A more organised mass trading system is needed

[Superpiccolo]

I don't know if this has been suggested already, but I feel (and have felt for a while now) that their needs to be some more organised system implemented into Runescape of trading items.

 

 

 

The only place to go to for anyone who wishes to buy/sell any items on the free or the pay servers are dedicated locations in the main cities i.e. Fala, Varok, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now this is all well and good but it is quite disorganised and very hard to find anything unless you spend a long time spamming your selling/buying message over again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I know its not that bad as it is quite obviously still and effective way of trading but my point is that with all the wonderful improvements that this game has seen over the years I believe that the time for a more "organised" system of trading good in mass is now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now let me make this clear that what I am suggesting is not to change the way people trade items as such but the way that they advertise their mass "Wares" because as stated before the current situation is thousands of people in one location typing their message of "Buying blah blah" or "Selling blah blah".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One idea I have is that there could be a new city created or an addition to an existing City that has several buildings dedicated to specific items where people can post their buying selling message, similar to a Forum. . This way would make it easire for people to sift through people's offers in a much more organised fashion.

 

 

 

In addtion to this maybe this system could be attached to the bank to allow cross bank trading(or something. This is however just a basic idea.

 

 

 

I am also thinking that maybe with POH's (whenever they get here), that maybe they will have something like this with them..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, what is everyone's ideas/thoughts on this?

[jessy87]

forums are a soultion KIND of, but have u seen the official forums lately? omg its massively spammed and tons of threads created over and over. its like yours is washed away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and a market city would be different, i doubt itd happen. you just have to know where things are on world 2 fally and world 1 varrock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

phat, back near the weird peice of wall in fally. d bones ourside the bank on the west corner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

god armor in free worlds? back towards the castle ouside the bank, free world rareS? along the bank wall to the north near the god armors

[scougre]

if im correct i guess on rs boards:future updates ,they say poh's will come with your own shop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and yes this form of buying stuff is annoying cause , you can get ripped off very easly.

[Superpiccolo]

It is definately the case on the official fourms because EVERYONE who uses it wants their item to be seen so they continuously bump their topis as new ones come in every minute almost. It is ridiculous.

 

 

 

These fourms on tip.it are the MOST organised I have seen anywhere for a RS fourm. I'm not just saying that because im here, it is true.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is why I think someting similar to this system of fourm trade should be put in.

[metrakos2]

Yes, it's disorganized but in under 30 seconds I manage to sell my items if I undercut the competition a bit and theres a buyer around...

[Lionheart_0]

I support 100%! This could also be used to keep merchants inline, and try and keep steadier prices.

[killrdogs]

i think they should create a player shop where players can create their own shops like RO if u guys heard of it

[frogspoons]

i hope jagex do this eventually...

[Umega]

One of my ideas would be to have your market stall, put on your items you want to sell and give them a price. When a player wants to browse your stall he/she will just click on it and see any items on the stall as if he/she were browsing a shop. However the player would have to stay near his stall.

[moopymitchell182]

One of my ideas would be to have your market stall, put on your items you want to sell and give them a price. When a player wants to browse your stall he/she will just click on it and see any items on the stall as if he/she were browsing a shop. However the player would have to stay near his stall.

This would make it hard for merchants... thats cool. There would probably be a up-to-date data base of what everyones selling at that moment, and I'd have a search thing. Just type in what your selling and voila you have a big (or small) list of that specific item. I would hope there would be tabs (like those arrows on the world select page) where you could organize prices--or an A/W if they came out with something that useful--from least to largest, or largest to least. But going at Jagex's speed, this may take 10-20 years... :?

[fps_dave]

OMFG!!! OGRES PWN THE TRADING SYSTEM!!!!

[Superpiccolo]

Yes, it's disorganized but in under 30 seconds I manage to sell my items if I undercut the competition a bit and theres a buyer around...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I said before I do know that the current "System" (if you wan't to call it that) works, but the point is that with all the things that have been improved over the years with this game, something as fundamentally important to that game such as a more advanced mass trading system should have been implemented also. I just hope Jagex pull their finger out soon.

[benalator]

what? you do like a little haggling?