Guild Wars 2

Just an idea, and sorry if it’s been posted before.

But i was thinking along the lines of the trade mechanic in GW1 which could be integrated into the Trading Post in GW2.

How it could work is you search for an item you want (e.g. precursor) and present an offer to anyone selling it. So you may have been lucky enough to come across “Dawn” but you want “Dusk” instead. (or just replace those names with whatever precursor fits for your needs). Rather than having to sell “Dawn” on the TP (with all those hefty listing fee’s) you could simply drop your item into the “Offer” box and wait until someone accepts the trade.

If there is an issue with economy here, then simply add in a Traders Fee which both parties would have to pay. or perhaps refund part of the listing fee to the person that originally listed it.

Anyway, top and tail of it is that it would be nice to have this sort of function and you could even offer sellers a system where they could stipulate what items they are looking for in trade for their listed item. So for example:

I list: Dawn – I will accept either [x-amount]gold OR Dusk.

Then people could search the TP for players wanting “Dusk” and see what they are offering in Trade.

Now i understand that there will be people out there who will offer stupid things like 1 copper ore for Dusk. But it’s kinda the same as it is now anyway, I’ve seen offers of 5s for a precursor. So it’s not going to create any more problems than that.

What do you guys think?

i like the idea, it made me think of having a “lawn sale” option where you have a storage area say maybe 10 items (lawn) and you can fill it with items you would like to sell/trade and you list the price you want and people can check what you have and either purchace or trade with you. and instead of having it at the trading post maybe incorperate a new area for trading

Frozen Carnage.3427:

i like the idea, it made me think of having a “lawn sale” option where you have a storage area say maybe 10 items (lawn) and you can fill it with items you would like to sell/trade and you list the price you want and people can check what you have and either purchace or trade with you. and instead of having it at the trading post maybe incorperate a new area for trading

This is very much like a game i used to play called “Conquer Online” although in some instances it was good. the major downside to it was that you had to stay at your plot (and there were limited spaces) while you were selling. once you got up your sale was cancelled. That in turn made it very difficult to actually play the game because you spent most your time sitting in the trading area.

But with GW2 I prefer that you can just list an item and go about your day without having to worry about it or wasting any time. In essence your suggestion is a good one, but if you think about it… that’s kinda what we already have. although you can’t search for items by “player account” you can still list as many items as you wish on the TP and the cheapest seller gets the money.