the amount of space SOE has to allocate for the market.