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Aww. And I had a whole different dance all practiced up for today...
*dances the halfling dance of sadness*
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I believe the eventual plan is that we can see what is in other auction houses but not buy it, or perhaps that buying from the auction house deposits the purchase in the bank where the auction was posted from. I think (hope?) there are similar plans for the banks.....
I am wondering about something: I think the plan is to let players be able to browse the AH's across the world from one spot (since else someone else would offer such functionality out of game anyway)....
I believe the plan is every AH is local only.
The One in Talonguard does not have access to the one in ThornKeep as an example.
Introducing skills that allow remote buying and selling may initially seem to advantage small settlements and players but it is a can of worms that can advantage cartels, big traders and enable all sorts of scamming and market manipulation. It would be a two edge sword. My impression is we are not getting it any time soon if ever.
With banks on the other hand forcing people to carry huge amounts of gold as hard cash anytime they want to trade in a remote settlement would serious limit trade. You need to bear in mind that once we get to T3 stage serious traders may need to move 200,000 or 300,000 gold regularly between settlements. Every settlement would end up needing its own auction house and trade would end up very local. Forcing traders to walk around with huge gold cash reserves may seem like a boon to would be bandits but in fact it would merely just stop trade and make banditry unviable.