Trade is getting insane

A lot of players seem to have issues with the trade site - Especially when it comes to currency. - It's bad enough when tons of players are AFK (Can we get AFK players items removed lol) or just not responding.

There is presently a single Fusing for sale for 300 Chaos - Clearly someone hoping to take advantage of someone else's makes a mistake.

There also seems to be a lot of price fixing and flipping of low cost items.

Some items just never go on trade which can be frustrating.

I think trade needs a complete reworking - Too many games get it wrong.

The Vendor system you have should be altered to allow trade through the NPC's.

Player trades items to NPC's - Set values that change as supply and demand quotas are met. - This IMO would keep prices down as players flood the market with high priced items. - Yes lowering prices would deter a few min maxers to not trade their items. I don't "think" that would impact the economy much.

It would cripple any 3rd party trading as all trading goes through NPCs.
It would eliminate scamming
It would eliminate the AFK problem
It would eliminate Price fixing (Okay maybe not completely but it makes it harder.)
It would be faster for all parties.

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Keelmore wrote:

A lot of players seem to have issues with the trade site - Especially when it comes to currency.

Wait, you want to trade currency in 3.25 via the trade side? You can not be serious! Google Faustus my friend. ^^

Already know about Faustus (League dependant - Hope he stays) - He is only about 1/3rd of the way toward what I suggested. Slightly higher than regular Vendor - Which is better than no Faustus

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666lol666 wrote:

Wait, you want to trade currency in 3.25 via the trade side? You can not be serious! Google Faustus my friend. ^^

I have, he is quite profitable. You buy from Faustus and sell on trade site, huge profit can be made in some scenarios.
In others, you buy from trade and sell to Faustus.
My issue is that there are two trade markets running in parallel, so if you ever want to buy anything you have to check both.

IMO it should be one or the other, anything that can be done through faustuc should be disabled in trade.
Thoughts?

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Jixa87 wrote:

IMO it should be one or the other, anything that can be done through faustuc should be disabled in trade.
Thoughts?

Disagree, two reasons:

1) having an option of getting your hand on currency without having gold seems like an important safeguard.

Imagine running out of regret orbs and gold and for whatever reason accidentally leaving your (only) char in a bricked state (EB+CI, lacking attributes, etc).

3) With the trade API being public poe.ninja and other services can scrape it to offer prices, so unless they make Faustus a public-facing API we would lose Wealthy Exile and other services.