Generally speaking, there's the marketplace (which is great).

However, establishing trades out of game (forum) and then executing those trades in game...it seems like this experience could be improved?

To my knowledge the only way to trade items in game is via the marketplace, so there's nothing to stop other players from injecting themselves into that process. Maybe that is just the expectation at this point, and people have gotten used to it. Or maybe it's not as big of an issue as it seems.

But what if the marketplace could be extended to also offer 'private' trades between two parties to help facilitate. If the concern here is 'avoiding the fee' (people just trading for 1fg between each other) then maybe there could be a mandatory minimum fee just to use it. Or maybe add a timebox restriction (can only use it x times per day/week) to still encourage use of the mp. But it would be nice to have some mechanism to help orchestrate a trade and not leave it up to chance.

Anyhow what are your thoughts, and what are your tips for trading with the current system that is in place?

This post was edited by penguinhero on Jan 30 2021 12:23pm

If done properly there’s very little risk involved in using the marketplace. You can simply private message a user in game asking if they’re ready to purchase said item.

I don’t think it’s a necessary use of Paul’s time, there are other things that I’m sure there are plenty of other things he’s got going on.

Just my opinion though. I think the marketplace is fine

The MP works very well when used properly.
There is such a thing as communicating between buyer and seller
using the in-game chat in order to negate any attempts at losing the trade

Basic common sense: Don't place an item up for sale until the buyer is ready to buy

I agree here. The game has plenty of other issues, the marketplace is NOT one of them......close this thread =(

Disagree, needs the prepaid fee removed and the limit of <20fg items increased or removed all together.

So what you really want is a huge storage area at no cost, right??

No, what I want to do is be able to list real gear as well as help out skillers without being trapped with only 25 items. I collect everything lvl 40+ for tor_zero and sp_patl to mute. I think it’s stupid to limit at 25 items. What’s the real rational? Storage abuse is laughable. You would be eating the fee for listing the item at an exorbitant price. You would be better off renting vault slots.

This post was edited by Cheeya on Jan 30 2021 02:12pm

I wouldn’t mind the limit of <20 items to be increased to 25-30 at the most.....after that it’s going to be a huge flood in the market of useless junk that doesn’t sell that people will just keep editing over and over again......

Agreed. I shrine gear worth thousands every month due to the fact that it takes too long for them to sell and I can earn way more from having the market slot for mutes.

If you have anything worth over 500fg dont shrine it, pm me and ill buy it for 1 fg off the market. Everyone wins. Kthanks