Market Wards vs AH

[kukurumei]

You forgot that lovely little thing called testing, without which new MMORPG implementations tend to go horribly wrong.

Mind you, development-wise, adding the same feature for the market wards wouldn't probably take a minute more.

Probably...if they didn't have to hack market wards up so much. Still about 20 times more complex. I personally theorized they had to hack Wards to have 2 or databases because retainers database look up wasn't in the cards when they implemented. Essentially they made a fake AH database in front of the retainers, which was probably similar to players type.

As for testing... If you can test an excel program you can test a sql. That's why it's so mature. Everything already works, you're just doing "lookup".

There is very little actual code these days.

[Abriael]

Probably...if they didn't have to hack market wards up so much. Still about 20 times more complex. I personally theorized they had to hack Wards to have 2 or databases because retainers database look up wasn't in the cards when they implemented. Essentially they made a fake AH database in front of the retainers, which was probably similar to players type.

Whatever they had to do. It's done. The system is in place. The databade is working. Continuing to build upon it is more efficent than creating a completely new one and having to build upon it AGAIN.

As for testing... If you can test an excel program you can test a sql. That's why it's so mature. Everything already works, you're just doing "lookup".

There is very little actual code these days.

Again, you're seriously underestimating the problem. But that's nothing new.