All the twiddling in the world, in the manner they are doing it, will not address the real issue, returning the AH to the original vision of players selling to players, as opposed to players selling to middlemen, who then impose a sort of tax on the playerbase by reselling at inflated prices.
Solutions: 1) Ban/Break all AH mods. This forces scammers to list each item manually, making it unfeasibly slow to spam hundreds of listings. 2.) limit an account to no more than five concurrent listings of any particular item, regardless of stack size, and 25 auctions overall.
Those numbers are estimates, and could be tweaked to ensure players legitimately farming and selling mats aren’t affected, only AH bots buying up mats and marking them up. On the buying UI end, allow for “sort by unit cost buyout price” to make searches more efficient.
I will not be taking questions. Because this is the perfect fix from a macro-econ perspective. Rage all you want, AH scammers, IDC.
You do realize that most legit players use AH Mods, as the original version ingame is pretty much unusable for anything but buying leveling gear?
Also, most players do legitimately list more than 5 items regularly.
The AH isn’t broken, the performance of the servers hosting it as well as maybe the database structure on them is the problem.
So fix the UI issue. The one suggestion I made would address one of the glaring UX issues. Don’t use that separate issue as an excuse to leave the status quo in place.
The AH is fundamentally broken, as it is a means for a few players to skim gold off their entire server, not a place for players to sell to players. As I said, the numbers can be tweaked.
So you want people to just not be able to make money? what is this communism? My guy, tons of people use the AH legitimately, crafting, farming, etc. In order to make gold to buy the things they want. The expansion gold sinks, their gems, enchants, mounts, etc. I’m guessing you just play broke all the time and have no idea how to properly use the AH and are just upset about it.
Nobody would be affected except the AH manipulators. You’re outing yourself as one. “Players” will be able to sell all they can farm up. Manipulators would be hobbled, which is, I suspect, your objection.
You’re so good at twisting what I said! Players who actually farm things and sell = good. AH bots who contribute nothing but take a cut from everything = bad.
so let me get this straight, only farmed materials should be allowed to be posted, nothing else. And in very limited amounts per player. Because anybody who crafts or uses their gold to buy and sell things as an investment are bots. Have you literally never heard of capitalism?
I am an AH addict and honestly I would support a limit per account. I would also code the AH to penalize fractional stacks with a double to triple cost to post when posting numbers less than half a stack.