Auction House Feature Missing?

Temijin_DeathStalkyr

I've searched through the AOC wiki for the ability for players to place "buy" orders on the auction house and couldn't find it mentioned. A crafter who needs certain materials could place a buy order on the auction house and have players sell to fill the order. Eve online has such a feature which works great IMHO.

An example would be A crafter who needs 100 refined leather. Instead of constantly checking the market to see what is available, they place a buy order for a volume and price they are willing to pay. A refiner see that buy order and fills it from stock on hand but can't fill it all. The refiner puts up a buy order for raw skins so that he can refine them and fill the rest of the order. She doesn't have to keep checking the market for the skins.

The crafter sees that there is a refiner who keeps filling the order so contacts him and sets up a private buy order with the refiner at an agreed price. The refiner does the same with hunters who have been reliable suppliers of raw skins. Each step of the chain now has a reliable source with a predicted price they can use for financial planning. In the real world this is called a "supply chain".

A successful business is based on providing a product or service of a quality and price demanded buy those with a need willing to pay for it. In order to profitably price the product or service, the business needs a stable supply chain with predictable costs and availability of raw materials. A buy order system help this process.

Thoughts?

Otr

Edit. I see from the answer below that I misunderstood the question.

Ludullu

I think the closest thing to this would be player stalls and/or shops. Those will provide both a source of player services and a place of trade that can work w/o a player and can buy/sell stuff while you're offline (well, stalls can).

ShivaFang

Auction houses are found in economic nodes as one of that node types key features. When an economic node becomes a Metro it shares the auction house with the rest of ti's vassal netowkr.

We don't know how the system will work as it won't be implemented until Phase 3.

Temijin_DeathStalkyr

The devs want a player driven economy. They should study Eve online. There is no other game out there with such a robust economy. The buy order system is a key part of their system.

nanfoodle

ShivaFang wrote: »

Auction houses are found in economic nodes as one of that node types key features. When an economic node becomes a Metro it shares the auction house with the rest of ti's vassal netowkr.

We don't know how the system will work as it won't be implemented until Phase 3.

Nodes will have auction houses for their node. Economic nodes talks about linking other AH from other nods. I do wonder if thats just for other Economic nodes or can it be does to other node types?

ShivaFang

nanfoodle wrote: »

Nodes will have auction houses for their node. Economic nodes talks about linking other AH from other nods. I do wonder if thats just for other Economic nodes or can it be does to other node types?

This is not correct. All nodes will have player stalls, only economic nodes and vassals of an economic metro have auction houses. (At stage 3 or greater of course in all cases)

Here is the relevant wiki page;
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Auction_house

Caeryl

Wasn't there a comment specifically about buy orders being no-go'd for some reason?

Dygz

Auction House was a stretch goal. No surprise it's not ready for the start of Alpha 2.

LordPax

Watch the recent interviews with Steven. Auction House exists, but is still going through iterations and wont be available until later phases. Any speculation beyond official information is a moot point.