Offline trading system

[rose forge]

How it works:
Seller A sends Buyer B (who's currently offline) a trade offer and then logs off. When B logs on, they see A's trade offer and can accept it while A is offline. When A logs back in, they get a notification that B accepted/rejected their trade offer.

How to prevent people from spamming offers to everyone:
Whitelist system where B has to enter the username of A into a list before A can send B a trade offer. A can only then send B a trade offer (even if A doesn't whitelist B).

why?
imagine trying to trade with someone who's on the other side of the planet, or you're managing a shop and you don't have time to meet up with customers.
also since this only matters to discord users, maybe add a disclaimer that this is discord exclusive

[potent locust]

[regal lily]

This is actually a good idea

[dusty gazelle]

This is nice

[rose forge]

to whoever me, atleast let me know the reason why this suggestion is not good
by not good i mean why and not or

[potent locust]

It didn't mean bad

I

[rose forge]

[rough gate]

This has been rejected before, due to its complexity

[kind bay]

No it's just not possible to trade things offline

As far as I'm concerned, trading features for any game on ROBLOX require both players to be online

[patent fable]

Aw man this would be so skibidi

[arctic flame]

That’s what the trading server in discord is for

[normal stump]

Yeah, so you put the offers, go offline, then accept all offers next time you get online.

Can even make offline rent that way, where player can rent your vehicle while you're offline. To prevent any abusing, max rent period will be like 24h.

Will work kinda like Continue Flight, i guess, where you rejoin and get a popup about things that happened.

[arctic flame]

Or kinda

For that

[normal stump]

Discord has Character Limit that forces most traders to tuck stuff away in Spreadsheets, and still is a barrier of entry for an average Robloxian, especially if for some reason they cannot verify with a bot

It'll be so much easier to just mark stuff for sale than create and maintain a spreadsheet for it

[arctic flame]

I know, that’s why I said or kinda

[normal stump]

I see it like this:

• you open up your Hanger
• you mark planes for sale or as a rental, and set a price or auction
• you go offline, and the offers will be all put up
• players buy/rent your stuff, and on logging back into game, you receive the WP.
• if you log in back early, you can cancel the offers if no one bought them to get access back to planes and parts you put to sale.
• if you log in back while someone is still renting you plane, it'll just be unavailable and impossible to move or teleport to until rental period is up.

Benefit is obviously that a seller doesn't need to be online to sell a plane, and they have a guaranteed way to receive the WP the moment they log in

Since you won't be making new saves to the game while offline, it might be possible to work with your save data

Probably give a grace period of 2-5 minutes, tho, in case you get a disconnect or just forget something and try to instantly load back.

[orchid totem]

What happens if the recipient accepts the offer when the sender is flying the plane

[orchid totem]

this is far too complicated

[rose forge]

can make it so that planes/parts in trade offers cannot be used unless trade is cancelled

thing is, if both parties are able to play the game at the same time, they could've easily met up in one server using dms and use the pre-existing trade menu.

which is why this is called the 'offline' trading system

its to be used by someone who's not able to meet with their buyer for whatever reason

[rose forge]

^ kinda answers your point

i dont intend for this to be an in-game player marketplace, like i said before, only to be used if its too much of a hassle to meet with your buyer

but i understand if this isnt possible to implement

[narrow crystal]

can't you do that in-game already

[orchid totem]

and if the other person never cancels the trade?

[orchid totem]

no

you can’t trade if you’re flying

lol

[narrow crystal]

but like

what happens if you accept someone else's offer

then send them an offer with your a380

then switch to your a380 and fly it before they accept

[rose forge]

as in the seller never cancels?

or the buyer never accepts the trade?

[orchid totem]

then it cancels your trade offer

[orchid totem]

either one

[rose forge]

then the offer would still be there

if the buyer doesnt want it clogging up the outgoing trade menu they can just reject it

[orchid totem]

so it would never be canceled and thus you would never be able to fly the plane.

man just trade online or get a middle man

this is too complicated

[rose forge]

middle man probably works

[normal stump]

Ight, so you suggest me:
-put an offer online
-talk to a person that is willing to buy it
-log into game
-join the same server as the buyer
-set up recording software to make sure im not being scammed
-proceed the trade

this is too complicated - why can't i just have the 'sell' button

[orchid totem]

everybody else does that

and you cannot be scammed

you don’t have to record shit