This will probably get quite a lot of hate. But we already have a "poor mans" global auction house via shard transfer shields + Atlantic. I am on the server with the second largest market & most of the time I cannot find what I want to buy. Even simple bulk items are hard to find. If I really want something I have to spam general chat day & night for the one person who has not already transferred it to Atlantic. I constantly hear all prices compared to what it brings on Atlantic, & I am transferring my 50 SDI invasion books to Atlantic, yadda yadda yadda. Just move with the times & dump the individual shard search & make a full blown global auction house where everyone can buy & sell items from any shard without having to actually transfer to another shard. Make use of that antiquated mail system we used to have over a decade ago to deliver the goods we buy off of it (a lot of MMO's use an in-game mail system for purchases from auction house).The economy & markets are already ruined and permanently changed because of the shard transfer shields. So why not take the current warped state of the markets, get control of it, & turn it into something useful?
nahh, definitely not a lot of hate. but... they made shard bound for a reason, this will get rid of anything shardbound. why would you destroy something that the dev's took their time into making? and..... do you really think that it's a good idea? imagine what will happen when it breaks!!!!! i mean...... you do know that vendor search is perfect..
Have to agree with the first poster. For those of us that do not play on Atlantic and have not played the fourteen years it takes to get a shard transfer shield, vendor search often comes up short. During the invasion very few books came up on the shard that I play on and most of those were from the same player. Don't really like seeing prices on some items being controlled by just a few players. And, like the first poster said often can't find basic items or really desirable items. When I was learning Alchemy, I could not find any lined kegs for sale. Don't like the idea of buying from those third party sellers we are not suppose to buy from but for many of us that have not been playing for many years the game does not provide any other choice.
What about those people who have invested several Vet picks on shard shields for the purpose of going to ATL or other shards for shopping? Are they just S.O.L because other people can't shard transfer?
One of the reasons for doing that was to make this an mmo... talk to people. Ask around for free transfers. People will help you no problem.
Considering the broken farce that vendor search is reported to be much of the time, do you really think they can program this to work and actually pull it off?
Probably end up being another rushed system and a catastrophe
Regarding Norry's post. It's my understanding that the Shields and the transfers they produce are shard and account bound. The few times I have seen the shields on vendor search it states they are shard bound and account bound. Other posts I have read on the internet also state this. If the shields and transfers they produce are not shard and account bound this would be of great interest to me. Can someone verify that I can use someone else's transfer produced by their shield to transfer to another shard and back again? Thanks.
Just have the UO store sell shard shields. They seem to like selling store items. The vets earn theirs for "free", those not old enough can dish out RL $$$. Problem solved.
So 40 bucks for one time round trip, hard pass.