Some future inevitable changes

Teamtom

1) Connected auction houses

2) Summoning group members

3) Fast travel

4) A hearthstone

5) Auction house search options, sort lowest cost materials

6) Auction house buy orders

7) Refining goods cost and time

8) Crafting xp

As it stands, trading is not possible. The marketplace is setup in such an unintuitive format its almost humorous. Why do I have to click through each player's "shops" to find the lowest priced material. This is not the type of friction that people are looking for. I don't want to have to click through 100 shops to accurately price my goods. The problem will just continue to get worse as more people list stuff for sale. No need to overthink things. Sometimes simple is better for the sake of everyone sanity. Re-inventing the wheel is not needed. Unless the goal is to make a frustrating game that no one wants to play. Then carry on.

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Ludullu

Unless the goal is to make a frustrating game that no one wants to play. Then carry on.

This is exactly the goal.

MCMVI

Most of the things you talk about Will be added , its nothing new. Fast travel Will be very limited however

ShaggyRyn

So the action house is only going to be tied to economic settlements. For the rest it will come when the game is more developed other than fast travel. My suggestion would be that you can look up buy orders but if it doesn’t have a auction house you would have to caravan or crate it to the settlement where it is posted.

The reason for no fast travel is to keep the world big. This helps keep large guilds from running a whole server plus many other reasons.

Teamtom

https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/512223#Comment_512223

We know exactly what segregated marketplaces become. When New World first released it too had separated marketplaces. What eventually ends up happening is no one uses any of them except 1 or 2. Trust me, connecting the marketplaces is an absolute must. It's semi-working still because everyone is leveling. But once more people get max level and traffic on the marketplace increases. The majority of marketplaces will end up dead with no listings. It's just a matter of "when" they make this change, not "if" they make it.

Dorado

The market is very annoying, i cant believe it is set up like it is, there are a few games out with good Auction houses and like someone said why try to reinvent the wheel when there are so many better options you could have taken pieces from to make something that is great and easy to use.

I agree it does feel like they want to make something where you are stuck wasting your time on stuff no one finds fun, the crafting system is another great example.

for example to make a light armour you buy mat from vendor run to herb processing station, run to tanning vendor to buy mat and processing station and then wait for that to finish and run back and grab mats from previous station, run to vendor for the mat you need at the crafting station and then to the crafting station. On top of that you need to go to the stations first to see what vendor mat you need and then a wait time on all the processing and a processing fee(even after buying a vendor mat for everything).

If they just removed the vendor mat and cut the processing times down some it would make a world of difference on the frustration level. It gets me wondering if they are aiming this game towards a small group of people that enjoy created frustration for no other reason than to make something take longer than it should to drag out a process. The levelling is a grind which is fine because you are actually playing the game and the combat fun, but when they are making it a grind to scroll though the marketplace or trying to craft/process some items it not fun and 95% of people won't enjoy it. The majority of people have only a couple hours a day wont want to spend 40% of their time going through stuff like this.

ShaggyRyn

But if it is connected there will be no reason to ever have to move your materials around with crates and caravans. I agree it is super frustrating but I don’t think a fully connected auction house is the answer because it undermines other sysystems.

LucyusI

Never - defeats the core purpose of the game, the risk and reward part. AH will be ONLY in the economic nodes, the rest will have just markets. I DO agreed that the marketplace needs some QoL. But at the same time, I understand what they want to do. AHs will be available only in economic nodes, and marketplaces will literally act like stalls that you have to browse through.
Never - The only exception being summoning family members with a 24hrs cooldown. The game wants you to go to a specific place with an intention. Not summon party. At that point we could just have instanced dungeons and have a button to make up a party. Ashes does not want to do any of that. Never did, and they stated that all the way in the beginning.
Not in the sense you mean. Fast travel will be in available in capitals, across capitals, scientific ones to be more precise, and only if they build the gateway or however they want to name it. Other forms will be in the form of airships and naval ships. But they will never add the ability to press a button and "Teleport to this location". Again, defeats the core mechanics that the game is build upon.
You can do that. Set your ember spring as your main one. Then die and revive there. But we will have a "return to base" option. Defeats the purpose of the game.
I agree, that needs to be an option. Markets need some QoL, but, what I said at point 1.
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What of them?
Yea, that probably is a bug or something, higher quality processes/crafts seem to not give more xp for some reason.

Seems that you want to basically play an entierly different game. There are games that have all of these things that you require. Maybe those are more your cup of tea.

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