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Five Minute Cooldown On Trade Chat


concernedcitizen

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By default, the trade chat accumulates posts in the background regardless of which channel potential buyers are in. 

 

There is no reason to post the same thing more than every 5 minutes since we can scroll up and check all the most recent posts.

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Currently, it's very hard to read trade chat as it becomes a pissing contest to see who can post their offer most frequently. Potential buyers are faced with countless pages of the same 4-5 offers, trying to read in-between them just to find something unique. 

 

We could see a much cleaner, diverse, and inclusive list should a simple cooldown be introduced.

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It's a win-win, buyers get a better list of offers to look at, and those sellers currently spamming to "stay visible" can relax and do something else for five minutes.

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I'd just say remove trade chat at all. Ever since the max fee on GTL was reduced to 25k, it has almost no practical use for someone that wants to do a fair trade. Today it's just for people looking to scam others. It's funny how often people offer things more expensive than they actually are on GTL.

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The biggest problem with this is the same reason why we kept trade chat at all after implementing the GTL. As soon as you take away a convenient/dedicated place to spam trades, you encourage players to flood global/channel chats with them instead, where they become extremely obnoxious for players trying to have a conversation. Trade chat in its current form is a necessary evil if we don't want other chat types constantly polluted by traders.

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well trade chat also has advantages over gtl - mostly that people can trade stuff instead of just buying with pure cash. This is especially useful when you for example want to break down a valuable shiny / vanity into a few lower tier ones. So removing trade chat should never happen - making it less full of spam would be nice to see tho

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