Originally Posted by
banden
Player interaction. Thats what you lose with an auction house and a mail system. We dont need this stuff in this game, an MMORPG is supposed to thrive on player interaction and so many games have features that have adverse effects on player interaction. Its not good gamedesign, its the easy way out.
From your suggestions its easy to see that you have no clue what makes an economy actually work. These are features that make trading easier, it has very little to do with actual economy. What actually needs to happen instead of auction houses and mail system, is whats allready been planned: mounts make it easier and faster to travel and carts makes it easier to move a lot of stuff around. The end.