Re:Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
by SketchySeaBeast on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:07PM
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My only gripe about the ESO method is it locks all non-guild players out of placing things on the auction house, but otherwise you're dead on.
So there is a lot of competition to get a good guild trader, and guilds all bid large sums of gold to try to get a good trader. The winning bid for a trader gets the trader for 1 week, and the gold spent on the winning bid is destroyed. So it turns into a self balancing system, because if there is too much gold in the economy then the guild trader bids go up really high and take lots of gold out of the economy every week. If there is not enough gold in the economy then it isn't viable to make such a large bid on the guild trader, as you won't have any chance of making enough money back to justify the large bid, so bids go down and more money stays in the economy.