World Auction Houses

alright, auction houses are kinda self explanatory, but im gonna explain anyways. You go into a building, and there is one or a couple villagers there, named "Auctioneer." When interacted with, it would open a menu that says "Start an auction." or "bid on an auction." Start an auction would have you put in the item, and decide how much you want it to start at, the buyout, how long you want the auction to be, and the minimum amount between bids. bid on an auction would open a chest, that is full of items, saying if its identified, if it is, what stats it has, the starting bid, the current bid, the buyout, and the auction host. If you put something up for auction, and its not sold, you go back to any auctioneer, and they give it back to you, if it was sold, it would give you the emeralds when you talked to them. You can host 3 auctions at a time if you dont have a rank, 7 if you have vip, and 10 if you have vip+. Each auction can only hold one item, and you cant start a new auction if you havent claimed your items or emeralds. If someone tries to snipe an auction, (i.e. bid right at the end to try and secure it,) the auction is extended by 10 seconds. If you have any suggestions for this that i didnt think of, feel free to leave a comment.

 

This has been suggested before, and the same answer: NO.

 

Why? You havent specified why not.

 

Wait sorry I was thinking of houses.

Someone else do the criticism for this one.

 

I think this is sorta a good idea!! But again, it would leave the forum Trade Market a ghost town...

 

The auction house would get really spammy, imagine all the low levels auctioning thier leather armor and all the trolls auctioning mob drops.
The anti snipe would need to be longer than 10 seconds or it won't work.
If I bid on something does it take my money or does it take the money only when I win?

 

It would just be a huge pain (especially for the devs)

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Also, the forum would be better for selling items because the forum is usually people ages 13+, who have at least some sense of thriftiness.

 

this also decreases player encounters

 

you nerd that's what we have the trade market section for :D

 

No thank you... For reasons stated before.

 

How long would it need to be? because if its too long it inconveniences everybody, and if you bid on something, and you dont get it, you keep your money, like in real life. But you will have to have the money with you to bid.

 

Couldn't you use the already used AH idea of where you put a price and people either buy it at that price or not