Speculator NPC in the bank.

Can we get a speculator NPC in the bank? He could give us the average or median prices for the prices of things players have bought from other players. Maybe it's a week old to simulate the time it would take for his or her business associates to gather the data around Novia...

It would make pricing stuff a lot easier.

 

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this one. It's a but 'gamey' to me (just my opinion), and is a good example of where QOL clashes with over simplification and the community ends at loggerheads again.

I craft and sell a lot and setting prices is a challenge. I have to do a fair bit of research initially for a new sales line, but after a short wander looking at other vendors prices is fairly easy to identify a 'ball park' price .

What is clearly more important after that stage is whether it sells, which (having 3 vendors) is hugely dependent on location and passing trade and whether you're lucky enough to have a tax free vendor or not.

Monitoring sales as I do, I often have to tweak to get the 'sweet spot' at which point I get a run of sales. It may then go quiet again and I have to shave prices again. Often, I've set a price wrong, way too low, and I get a rush of sames wiping out my stock and its pretty obvious I've given folks a bargain! On occasion I've been lucky too and picked up stuff at a very low price either because the player has under sold or (as I also do) made a large batch to sell excess stock of materials.

So my point is, to me this price setting and tweaking of prices by location to get sales is part of the game, and an interesting challenge. In BDO, a game I have a huge amount of time for, one thing I do not like is that it gives you a rolling high-low price and suggests a mean selling price. Yes it's easy, yes it's convenient, but it's pretty brain dead stuff, and I also often wonder how folks get bargains or the occasional screw in such a system and u would imagine it also flattens the market. They do have a cool auction system though.

 

There is a player made site that may be helpful in pricing things:

https://shroudoftheavatar.net/sotaItemPriceList

It's created by players submitting their sales receipts log files.

 

Yeah I've been using that and the BMC site but it breaks my immersion a bit, I'd rather have the same functionality but in-game you know? Steevo makes some fair points though.