Market Boards - Increase Categories

Hey folks!

So... there are a lot--and I mean a LOT--of items in the Miscellany category of the market boards. It's... kinda difficult to search through them sometimes.

Therefore, I wanted to propose these new categories:

Chocobo -> This Category will contain both Chocobo Feed (Training and Color-Changing) as well as Chocobo Barding (Levin Barding, Tidal Barding, etc.)

Party Items -> This Category will contain consumable items that unleash a special visual/audio effect when used. (i.e. Confetti, Fireworks, Prisms, etc.)

Minions -> This Category will contain minions to add to one's Minion Guide.

I also suggest moving the following items to the following categories:

-Tallow Candle -> Reagents
-Beeswax Candle -> Reagents
-Exquisite Buttons -> Cloth

Thank you very much!

I would like to see better filters for food items, like filter only CP+ food, or only Det+ food instead of browsing through the entire list for food that fits my needs.

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Originally Posted by CassTristesse

I would like to see better filters for food items, like filter only CP+ food, or only Det+ food instead of browsing through the entire list for food that fits my needs.

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Better filters in general would be nice. When you're looking for hats for your Thaumaturge or Gladiator, you don't really want hats that give you CP or GP.

Yes there definitely should be a lot more filters and things should be organized better. There should also be a tab for items that have no use like the gobcogs and stuff.

A BIIIIG old +1 on this.
Maps should have their own too.

Would love to see sub categories especially in big categories like food or reagents.

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

So... there are a lot--and I mean a LOT--of items in the Miscellany category of the market boards. It's... kinda difficult to search through them sometimes.

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We agree that over time the amount of items that belong to the "Miscellany" category has been growing rapidly. As such, we're looking into introducing new categories to the market board to help sort out the miscellaneous. However, as this will require the market board user interface to be modified, actual adjustments may come further down the road.

I'm kind of mixed on this. one part of me agrees.. And the other part feels we need something else in game that we can look at. like recipes. i wish we could mouse over an item and figure out which category it belongs to.. and then know what to type in the search field when seeking that item. wait doesn't it say on the item what kind of item it is, on the tool tip?

okay scratch the second part then. so maybe instead of having to pull up an outside resource like a website(some people are on ps4 and don't have this game on their computer), maybe if we had an app on our smart phone to look up recipes we may not be high enough crafter to have in our recipe list. wait, don't we have Libra Eorzea a free app? okay scratch that then.

(posting on phone, it won't let me post more than 1000 characters, next part incoming.)

what about if someone doesn\\'t have a smart phone? maybe they can shout to ask in a city or ask in their FC/ls.

i don\\'t know. it feels like to me if someone REALLY WANTS that colored chocobo they\\'ll do the research. if they wanna keep themselves isolated and off the internet browser, why are they even playing an online MMO?

to me this feels like more of "please SE do it for me, i don\\'t WANNA play with the other kids."

if they add it later on cool, as long as they\\'re not skipping on other things more important to developing.

i feel like this is something we could look forward to in 3.0.

Totally agree with Op suggestions, since Chocobo items Minions that I can see, are gona be items that will continually added to the game.

+1 like from me OP
We need this sooner than later Bayohne lol

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

We agree that over time the amount of items that belong to the "Miscellany" category has been growing rapidly. As such, we're looking into introducing new categories to the market board to help sort out the miscellaneous. However, as this will require the market board user interface to be modified, actual adjustments may come further down the road.

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I will look forward to it. =P

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

We agree that over time the amount of items that belong to the "Miscellany" category has been growing rapidly. As such, we're looking into introducing new categories to the market board to help sort out the miscellaneous. However, as this will require the market board user interface to be modified, actual adjustments may come further down the road.

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More importantly, why are seeds, topsoil and fertilizer in the "Outdoor furnishing" category? this makes little sense and it took me (no joke) 5 months to actually find them without having to look them up in Lodestone or XIVDB and then searching by name, one by one.

I agree that this has a place in the "Housing" group, but could we please have a "Gardening" sub-category?

LoL ! I was about to suggest to add a category for gardening because I never found them in any category !! I always use search for them !!
Thanks for the tip !

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Originally Posted by Aura_Shurifon

LoL ! I was about to suggest to add a category for gardening because I never found them in any category !! I always use search for them !!
Thanks for the tip !

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Unfortunately a major pain in the butt with search is in a lot of cases you have to know the full item name and put that in. There's a lot of items that wont come up with partial, or one-of-the-words searches. :\

I do not know hard this would be from a development standpoint, but along with adding new/sub categories to the market board would it be possible to be able pick how much of an item I want to buy from stacks (2-99) of materials? I know FFXI had this feature and its very frustrating when you only need a small amount of something, yet people are selling stacks of 99 :P

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Originally Posted by Inzoum

More importantly, why are seeds, topsoil and fertilizer in the "Outdoor furnishing" category? this makes little sense and it took me (no joke) 5 months to actually find them without having to look them up in Lodestone or XIVDB and then searching by name, one by one.

I agree that this has a place in the "Housing" group, but could we please have a "Gardening" sub-category?

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hahahah that happen to me too XD

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Originally Posted by Levis

I do not know hard this would be from a development standpoint, but along with adding new/sub categories to the market board would it be possible to be able pick how much of an item I want to buy from stacks (2-99) of materials? I know FFXI had this feature and its very frustrating when you only need a small amount of something, yet people are selling stacks of 99 :P

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That would be an amazing feature for buyers and sellers alike!

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

That would be an amazing feature for buyers and sellers alike!

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Right! If any devs are still listening can you give us some feedback on how hard this would be to implement?

Thank You!

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Originally Posted by Levis

I do not know hard this would be from a development standpoint, but along with adding new/sub categories to the market board would it be possible to be able pick how much of an item I want to buy from stacks (2-99) of materials? I know FFXI had this feature and its very frustrating when you only need a small amount of something, yet people are selling stacks of 99 :P

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This was discussed here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-marketward.

You're asking to kill the whole-sale/retail-sale method.. and promoting RMT/BOT system, they will overflow the markets and ALL of us will end up buying most mats from them for 1 gil (cheap yes, fun no, game ruined).

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Originally Posted by Kuwaitum

This was discussed here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-marketward.

You're asking to kill the whole-sale/retail-sale method.. and promoting RMT/BOT system, they will overflow the markets and ALL of us will end up buying most mats from them for 1 gil (cheap yes, fun no, game ruined).

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How will this promote RMT? RMT will be there regardless if I "have" to buy the stack of 99 or if I can simply choose to buy 10 from that stack. In my opinion it would help alleviate flooding, because I no longer have to put 15 stacks of 5-10. I can put 2 stacks of 99 and people may buy what they wish.

Not saying your wrong, Just trying to understand your thoughts on it.

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Originally Posted by Kuwaitum

This was discussed here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-marketward.

You're asking to kill the whole-sale/retail-sale method.. and promoting RMT/BOT system, they will overflow the markets and ALL of us will end up buying most mats from them for 1 gil (cheap yes, fun no, game ruined).

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If we cite potential RMT abuse for the reason every time we can't have nice things, then we wouldn't have much of a game, would we? I mean heck, might as well remove the mail system, market boards, and ability to gather our own materials too.

All I know is this. When sellers have a full stack of items, they want to sell it all at the standard market price for 1 item x 99. But they can't because, a lot of the time, it is greatly discouraged as there are many items that buyers only need a small handful of, like raw gems (i.e. Ruby, Sapphire, Rubellite, etc.).

I know that, as a buyer, I personally would LOVE to only buy what I need from a stack of 99 HQ Fire Rocks.