Market Stalls -- Player-Owned Shops

Please do not flame me or exclaim that this was discussed a thousand times once before. I'm just adding my own personel input on a feature to Runescape that I believe would be great in a sense. I know that POH's are coming out in the future but this feature isn't really based around them but on something uniquly different. Here's my try on this suggestion, I hope you agree in some term:

Imagine a marketplace/flea market kind of environment with an ample amount of stalls located in every nook and corner of an outdoor area. There is a fence or some sort of wall/barrier surrounding this enclourse to where there is an enterance or two by going in and out of a building. In this marketplace, players of Runescape can have the ability to rent a stall for a sum of money to sell goods, get rid of "junk" they don't need from their bank by selling it, or for any other purpose that involves the process of selling something. Then buyers can walk throughout this marketplace, browsing stalls, and buying what they wish. This is just a small, undetailed summary of this feature -- Player-Owned Shops, or market stalls.

Let's just use the forest west of Lumbridge as an example for the rest of my suggestion. This being that this forest is sprend-out and vast, in which an area similar to that would be needed to suit such a feature. This could be the #1 problem, however, with this feature besides the stalls being filled and having to switch worlds to find a less-filled area.

For the basic seller, they would come to the markeplace with at least 27 items they wish to sell (able to be noted in which buyers will pick the amount they want from the noted item) and the money needed to rent a stall. Renting a stall can range from 1k to 5k, or beyond, meaning that in some cases, you'd have to ask yourself how much money you'll be making from renting a stall and selling what you have to offer. Once you enter the main building, or enterance into the marketplace, you can talk to the owner inside to see if there's any stalls inside to rent, and then rent them if any is avaiable. The number of items you can show at once in your shop window depends on how much you spent on the stall you're renting.

Once you have rented a stall, you're teleported to an avaiable one and a shop window appears, similar to any shop window or even the bank deposit window in Runescape. You can then drag-and-drop the item you wish to sell into place on the shop window from your inventory (or pick x amount to sell), set a price for that item each, and then continue doing the same for the rest of your items until your shop window space is full. This, again, is based upon how much you rented the stall for. You can then name your stall and open it to the public. Once you wish to leave, you must close your shop to the public and hit the 'x' button on the shop window. That stall will then become avaiable for future sellers. If you're selling anything and you log out, your shop will close automatically and that stall will be avaiable to any sellers.

Also for sellers, there is a flood control of every ten or twenty seconds that they may speak outloud to the public. This will prevent a lot of, "Selling cheap fish over here!", every second. This will not take affect for pming, however. Also if you have split-chat on, it will be visable during the selling process being that it is not possible to sell the amount of items to reach the bottom of the screen.

For buyers coming into the marketplace, all you need is money, this being for buying what you want. There is no admission fee. Enter the main building (a.k.a. enterance) and walk through it's other door into the marketplace. Then you may browse through the seller's stalls by clicking on a stall currently occupied and selecting "Browse Stall - Name of Stall". If selected, this will then bring you over to the seller's stall, opening their shop window with goods on it. Then you may get what you need at that stall, or close the shop window and continuing browsing other stalls. There is no flood control for buyers.

This is just the outline of my suggestion. I hope you at least agree with it in a way. Please comment, offer a change or addition, etc.

Have a good day.

Pretty good idea. Make a Wal-Mart of sorts on RS? lol

A way to reduce the crowding that would undoubtedly occur would be to organize the shops by what they're selling, much like forums do.

Yes, I like that idea too. I was thinking of a category type of system to have too in which you'd pick from a menu before you'd open the shop and select what you're mostly selling, fletching items, magic (runes), etc. but in your case, that wouldn't work. You'd have to pick a category before being teleported to your stall. But if those stalls were full in that category, then we'd have a problem. But an idea with a category would be a great addition to this feature.

Thanks for the comment.

Yeah, actually the option of picking what kind of stall you wanted to open would work better. And then when people entered the market they'd choose what they were looking for.

Well, I was thinking of when you ask to owner of the marketplace if there's any avaiable stalls that you're given a map of the marketplace and you're able to pick the stall you wish to rent. An avaiable stall would be blinking and you'd click on it and choose "Rent stall". Once you click this and choose to rent the stall, that stall won't be avaiable until you either cancel or close your shop and leave.

Also I was thinking that this feature may cut back on the sellers and buyers in banks. Hopefully...

Sorry to double post but just for the curious reason I'd like to know if anybody else likes this suggestion.

Now if Jagex, for the POH's, had a feature where you can put your house in a category, as in "shop", "party house", "farm", etc., and then from that point on your house would only serve as that purpose unless maybe you paid a certain amount to change the category. Maybe if they did that and you chose "shop", then you would get the whole shop window feature as in what I suggested. Then maybe they wouldn't need the marketplace.

Or they could have both. Marketplace could be used for ones with no money (at least not a high sum) or carpentry skill to build a shop. And then when your carpentry skill is high enough and you have the money, you can build your own shop through the POH system and leave the marketplace for good unless you want to gain attention in your goods by going there.

didn't read the whole posts im very tired but it should also solve the problem that people who wanna trade with another player but not in at the same time(maybe one lives +2 other -8 time zones) ...

Shouting out what your selling is easier for the seller and buyer so they dont have to walk around looking at the different stalls.

I dont like the idea really,its just a complicated way of buy things or selling. Thats what forums are for.

i like stalls...

especially if you could teal from em :)

Great idea, stalls would be a solution to bank junk. I'm wondering why Jagex don't do this rather than the POHs - there will be lots of houses on the worlds, even if there is a designated area! It might get very crowded.

:D Come on Jagex, make some market stalls for players! :D

Thanks for the comments.

To uk_swat: Of course you can still go to a bank and sell items the current way but some people, including myself, have a hard time doing this because of the congestion in the chat window. Plus using internet forums can also be tedious just for the fact that, like Fin_gangsta0 said, you may live in two different time zones or you guys cannot play at the same time to be able to trade with one another. Plus besides having to be bothered going on a forum, you can just walk over to the marketplace (or tele nearby) and search for what you want. Also like what Zerocool11 suggested, the feature could have a category system where maybe you'd make your shop a certain category. Now if it's a mix of items, you can put it under the cateory "various items" or "bank sale". Or maybe have the shop, when you scroll your mouse over it, appear a certain color so that you can identify what type of category that stall is in.

And no, you cannot steal from other player's stalls, but I do believe you were being sarcastic.

Have a good one.

it would be hard to keep your shop in business because of the excessive demand for stock

These aren't meant to be a permanent shop and could work alongside future POH's as I stated furthur down from the first topic.

I can't clearly think right now because I wrote two essays within six hours so please mind me. But thanks for the response nevertheless.

yeah great idea but just a thought and i bet that you guys are going to hate it but anyways you set the price that you are going to sell something at so you can go do something else while that stuff is selling or would just have to stay at the shop?? also maybe you could do the same with selling say you want to buy something just put how much you want to buy and how much you want to buy it for so you don't have to type it millions of times trying to tell everyone.