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OskaRus:
I think that one of most needed feature for every mmo is auction or some place for safe and offline item exchenge directly between players.
-Current trader system is not sufficient for this goal because of many reasons:
-constant threat of sucuide gankers and thieves,
-limited amount of money in traders,
-limited amount of usable goods in traders,
-huge amounts of junk in traders,
-lack of smarter goods search mechanism,
-traders are dispersed around whole wasteland.

Those reasons force players to make shitloads of personal stock due to item availability much more than its price and does not allow them to sell items comfortably and safely when not needed for proper price.
Forum auctions are useful only for players which are often online and willing to organize their time around trade which is very uncomfortale and not done much.

Free market have nice self regulatory function for item availability, usability and price, making everithing available for proper price.

Auction version 0) I think that first prerequisite for this kind of trade is making some secure place free of sucuide gankers and thieves.
IMHO this place should have features:
-Guards loots dead and shoot looters (prevention of sucuide ganking)
-Guards shoot everyone with weapon in active hand (prevention of sucuide ganking)
-Guards have zillion perception and shoots everyone who makes stealing action, even without any item stolen or planted (prevention of thieves)
-Lots of guards everywhere around for no blind spots
-Massive guard reinforcements in case of teir deaths

Auction version 1) Most needed is oflline item exchange. I think it can be realized by some "smart" containers which would open dialog where you cold say to whome transfer those items.
This person would find items you send upon opening this container and he might send you back money agreed via forum back without nescessity of both of you being online.

Auction version 2) Very important feature of all auctions is ability to sell those items to everyone in game for price you choose yourself.
This might be done by some trader which would accept items for 0 caps and asks you to set price for those items you are selling.
Items also should be removable from auction. Maybe by "smart" container. Buyers would just buy items from trader for price you set.
Items also should be removed from auction after some time. This time should be payed in caps. Maybe few caps mininimum a day and some percentage of item price as maximum.

Auction version 3) Last but not least feature of propper auction is bidding. I have no clear idea how to realize it in current fonline interface.
It might be done by trader which tells you itemid of item you chose in trade and then you say himm your bid for this item id and at the end of auction winner will get his item via "smart" container.

Things i think auction will ad. to this game:
+ better item availability
+ comfortable trade usable by casual player
+ safe out-of-faction item exchange
+ increased ingame use of caps
+ place just to hang around and talk nonsense to others
+ chance for dedicated crafters/miners to make fine living
Things i think will be reduced
- sucuide ganking
- population in famous NCR market
- people running around traders
- many crafter alts become obsolete
- massive stocks in base become less nescessary
- thrill of being suicuide ganked or stolen from during trade

avv:
This would be great.

I think best way to implement the auction would be like Oska explained: area that is 100% safe and free from griefing. If it's not, players will not come there and will resort again to offgame methods to trade. This feature just needs to be totally concentrated on trade and item exchange between players.

Senocular:
I'd say add computer in every city, the one that are in bases. These would be trading terminals. You could place your offers there and others could read them. More importanlty leaving an offer would mean leaving an item so if somebody buys it there he automatically gets it.

Alternatively everyone could have trading interface in his pipboy.

falloutdude:
sounds good :)

Sarakin:
I would really like to see this implemented one day, trading is one of the few things I enjoy the most. Alas, I doubt we gonna see this implemented sooner or later.

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