I'm worried about the in game spam of people buying n selling and communication for other players who have to sift thought it all.

seeing we can join 5 guilds at a time (last i looked) why not have one huge guild named auction house that everyone can join and spam there buying in selling in that to people who want to see it?

Or maybe just have a trade chat channel.

I like this idea.

I think there is a cap of 500 people per guild. As much as i love this idea, it wont be possible to accmplish due the the guild member cap

Trade chat channel is pointless, because most people will turn it off due to spam , and then the traders will start spamming in the general chat channel to sell stuff.

Do what we did in eq1 and pick a certain area to be the trading post, then people can spam wts or wtt in it, it's still weird in eso with the phasing though.

A dedicated trading area for your faction would work just as well as /zone.

well having people buy in zone would be about the worst thing i could think of

Personally i think the community will force zenimax's hand post launch and an auction house will be introduced.

I honestly hope so. As much as I hate spam in general chats, I hope it will be so severe that an auction house (or trade stalls or whatever global trading system) will be introduced as fast as possible.

Unlike dude above me, I really really REALLY hope not.

AH's are [censored] dumb, 'lets just buy all the best stuff, rather than earn it weww I'm so good at this game, lets flood the market with the same end-game gear for cheap weeeww"

And to whomever said trade chat is useless; trade chat is not useless. People go there FIRST, when they want to SELL or to BUY, they don't sit in /zone and scratch their bums, they open /trade and WTB or WTS spam.

Dunno where you got the idea it was useless.

Is the chat for each zone in the game global? or is the chat phased as well?

I don't fully understand your question

/zone chat, in Auridon for example, is broadcast to everyone inside of Auridon...I believe if you are in an instanced dungeon, you won't see it. (oddly enough, there are some small packets of areas outside that are dead-zones...zone chat dies when you go in them, which I think is a bug)

But if I /zone'd in Auridon, someone in Stonefalls wouldn't see it.

Does this answer your question?

I guess /trade would need to be broadcast to either everyone in the same alliance (aka, in one of the four (five?) areas per alliance)

In this game, there are different phased versions of each zone . For example there are 5 phases of auridon . Say if i am in phase X of auridon and u are in phase Y . Will you see what i type in zone chat?

When I play I create different chat chanels. Exaample 1 for party,guild,whisper chat maybe normal chat with players close to you. Hving yell,zone and other 'spam' rich chat in another chanel. Worked for me and my friends like any other mmo.

I'm too tired to think of an intelligent answer to this question, so here it is.

Trade chat, with all it's downfalls, would be vastly superior to auction house because reasons.

Why worry? There will be plenty of auction houses in Cyrodill. If some people want to sell they can cooperate with guilds who own keeps. Very simple and not need to chat, spam, create artificial guilds etc.

Only IF a guild owns a keep and who knows how long that will happen for? not to mention how out of the way it is to go shopping.

It is just automatically, bigger guild has bigger chance to have keep for longer time.

Only if their selling what u happen to be looking for? not to mention the guild vs keep ratio !

This - SO this. Thanks Ons1aught!

*CAMPAIGNING FOR A TRADE CHAT CHANNEL AND RULESET FOR NO SELLING IN MAIN CHAT CHANNEL!!

Trade channels just wont work as they used to. People will just use zone chat to sell their wares as lot of people will have trade channel turned off except when they want to sell stuff to avoid spam. And not ruleset can enforce people to used a trade channel unfortunately .And the spam will be worse since its a megaserver.

There is indeed not as easy as with global AH, but I doubt the trade channels will survive.

If there is one megaserver channel created it will be over spammed.

Also if some guild has a wish to sell it is their business to create good asortiment - I'm still in hope that 500 people who want to sell and protect the kepp can create good AH and be able to protect keep longer then few hours.

only if that guild is in the same instance of cyrodiil as you?