Personal stores and lag

Budika - Sanctuary wrote: »

OK, while the premise of AH > Catshops sounds good in theory.... The fact is Catshops don't slow anything down... Other people looking at them do. Whenever you get a massive amount of people with different fashions/mounts/aerogear etc you'll have this slowdown on lesser computers....

Actually, every cat shop represents 1 player online. Whether or not they are moving. And that many people in that close an area causes lag. People should be able to move around the cities and city NPC's without the trouble this lag causes. Every store has data associated with it. That data is not stored on your computer, it's stored on the server. This means as you get within proximity to stores, data has to be exchanged. Both connection type and the users computer handle this in different manners. But it ALWAYS results in slower performance. The denser the population of stores the more detriment to system performance. And this not only puts a strain on player systems, it puts a strain on server performance as well. Put a 40 man raid together in any game for a raid. Bercause of the data exchange and the number of player in close proximity, all 40 players will suffer system performance. Most games, you have to seriously reduce data input to be able to raid effectively. regardless of the quality of your system. Several hundred stores in a small location has the exact same effect as you travel through them.

Budika - Sanctuary wrote: »

Now AH cannot replace Catshops due to several factors... 1 some items cannot be sold in AH but only in Catshop... 2 AH doesn't allow you to try on clothing.. 3 AH increases the cost of any item sold there due to the listing Fee....

Very few items in game cannot be purchased through the AH. These could be sold through the Trade channel or they could be made sellable through the AH. And a feature allowing the viewing of an items as they're seen worn is not difficult to program into the existing AH.

Budika - Sanctuary wrote: »

I'd love to see the AH wave fee's and allow anything to be sold there (That's tradable). The market would be much more competitive in that way... But at the end of the Day a Catshop's versitility could truly only be replaced if you could access the AH from a menu instead of a location.....

The AH fee for sale is minimal. And it is customary in most games. Consider it part of doing business.

Budika - Sanctuary wrote: »

Granted I don't like them Ontop of or blocking the View of NPC's the people who do this are extremely rude... If you also don't like this don't support them by buying there...

Better yet, don't buy from Cat shops at all. As I said, I find the biggest reason for using them is simply to sell without competition. Very few people will spend hours running from one shop to the next to make a purchase based on cost. The AH forces players to actually compete with each other in an open market. Competition controls prices. I don't buy from them. I don't sell through them. More players should consider doing the same.

And for those out there wondering, USE the AH a bit. See just how much cheaper items are on the AH verses Cat shops. You won't go back to them either.

Eremedy - Dreamweaver wrote: »

The thing with catshops blocking NPC...

I think it should be a quite easy thing to do - hear what's the solution:

There should be certain "Areas" around the NPC where it is impossible to put up the catshop. Let's say two meters around the NPC there's this area... And problem fixed.

And if they removed catboxes all together, people could go to the AH to sell and buy and none of what you proposed would be necessary.