Even more use for the Trade Market

In the endgame, trading (mostly mythics or godly rolls) is important to advance. The TM allows us to trade with other players anomously. However, you can only pay in raw emeralds and there is a market tax of 5%.
This certainly decreases the possibilities of trading in general.

I am therefore suggesting 3 new trade market (TM) features.

1) Delayed private trades

Sometimes, the problems occurs, that two players who want to trade do not have matching timezones and can therefore not meet online. I suggest adding a feature to the TM, where you can complete a trade, which you negotiated before, without having to meet. The GUI would be the same as for a normal live trade.

Let me illustrate this using an example:

Let's say Player A wants to trade a white horse with Player B, who will give 1 stx and a chestnut horse for that.
One of the Players (let's say A) now sets up a trade. They insert Player B's username. They put a white horse into the trading slots and press the checkmark once (so it becomes yellow).
When Player B logs on, they will receive a notification saying "Player A started a trade with you." At any trade market, he could then open the trade in the View Your Trades menu and put in his chestnut horse and 1 stx in and press his checkmark twice (so it becomes green).
When Player A logs on again, they receive another notification and they can press their checkmark for a second time to complete the trade.
Player B can claim his white horse once they logs back on.
Of course, both players could also cancel the trade anytime before it is completed.


2) Negotiable trades on TM

This one is for the following case. You see the item with the perfect stats for you, however, you prefer trading rather than paying raw or you think the price is too high.
I think, there should be an option to offer something on an item. The best solution would be to add an option to enable this manually. So when you set up a trade, you can toggle (default off) whether offers can be made. It could even be possible to not set a fixed selling price, but instead only accept offers. There could also be a toggleable option, whether the your username should be displayed on offering. You would basically message the seller when offering, but on TM.
There would be a filter for these items, too. This would make negotiating much easier and enable better trading.

3) Auctions on TM

Now this one is tricky. Auctions on forums do exist, however not that many people actively use them. I suggest adding an auctionhouse, which would be accessible via TM. There, you could offer an item and do the setup: starting bid, min inc, buyout, enddate and also anti-snipe. Just like explained in 2), you could message the owner of the item.
After the auction ended, the current high bidder will automatically pay the amount they bid and get the item. Same goes with buyout, but this would obviously work instant.


TL;DR
Add these features:
1) delayed trading (just like normal trading, but not in real-time)
2) ability to offer on an item listed on TM
3) auctions like in the forums, but on TM


That's it. Criticism appreciated.

 

I think these ideas are good, but they shouldn't be a part of the trade market, they should be their own things (except 2). The trade market is overburdened as is doing just stackable and nonstackables (which really should be separated like at launch), I don't think adding new features to it is a great idea. For 1, that would better fit in with a mail system and 3 should really just be its own Auction house NPC since an auction functions extremely differently compared to a simple sale.

 

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