I've played on other 3.63 client servers where you can set up a shop and then log off and your shop would remain open.  I think this would be a good alternative until the webmarket is open because some people don't have extra PC's to have a shop open and this is making it hard to buy and sell items.  

+1

No idea how this works, but I like it... I've never enjoyed the web market... Lineage was/is a grinding and finding the right time for bosses, specials and that sort. I remember on live walknig through oren shop town and knowing if I walked past a good deal it may be gone in 5 seconds or since people had to walk up it may stay for a long time. It's nice having to walk around and actually "Shop" not have some guy with 3 computers running with webmarket open scanning it without any effort needed.

Shops should be the main "market"

:p

I would have to clarify what is "client" and "server" side :p

And Why you open a "client"...

Use chat to sell/buy like old Beta... 

I'd argue that the market feature that is available on zelgo is both amazing and horrible for different reasons.

1) we're all adults now and not 14 year old highschool kids playing lineage. We have work and can't sit there and play for 12 hours a day watching people buy/sell on trade chat spam. No one wants to sit around selling 10000 nzels and ndais on trade chat 24/7, burning up cpu on your vm in afk mode and causing server latency when a web client could achieve the same goal.

 

2) Above is right. Half the fun is knowing the deal could be gone any moment. There wasn't only luck available in game hunting monsters, but luck in finding the deal. Being frustrated at not selling your A-S book for 80 zillion adena so you price lowered and someone freaked the fuck out because it was a slightly better deal than he was expecting.

the only thing not allowing offline shops is doing is putting those who don't have the means of running multiple clients at a disadvantage