I like most ideas of improving the auction system.

Tho i would like to add a bit to it:

Snipeguard timer, Minimal Bid and Starting bid HAVE TO be visible to inform buyers about these.
Snipeguard timer is the more important one here because its a huge difference from having a 10min timer to a 2min one, as you would need to be prepared to bid again should someone try to snipe you.

Minimal Bid, of course, to check if you have the funds for it and starting bid is good to know anyway, unless its a "forced bid", as in you cant bid higher than this as the first bid on said item.



But the "housing system" thing seems more a hassle and problem to me. It would force a player top either stay in thier tier or move upwards, regardless how comfortable you find yourself in your current system.
And with Midtier being the most common one, as bigger houses a super expensive, going up acually prevents you from using the auction house for what you want.

What adds to it is that finding items is free for everyone, i dont need to be a highlevel player to find an rare egg or rare item, so limiting the auction house makes no sense and wouldmprevent already big players from downgrading when they realized that thier current house was the worst thing they could ever gotten since they would be locked out now.

Sure, it all would encourage the forum more to bypass the whole auction house & even the usershops, as thats a free for all, but without a search system there, we would end up having the same problem again.