Auction House - Remove 7 item listing cap

[annewandering]

Maybe they could do the AH a little differently. If you could put up gear in one set of slots, food in another, tools in another etc. That way if there is a problem with more than 7 it would be broken into categories and not all go in AH as one set of sales items.

[GlobalVariable]

IIRC the original cap was 10 but some problem occurred so they did a quick fix to 7 and put that delay on viewing stuff

No joke. PS2 limitations.

Had nothing to do with PS2. The method of implementation made the back end (server interface) overly strained. Doesn't matter what anybody "said" or where anyone can or can't quote this or that from, I have seen multiple different excuses regarding this and I believe the truth is system currently in use was originally intended to be temporary and the programmer has long since been separated from the ffxi team leaving nobody knowing how to change/replace it outright only copy paste auction houses to town NPCs.


"ps2 limitations" has been overused so much that it has become a ffxi community meme, it is the new "working as intended"...

[ThaiChi]

@ Eek : This is totally off topic but dude, your sig is killing me! LOL

[Zyeriis]

I've googled and skimmed the dev panels for 2006 2007 2008 and vanafest 2010. The only thing regarding auction houses was a concern for lack of low level gear up on the AH. So far, nothing. All the replies I got were just "i saw it but i dunno where" or "i'm too lazy to look it up" and that doesn't work too well when trying to prove something to the general public. I did the work, and I looked at the websites and searched forums.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying you're LYING until I see proof. I'm just asking for source and even after trying to look for the source myself, I can't find it. How can you expect people to believe you when you shoot down anyone who's trying to believe you?

Also, you made that post while I was writing it. I read your post after I pressed reply. Just like I'm sure there will be posts after Alterin's when I finish this post.

I want to believe!

Damn, can't post pics

I only added that text after the quotes because of the inability to post unless you meet a certain amount of characters (quotes don't count toward this). I guess I should've said something else but, that's irrelevant. Anyway, you can't really expect us to go through years of notes to find that one single instance where they mentioned that the ps2 was part of the reason, especially not for such a miniscule point, can you? It is better to just take this as a truth (that they said it, not that what they said was the full scope of the problem) seeing as multiple people are claiming that it was said and that they read it. It may have even been a translation error or something but, again, irrelevant. One question out of years of questions isn't easy to find, and isn't really worth the effort to try and do so (not even close).

As for Expectations is it: Harder to believe what multiple people have claimed they witnessed or Harder to sift through hundreds of questions/pages to find the source?

[Kaida]

I'd rather it be 7 then have no AH because it crashes all the time again.

[RAIST]

I think the listing count was nerfed before it came to the US. Guides for crafting and such as far back as 2003 even mention that you are limited to 7 slots. It's been 7 since I joined in early 05, and I remember it being a hot topic even back then--and back then it was debated more along the lines of server lag if I remember right. I've seen it lags at times now with just 7 slots when I'm spread out my items on different AH's. Hopefully when they merge all the AH's most of that potential lag will go away and they can see to increasing the limit later (up to 7 queries for your GUID to one table are a lot faster then splitting up a mix of up to 7 across 4 tables)--but not likely until after the merge happens and they can verfiy that aspect.

Raist

[Kaida]

nerfed 07/09/2002. Good read. good memories

http://jpbutton.bluegartr.com/?p=157

Good old JP button

[Bigboy]

I kind of want a complete revamp of the AH to bring it more in line with other games, but even such a marginal improvement, such as increasing the amount of items you can post would be welcomed by me.

[DrDelicious]

nerfed 07/09/2002. Good read. good memories

http://jpbutton.bluegartr.com/?p=157

Good old JP button

thanks for doing the legwork

[KorPoni]

Maybe they could do the AH a little differently. If you could put up gear in one set of slots, food in another, tools in another etc. That way if there is a problem with more than 7 it would be broken into categories and not all go in AH as one set of sales items.

Great idea anne, I'd love to see them work on that after they merger all the AHs.