How to fix all negative sides of original AH in RoS:
- all drop-rates are remained the same as now (in RoS), no changes at all;
- all bounded to account items are remained bounded to it, no ways to transfer them between accounts excepting the existing in RoS way (during 1 hour in group) and putting up items for auction;
- any legendary item can be sold off only 1 time;
additions:
a) reroll of item by Miriam will make the item untradable
(just for simplicity, otherwise one need to make the additional functional to show the price of the next reroll of such item);
b) legendary item can be placed on AH only on bidding on rates during one day, no instant redemption at all;
(edition 2) to prevent the "sniping" of the item in the last second, the time of the item on AH will be automatically increased on additional 24 hours in the case if its price will be changed in the last 30 minutes (this time can be adjusted).
c) resources can be traded without any limitations
(including all new types of them that were added in RoS);
- for real money one can sell / buy only gold;
- maximum gold-price on AH = maximum value of int64 (9.2x1018);
note: if the maximum gold-price on AH is hard-coded (= maximum value of int32 = 2x109) or one just do not want to deal with many zeros in prices, so - 3 additional items for AH (like on Steam) and the appropriate dropdown-menu to choose between the gold and one of these items
small gold bar = 1 million of gold;
medium gold bar = 1 million of small gold bars;
big gold bar = 1 million of medium gold bars. - additional limitations for the access to AH:
seasons - only after completing the Season Journey;
non-season - only after reaching Greater Rift level 70 Solo; - selling of experience (for gold; as resource):
a) non-season - pure trading of EXP if the current paragon of buyer is not less than 800 and not more than 3000;
b) everywhere - trading of EXP of yellow cups between players.
AH as one more addon at the price of necro-pack.
FAQ
Q: “What are the negative sides of original AH and what points above will fix them?”
A: These ones:
- low drop-rates - item 1 (excepting primals in RoS);
- output items on Black Markets - items 2 and 5;
- AH as emulator of Stock Exchange - items 3 and 3b;
- saturation of AH - item 3;
- inflation - seasons.
Q: “For what purpose do one need AH in RoS?”
- It is possibility to exchange anything on anything (equivalent exchange);
- it is possibility for anyone to buy anything for real money;
legal possibility, instead of using bots; - it is possibility for anyone to sell anything for real money;
legal possibility, instead of using non-legal sites.
Q: “What are about inflation and very big prices in gold?”
A: You need to understand one simple thing.
AH - is the way to exchange anything on anything (equivalent exchange) for millions players simultaneously (the alternative and the most optional way for trade-forums and 1-by-1 exchange) and the gold is just intermediate pool for this purpose. It is not SHOP, where you can buy anything for small amount of gold that you can farm from the ground during several hours. In another words: if you see something on AH, the price of this item must show the rarity of this item = time you need to spend for that to farm it = time you need to spend for that to farm the gold for it from the ground.
So, when you say something like this: “wow! what is huge unreal price of this item?!” - you just do not understand neither the meaning of AH nor the meaning of intermediate pool (gold) in it, you just want this item with no efforts in farm of it.
No problems at all when you got something in your farm and will try to exchange this on any other equivalent item (or set of items with the less rarity) - you will always obtain the correct price of your item and will buy anything you want.
What do we have now in RoS? The only way to obtain something - just to farm it. The top-primal on another class - it is just 15 souls, no more, you can’t exchange it on something useful for you. Top-players need resources that do not require any efforts - they just use bots. Potential donaters do no want to play - they use either bots or non-legal sites where another players provide for them all they want (without using bots). All these situations will be solved with the minimal efforts by the using the simple 7 points in this thread. Of course, it is not 100% solution of problem with bots - on replacement of these 2 types of users of bots we will obtain (with such theory) the third one: ones who will farm everything, will sell this on AH and then will convert gold to real money (part of which will be used to buy new copies of D3+RoS+Auction-addon after next ban of account). If we remove the possibility to buy / sell gold for real money, we will have exactly the same situation with bots as we have now (exactly, we will have all 3 types of them + additional motivation to bypass our limitations).
Additional moments (edition 1):
i) the way to fix problem with bots “once and for all”
ii) AH-addon is the OPTIONAL feature, so
iii) official position of Blizzard about AH
these things (items a and b) were removed in this theory due to items 1, 3, 3b and 6.
iv) problems of Blizzard with legality of trade for real money
and solution for this “problem” and one more
v) the sence of AH and reason for its returning
