I believe the current Trade Center could use some improvement. I've included my ideas for proposed changes below; please tell me your thoughts! If you don't agree with any of them please tell me why, and if you do agree or have anything to add feel free to chime in as well.

Opening Page: lists most recent and/or hottest (high bid amount) trades of all categories. This would give a nice summary of the current trade market. The opening page would have links to category pages as well as the links to creating/managing your own trades/transfers. The user specific search could also reside here.

Category pages: Decors. Food. Toys. Other. Lions. Currency.

No need to force players to choose a category, just base it on what's in the trade itself. Trades can belong to more than one category. This way a player that just wants to buy food doesn't have to search for specific food items and hope that someone is selling that particular item. This also allows people who have a random food items for sale to be easily found. This allows for more organization as well. Place the Search Item Trades box in the Trades category (and such for the Lion search box as well).

Title Search: The ability to browse categories makes not having this function sting a bit less, but it would still be quite handy. I would not suggest having it by itself however. Searching for "Food" would return results ranging from "Selling food" to "Trading Lioness for Food." It would be potentially clunky to sort through without the aid of categories.

Trade Bump: At this time I haven't put a lot of thought into whether a thread should be bumped every time someone places a bid on it, or if it should have the option to be bumped by the seller. It may not be as an important or desirable feature once things are more organized and easier to find. This one gets mixed support, and I personally hope that the other changes make this not as necessary.


The following were brought up within the thread by other players.

Multiple Pages for Search Results: Suggested by The Rabid Bilby, and honestly a sound suggestion. Being able to view more results allows for more options and more opportunity to sell an item/lion that may otherwise be unviewable due to being off the page.

Renew Trades: Suggested by Frostfall. The ability to renew trades when they reach the end to prevent massive amounts of relisting (I would also say this would pair well with the ability to edit buyout prices).

Mass Item Listing: Suggested by Galaxis. Honestly being able to plug in the number of items in a particular stack you wish to list instead of checking off individual single items would be amazing for people trying to post dozens or even hundreds of an item like feathers or skulls.