Welcome to Gaia! :: The Feature Suggestion Thread (FST)

My suggestion is for removing a feature, rather than adding one.

AVERAGE BUY PRICE
Please! Lose the darn thing! I beg you!

It may have served a purpose (Though I doubt it) when the new MP was introduced, but now it's a hindrance. People are using it as the "Holy Bible of Pricing" because (OMFG) they cannot be bother with actually checking the item itself! All that happens is that sellers wind up undercutting, and usually by a large amount. Yeah, it might be nice for the luxury items, since you can grab a bargain or two, but you rarely see a large difference between the lowest price on the market and that ABP, when it comes to those items.

Taking that Average Buy Price out of the MP will not only prevent that undercutting, and thus force users to actually look the item up, but it will also prevent items from being grossly overpriced (IE: Many starter items) as well. Many cheap items like the starter items, have high average buy prices attached to them.

Maybe I am the only one who thinks this way, but to me that feature is about as useful as placing a "Shop" price on items that are not, and never have been, in the shops. Both are misleading, and deceiving.

Gaia Marketplace -


it would be awesome to be able to list items for sell in lots rather than just one item at a time. For example, alot of people sell multiple letters or collectables at once, but to do this we pretty much have to hang out in the exchange, or put in each letter one at a time on the market. But if we could list selling items in lots of 2 or more, for a total price on the lot, it would be much quicker and easier to get rid of things when we want gold to buy other things.

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another way this could be done is to be able to list however many you want to sell and then list a general price per item, and people could click on the buy link for the said item, at the price they approve of (please refer to pic below)
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the buy link will take them to a page where they can choose the number of items they wish to buy at the time and complete thier transaction.(please refer to pic below)
http://i33.tinypic.com/2ziyg5s.jpg

umm, did everyone forget about the scion raffle thing?

yeah, when is that going to happen?

yes, we read it! surprised

every time we go and do an update of some part of the site (arenas, inventory, etc) we read through and see all the great ideas here. most of them get read, many of them get discussed, and a few of them get implemented. its not necessarily a fast process, and we obviously cant do everything. but yeah, keep the ideas coming!

I'd like to see a high score feature similar to what they do for the fishing game but with pinball,word bump, etc.

One thing I'd like is for it to be easier to sell items back to the gaia shops. Right now, you have to navigate to the item in the inventory (each step of which causes the entire page to reload), select it, click the "sell" button, click another "sell" button for the shopkeeper, the page reloads and the item inventory is reset back to the first page, and then you have to do that all over again for the next item. There are a couple ways this could be made less tedious:

1. Being able to 'batch' sell items back, similar to how trades are done. The way sell-backs are handled in Animal Crossing: Wild World is pretty decent.

2. Just having the item inventory not revert back to the first page would make it easier. Usually when I'm returning items, they're mostly in the same area of the inventory.

The second one is probably easier to implement. I'd be happy if the inventory just stayed put after I sold an item. Less page reloads would also be nice.

The "sell" buttons are very small targets, and if the user clicks just a pixel outside of it the dialogue box closes and the item has to be re-selected and the two "sell" buttons pressed again. It'd be nice if the dialogue box only closed if one of the buttons was pressed, that way slightly missing the target doesn't equal canceling the transaction.

Since item normalization, errors when trying to sell items back to the shops are pretty common. This would be a lot less annoying if the above issues were resolved.