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Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Eru - 02-04-2012
I've been talking to Taran about implementing something like this, but I thought it would be best to get players thoughts first.
Basically, the system would check all items in all vendors in the world, then generate an HTML file that could be loaded and searched by players on the site.
For example, it might show a single item as something like this, only with better formatting:
Iron Ingots (1000) - 10000 gold - 10 g/ea. - George - Britain (123,456)
So if you needed iron, you could see who has it, what the best price is and where to go get it.
The plus side of this is obvious. It's easier to find items you need, where to get the best price, and sellers can have their items found more easily without having to constantly update threads on the forums.
The negative side is a bit more subtle. For instance, people can easily get into wars of lowering their prices, which some people will not like, while others will. Also, by being able to see what IS in stock and what is NOT in stock, someone who devotes lots of time to watching the market and gathering what's needed can easily rake in tons of cash.
Both of those can also be seen as positive effects as well, though.
I'll leave a poll open here on whether you like the idea or not. If you're not sure yet, feel free to wait on voting until you've made up your mind based on the discussion as you can't change your vote once it's placed.
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Atlas - 02-04-2012
This would be awesome =] Would be quite a progressive move on our part
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Habibi Jones - 02-04-2012
I've seen this on other shards, it's BADASS...
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Taran - 02-04-2012
Could you PM me the link to those sites so I can check their layout?
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Doc - 02-04-2012
its good idea, i see on some russain shard, it help more. Habib u mean u see on abyss?
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Althos - 02-04-2012
I'm all for this
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Raziel_ - 02-07-2012
Wow!! This seems awesome!! But i have only one questio, what about bags that sells for the entire content? would you show the description of the bag in the site?
I think this system would allow us to increase economy!!
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Eru - 02-07-2012
Raziel_ Wrote:Wow!! This seems awesome!! But i have only one questio, what about bags that sells for the entire content? would you show the description of the bag in the site?
Well shit, we've hit a snag in our plans. With the way it is now, it would probably just show "bag". Maybe we could have it include the description and have all the containers go into their own section. Or have a hidden Container class in the <div> tags for each item. Need to do some planning.
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Taran - 02-07-2012
The more I think about it the more I realize that it would be so much better to use SQL and PHP. Then if a vendor sells a bag the bag would be clickable on the site and the contents of the bag displayed on a separate page.
Hmm we need to find someone who knows PHP and SQL that would be up for this task. Or hire someone to do it for us.
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Eru - 02-08-2012
I know enough SQL/PHP to build the site itself. I dunno how to insert/update the database using C# though.
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Raziel_ - 02-08-2012
Maybe displaying the description of the bag should be enough... at least every bag i see selling for the content has the items in the description... of course someone could use whatever description he wishes, but why would someone mess with his own vendor?
And you can always check for the contents ingame!
Web-Based Player Vendor Tracking and Item Finding - Taran - 02-08-2012
I could probably insert/update the database using C# Eru.