So today I bought a Masterwork German Greatsword for 75k. After talking to the owner of it and seeing how he messed up (he forgot to put he wanted a +3 Danish with 75k, thus listing the sword for 75k), and giving it back to him, I devised something that could help prevent this, and help people from screwing themselves over with their own mistake.
It is just a concept thing I made very poorly in MS paint, but you should be able to get the idea of where I am going with this idea. This will replace the "Are you sure you want to put this item on the market" box before submitting, to a more detailed overview of what you are actually asking for.
Here are some of the things I think a box like this should include, and what I am trying to suggest in more detail.
- It shows you the item you are offering, as well as the heirloom level next to it, just to ensure the user that they are putting up the item they truly intended to list on the marketplace.
- It shows them what item that are requesting, as well as the heirloom level so they know they clicked on the correct modifier for the heirloom level they want (can be left blank if they are only asking for gold), and also show the sum of gold they are asking for (can also be blank if it is a straight item to item trade)
- It has a confirmation box on the bottom, that they must check in order to be able to press the ok button before submitting it on the market. This ensures that they do not accidentally click ok for any reason, when left unchecked the only button they will be able to press is cancel
_________________________________________________________________________________Another idea I have had is for offers on the market place to expire.
Some of that stuff has been up there for ages, as well as items that the owner may possibly not posses anymore (still a problem if you want to trade your item, then trade that item for another item only to find out that the second trade you are about to do is no longer valid, thus leaving you stuck with an item you never originally wanted in the first place).
I can leave it up to the dev team to decide what time limit would be appropriate. For example if nobody accepts your offer within 5 days, it will be pruned by the system, you can always just resubmit the offer if you still want to go for it.
Another benefit of this is for people with older computers. The marketplace lags older machines horribly, and can even crash browsers sometimes. As someone who has just recently upgraded to a new machine, and has experienced browser crashing from the marketplace locking it up, something like this would be a godsend to some people so the market is not overloaded with garbage trades that just clutter the place up.
_________________________________________________________________________________One last feature I would like to see on the marketplace, and maybe even have its own section (or optionally a check box to hide/show it like with the non heirloomed items), would be a place to submit either more than one item, or an item you own + gold, or even just gold offers for an item you want, so if someone wants to sell something and not wait for someone to come along and buy it, they can find a buyer to sell it too quicker than before. Although I personally think that the person who submitted the request for the item would have to also accept the offer one last time at the end just in case he/she had some second thoughts on the matter, or just simply does not need/want the item anymore (seller sees a buyer, clicks accept, buyer gets something in their inbox saying someone wants to sell them the item/items, and they confirm it one last time, the seller should also be able to retract their offer if they change their minds.
_________________________________________________________________________________I know this would probably take a bit of work to get this all done, and I know it may take some time. I think the first thing I suggested is the most important though, the others can wait. I also encourage users to post ideas they have, or even improvements to my ideas. I think the marketplace is open to many holes and they need to be fixed asap (such as the heirlooming an item and it stays on the market at the new loom level, it should be automatically removed when doing so).
