Added everyone's suggestions (I think) to the first post regardless of whether I personally liked them or not. After all, the list is for Komodo, not me!

And after hearing feedback, I've removed the entire section that says "New players shouldn't have access to endgame items in the auction market" since two users raised a good point that rare items can be found by anyone (and auctioned by anyone), not just endgame players. This section included my "house groups" suggestion, which was very vaguely explained and seemed to be confusing some people.

However it's still important to me that we try to come up with solutions that can help prevent auction domination by veteran players. While PC sinks will help, those can only go so far because when we get down to brass tacks, there will always be players at different stages in the game, and thus anyone who isn't an endgame player is at a large disadvantage in the auction market. In order for auctions to be fair, either everyone would have to be at the same stage in the game, or auctions would have to be divided into two or more separate markets that can only be accessed based on each player's progress. Maybe I'm just not thinking outside the box, but I don't see another way to achieve auction equality.

@Shyads
Oh, I didn't think that you were criticizing Komodo or anyone else, so no worries there. And thank you for sticking around this long, as well as contributing your thoughts to help improve the game