/ah : Auction House is not reachable from your current location (base)
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Alodarn,
Posted on: 2011-09-16 22:55 in Bug Report Forums
This was the case in Beta, I recall reading that it was intentional because accessing the AH from a Base would be too server-intensive.
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Not a bug, sadly.
The /ah apparently downloads the entire auction inventory to your current instance server. This was described as a performance problem for the instance servers, which they have been trying hard to improve to do things like get rid of the valley of lag in the ITF. Since our bases are essentially "missions" hosted on the instance servers, this means we lost it in bases.
And trust me, I'm very, very sad about losing it in bases.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
I was wondering why I couldn't access /ah in a mission the other day. This explains it.
Argh! I've been looking forward to the /ah command specifically to check prices of stuff stored in my base so I can figure out what is worthwhile to clear out without having to pull out everything and leave my base a zillion times to check prices. I mean, at least all I have to do is exit my base and check it just outside the base portal, but yeah...that just made the /ah command *far* less useful to me - redside it isn't that far to go from the base portal to the CaD market, blueside it isn't that far between base portal and markets in some zones.
Please rethink this? Is there any way to put the bases on different instance servers than the mission instances to make it less impacting on missions while still allowing access from bases? I can live without it in missions if I have to, but not allowing it from bases just seems to kill one of the most useful areas to use it (in my opinion of course).
Again though - I do understand the performance hit consideration and I appreciate you trying to make missions smoother, I just wish bases weren't caught in the mission/instance sweep.
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Yeah, I noticed this too, figured it was intentional. I don't mind sitting in the university to craft/sell though.
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Yep, this is intentional and ******, but it was needed to improve server hamster miles per carrot or whatever.
Well, if you have it, /vault still works in instances... sadly, that only works with salvage. I rather liked being able to quickly stash a few enhancements/recipes on the market when they filled in the middle of a mission. Oh well, back to deleting scores of temps that always clog up my inventory.
(psst - devs; market interface object for bases.)
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You realize that would still come with the same problem of loading the market inventory onto the instance server, right?
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Originally Posted by Major Cuddles
(psst - devs; market interface object for bases.) |
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Don't forget: Ordinary crafting stations are in the RWZ base, too.|
Originally Posted by Demobot
Yeah, I noticed this too, figured it was intentional. I don't mind sitting in the university to craft/sell though.
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
You realize that would still come with the same problem of loading the market inventory onto the instance server, right?
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I'm guessing we'd all do everyone a favor by accessing the Store from the character select screen rather than from within any instance in the game, especially if you plan to do a lot of shopping.
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I loved it for this too, but it seemed a bit exploity if you used it the other way around. Not that I minded - indeed, I gleefully leveraged it. Having an multiple 10-stacks of damage inspirations handy for a Master of Lambda trial before they adjusted Marauder's damage resistance was pretty useful.
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Originally Posted by Major Cuddles
Well, if you have it, /vault still works in instances... sadly, that only works with salvage. I rather liked being able to quickly stash a few enhancements/recipes on the market when they filled in the middle of a mission. Oh well, back to deleting scores of temps that always clog up my inventory.
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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Understable given the origin of the problem, but still massively disappointing that the one place where you really really want to use /ah is the one place you can't use it 
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I agree. Hopefully the devs will find a way to streamline how much data the market sends so we can have this functionality back.
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Originally Posted by Dollymistress
Understable given the origin of the problem, but still massively disappointing that the one place where you really really want to use /ah is the one place you can't use it
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Well, if we can't have /ah in the base, why not bring the mountain to us ...
Any way we can get access to our stash in the base while in the AH?
Sommat like :
/storage01
/storage02
/storage03
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/storage99
Hell, I'd pay points for it 
Hopefully this is unintentional, because my #1 place for using /ah was my base. When I do it now I get "The auction house is not reachable from your current location."