One step further than a simple auction house, it would be nice to have a feature where you can request items and list a price. The CE trader pretty much already does this. Since you will know what you want from reading recipes, there's no reason to not include a scroll-down list of reagents you wish to buy so you can inform folks that you're ponying up 2k crowns or some quantity of CE for a monster bone.

A system for buying equipment would be a little trickier, given the possibility of unique variants.

I second this idea. Trying to buy or sell things in /1 chat is simply too time consuming, and sometimes non productive.

Additionally, I think it would be neat if the auction house used the same "post offer" system as the energy market. I like it much more than WoW's auction house.

We seriously need something to help with trades.

/1 WTS
Player: Ooo, I'll buy it for a bajillion CE!
Me: Ok, meet me in Haven 5
Player: Erm, I'm in Haven 2
Me: Uhm.. ya...
/1 WTS in Haven 5 only!

Sure, you can mail the item for crowns, but needing to pay to bypass a simple trade is ridiculous.

Plus, an Auction house lets you browse items you might not know exist. Sell items in bulk easily, etc, etc, etc.

Many pluses, very few, if any, negatives.

DO EET!

Really... REALLY... need an auction house

agreed! something an Auction House would be fantastic.

A Commodity Market (give it a fancy robot name I guess) that operated like the energy market, but for any given item, definitely has my support.

Yep definitely agree!

Having something like this would be very useful for finding materials I don't have, as well as for buying/selling crafted equipment for some extra money. Would also get rid of all the "WTB/WTS this and that" messages from the chat. I approve.

Please God implement an auction house. This seems like a no brainer.

Signed. I can't believe this wasn't implemented before beta was finished.

Yup this is a necessity, the forums/yelling in chat is too time consuming. I love me the crafting meta-game but simply wasting time sitting around is not my thing.
Also it would make it easier for new players to figure out what a fair price is vs. some people charging 2k for a one star item and someone buying it because they don't know better.

Yes please

Yes

If preferable, have something like an acution hose and a posting for buying and selling

like so

Auction:
item: time left: seller: price:
iron gear 20 min deadlikeyou 9001crowns

Posting would require a down payment of the price offered/item and would go something like this

Buying:
item: Buyer: price:
Iron gear DeadLikeYou 300 ce

+1 to this we totally need it ASAP please :)

Ahhh please add an auction house, or at least share your opinion on them, OOO :(

34th'd.

The main reason I really feel that this is an important addition to the game is... SPAM. Non-auction games typically have their global chat channels in a constant state of spamminess. For Spiral Knights it is even worse, because there are so many different types of materials, and because crafting is efficient and easy to access, AND because many materials sit unused if the player pursues specific armor/weapon lines.

So everyone will always have lots of materials to sell, and the only way to do so on a large scale is to spam /zone with all of your materials, or the ubiquitous "lots of 0-3star materials for sale, PST".

The game really needs an item exchange of some kind even if it is only to reduce the above chat congestion. New players at the moment are greeted, as soon as they reach Haven, to a massive wall of trade text. Not the best introduction to Spiral Knights!

Signed. Would reduce spam in chat windows, would give a sense of worth on items, the AH could take a cut of CE from transactions (money sink), etc. This needs to be implemented asap if this game wants to last for a significant time.

Totally, totally agree with this. Sometimes it's so hard to sell some stuff because you have so many different things, and it is not alway the case that the "buyer" is online to buy the goods ur selling.

Make an auction house, call it a "Marketplace" be default with different tab to put your stuff up for sale, like materials, weapons, hats, tops, shields etc.

the fee on equipment should be something like 5%. If you would be selling an owlite shield for 5k (just an example) it would cost you 250 crowns to put it up for sale.

for materials make the fee like 1 or 2%, that makes it more attractive to put ur mats in the marketplace and wait for it to sell, recieving a message your item has been sold, and the money has been added to your account.

overall this makes spamming /z decrease, and is now available for crafting help, and for the really "big items" liek 5 stars.

i think this would be awesome, who agrees with me! =)

Agreement with all that has been said. Except Deathbreak, cause s/he doesn't want it. GRRRR. =)

*BUMP*

Seriously, the trade chat needs only be for crafters and people who want help.

As for organization, I imagine we could have a marketplace vendor for each type of equipment (like how Ricasso sells bombs and Vatel sells recipes, only with unique people just for the marketplace). There would be one for swords, one for guns and bombs, one for recipes, one for helmets, etc.

It'd be so much easier that way.

Some form of Auction House needs to be put into play.

+1 totally needed! I hate to spam "WTS:..." all the time :x

Something to make the Bazaar more of a bazaar is a must! (You'd expect a bazaar would be where you can sell stuff...to other people.) We can't read or see anything while going through the clockworks, and, maybe vending would be a great way to pass time while waiting for ME to generate.

Outside of vending, an auction house. Got to T2 and need one more simple item? Have no fear, the Auction button is here! And then to add to it, the item request thing from a post up above. It'd make recipe hunting easier. Someone needs the annoying Striker recipe! They're willing to pay 7.5k, and/or some CE! Make some spare cash and help a person out. As for auctions, multiple payment types. The person will accept either CE or crowns. Or, the person can sell for both. IE : Sell a calibur for 1000 Crowns, or 50 CE, or 1000 crowns and 50 CE. Plus, we'd have a mini-ingame database if we can search for what we want. It'd be nice if we could see stats on weapons/armors and the like, but anything works.

I heavily agree. An Auction House/Bazaar system that doesn't include shout-floods or overclog of characters standing around vending heavily helps the economy of a game, and makes it much more enjoyable.