Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The character bazaar is blatently inefficient. It's a mess, to say the least. Scrolling through dozens of pages looking for a character you might want to buy and getting led astray from mis-leading and vague topic names, and by the time you get to page 6 or 7 after taking a bit of a look at one paticular topic, you realise they're the same threads that used to be on page 4.

Selling? Don't talk to me about selling. Everybody is bumping their threads continuously, it's like an anthill and everybody wants to be at the top. in a matter of minutes you're not even on the first page anymore. after a day? you're buried somewhere in the depths where nobody can see your topic. you have to keep constant maintenence on the thing.

You also have people who have more than one character, dozens of characters, who want to earn ISK through selling characters (this IS a sandbox game, right? there's a tonne of people who are reseller of characters.) And Bazaar rules dictate they have to create the forum thread with the character they're selling. Oh great, so that means if we want to sell 10 characters we have to make 10 seperate threads and keep bumping each and every single one lest they get buried in a deep pile of characters.

In one word, INEFFICIENT.

I propose Character Bazaar gets some sort of DESIGN to it. Navigation functions, make it easier for everybody.

Hell, simple use of people being able to tag their topics with things like "Capital Pilot", "Amarr" and having a USEFUL search function (I'm sorry but your generic search function is the pits. Hello, topics that are completely unrelated or years old and locked!) That collects all forum threads with these tags and lists them would be a million times better than the scrapheap you have right now.

You could even incorperate it as an in-game mechanic, making it as easy as 1,2,3. You're CCP. you've designed Market systems, contract systems, agent finding systems, even bloody corporation finding systems, whether you want a roleplaying/hardcore corp etc etc.

so after this evidence of efficient or semi-efficient navigation engines, please don't tell me you can't design something for selling characters, because it would be wonderful if you did.

I would love you... more.

Hate this idea? Love this idea? At least, say something. Because we all know, like those fated threads in the Character Bazaar, that without bumps and loving attention every minute of the day it'll disappear and the right people won't be able to see it.

Thanks for reading!

Levi

Bump. Come on. Lets change this bazaar. Or at least, comment on what you think!