Auction House

[Atrane]

A long requested feature for the game has been an Auction House for players to able to exchange items without needing to meet face to face. Currently the meta for trading is to find someone selling an item on discord and then meet them at the train or toad arc. It hardly provides any true player interaction besides initially setting up the trade outside of the game and then meeting up.

Now, an auction house would make this process simpler but I can understand that it takes some of the RP out of the game. There could be some trade offs in order to make this a convenient alternative, such as:

• Ryo tax on items listed. There could be a % tax for using the auction houses services and whoever lists the item would pay it. For example, someone lists an item for 1000 and the auction house has a 30% tax, the seller would receive 700 ryo after their item is bought.
  • This tax would be another way of removing ryo from the economy and controlling inflation, while also providing some cost of using the benefits of the auction house.
     
• The auction house should be somewhere within the world similar to a bounty house and would require players to travel back and forth in order to make purchases or to collect ryo from sales.
  • If someone sells things on the auction house, they could receive mail informing them that they have ryo to collect. Similarly, items purchased could be mailed to the player. It might be easier to just have the mail system send both the ryo and items but I think it would be cooler to need to travel.
  • This change would help to encourage players to move throughout the world.

Overall a change could take some time to implement but I think it would be healthy for the games economy while also giving another way to encourage activity in the actual game.

[Seifer]

7 hours ago, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

Not really, we live in a ninja world and RP dictates that nowhere is safe.

In reality, a place that acted as an auction house, open for all 3 warring villages and criminals would have it's own security force. They would not have them killing each other at their location. That is simply bad for business and unproductive to their organization. Additionally, game mechanic wise, it would be atrocious to be attacked all the time with a shop tab open.

So, while the road getting to a location that isn't under site of the auction house, may be fair game. The auction house and the surrounding map would in reality be under security, preventing violence in any realistic circumstance.

(tldr; Normal people don't want to do business with someone that just killed their client)

[Music]

https://www.ninonline.org/forum/forums/index/topic/30239-suggestion-to-improve-the-global-commerce-of-nin-online/

[Power]

To add onto it, if that were to be a thing it should probably be in a no zone.

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

Not really, we live in a ninja world and RP dictates that nowhere is safe. Why should an auction house npc be safe? It's the risk of business. 
It opens up so much things too, for example someone making a sale could pay a fee to 3 ninjas to protect them while they travel to the auction house npc. 

[Chaos]

9 hours ago, Atrane said:

A long requested feature for the game has been an Auction House for players to able to exchange items without needing to meet face to face. Currently the meta for trading is to find someone selling an item on discord and then meet them at the train or toad arc. It hardly provides any true player interaction besides initially setting up the trade outside of the game and then meeting up.

Now, an auction house would make this process simpler but I can understand that it takes some of the RP out of the game. There could be some trade offs in order to make this a convenient alternative, such as:

• Ryo tax on items listed. There could be a % tax for using the auction houses services and whoever lists the item would pay it. For example, someone lists an item for 1000 and the auction house has a 30% tax, the seller would receive 700 ryo after their item is bought.
  • This tax would be another way of removing ryo from the economy and controlling inflation, while also providing some cost of using the benefits of the auction house.
     
• The auction house should be somewhere within the world similar to a bounty house and would require players to travel back and forth in order to make purchases or to collect ryo from sales.
  • If someone sells things on the auction house, they could receive mail informing them that they have ryo to collect. Similarly, items purchased could be mailed to the player. It might be easier to just have the mail system send both the ryo and items but I think it would be cooler to need to travel.
  • This change would help to encourage players to move throughout the world.

Overall a change could take some time to implement but I think it would be healthy for the games economy while also giving another way to encourage activity in the actual game.

Maybe we can finally do something with Tanzaku or Asoki to make it useful.

Another thing I was going to add, to counter Ainz's argument, but also reinforce @Naer's suggestion,

What's stopping a Daimyo (Whether it be the land of fire, or land of water) RP wise to make laws for this area (the auction house)

to avoid having people murder each other like animals.

[Marshall D Naga]

On 3/16/2022 at 9:28 PM, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

Not really, we live in a ninja world and RP dictates that nowhere is safe. Why should an auction house npc be safe? It's the risk of business. 
It opens up so much things too, for example someone making a sale could pay a fee to 3 ninjas to protect them while they travel to the auction house npc. 

Bro stop being a party pooper, this suggestion is good you are just mad that you have takumi spam ptsd so you dont feel safe everywhere, its ok Ainz Owaal Ibn Abdul Muttalib Asaqeer Al Gown, this suggestion should be added cause i the Takumi kage approve.