Guild Wars 2

Can we see a 3 month max per item auctioned? Having an unending supply of inactive auctions is a bane for a thriving economy. Everyone has access to dirt cheap items and what not, but there aren’t enough people actively buying to reduce the number of the majority of auctions necessary to play the market in any fun manner.

Maybe, put a limit on how many of a certain item can be posted as well, so the oldest auctions get pushed out; say 1000 for non-stackable items.

Also, how do servers come into play? Is the Trading Post per server or cross-server? The more servers per trading post the worse the stagnation will be. Maybe, make it 1 TP per X number of population, regardless of server.

First, your ideas have all been posted several times. You can search for the appropriate threads by using Google and putting “site:forum-en.guildwars2.com” after your search terms (remove the quotation marks).

Second, your ideas are all harm the economy and make everything worse for everyone. For explanations why, please use the search above and read the threads where the ideas were previously discussed at length.

To summarize though:

Time limits harm equilibrium pricing for slow moving markets and have no effect on fast markets.

Limiting the number of postings reduces trade volume which increases the rate of inflation.

The TP is currently game wide (excluding China which has its own economy). Limiting the TP to server or population levels allows people to easily manipulate the markets.