Well it still doesn’t make sense to me you’re saying there are a lot of issues coming with it and then you only say it makes people interacting with each other less (and let’s be real having less chats about where& when to meet won’t make people miss social interaction 🤣)

Like it could legit work the same way lending trades work, you get notification in game when trade has been done and bye bye

So please enlighten me on how many more complications this feature would raise. Also you’re saying this is trade moderator’s job to force trade ? Why do you make it sound like it’s not a good idea to relieve them of some of their tasks ?

Edited September 12Sep 12 by Magikarpsh

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+1 sorry wrote twice

Edited October 22Oct 22 by Tantankare67

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+1 for first point
-1 for the second point, because one player might have multiple accounts, with their pokedollars scattered across them. They might also transfer their pokedollars to their friends for safekeeping. These are definitely possible scenarios(I’m an example myself)

+1 embedded tranfer responsability clarification

-1 automatic ressource checking/managment. Simple yet hard

1. you cannot check easily for invertory content and alts too. Say you allow oran berry as 1m. If i bid on an item with 4m and i got 1m and 1 oran berry each on 2 accounts, im allowed to do so but i couldnt with a dummy money reader (even private). U could technically also buy a shared poke with multual resources of a person/group u trust.

2. Money can change over time too, say i plan to do bosses tomorrow i know i will have 500k more then even if i cant do bosses today. Expect a payment for a done service.

3. Along with the above point, do you plan on temporarily "holding" on people money until the auction is over ?

4. What happens if buyer or seller gets banned after auction is over ? If u want to go to second best offer u should have with 3 also frozen his resources. So everybody's resources are locked until auction is over ?

The most reasonnable and logical evolution i see to this proposition is a set in stone fully automatic trading house system that enables item list as valuables defined by seller with prices (removes/freeze all inventories during trades) the calculates prices automatically, then completes trades automatically too, as u cannot let players trade these resources themselves "unsafely" if it isnt enforced in an automated and locked manner by the game. So removing players meeting each others too as a social aspect. Social aspect is very important in a MMO life imo, it's also a reminder that everybody has constraints and are real people from everywhere on the planet.

Auction is also a terrible trade system too

1. it doesn't requires seller to think of a price

2. Or they set normal price at starting price then can greedily push maybe tiny more but has everyone wait for auction timer. Having auction now as default way of selling compared to shops before just make trades slower.

3. Auctions also promote bad manners in that buyers should be sniping auction end to pay less and not engage in price competition before then. So you gotta setup an alarm clock irl for 15 min rule in PRO and be available for an hour or more maybe of 15min extensions regardless or night, job or whatever.

4. Forum shops were cool to as the seller had to put some thoughts in the organization and decoration of their shops, thus giving more personnality that just a boring price list page.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Atoums