1) A list of generally traded, patched items that have a dynamic market price attached to it. Yes, much like equities in the stock market.
To track these trades, the current process of posting will remain, and all rules will need to be followed. When posting a new trade, the user will have an extra checkbox to check as an option (something like "List In Market" below"Track My Post" or something), then following a drop down of qualified items for the user to choose from that matches the item that is being traded.. The displayed price will be a rolling average of the X past trades in the realm (or global) market, or something.
2) Furthermore, the site could also offer buying and selling of these stocks.Yes this would be a major set of features with multiple sprint periods, but I think the business value is worth it.
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Of course, this would require a mediated trade to take place in order to guarantee the proper item was traded at the proper price.
Suggestion #2 will be tricky, since we don't want users to take advantage of the system by setting up an inflated trade with a buddy in order to profit off of the stocks by forcing the average price to reach ridiculous highs/lows - so we'll table that for now.
This post was edited by Nickels on Jan 12 2017 06:30am