New UI: A Mockup

[Vesper]

Whether we are keeping the Market Wards or eventually getting an AH is something that will be argued about back and forth. Some like the wards, some want AH. I think most of us can agree the search features are severely lacking.

This is a UI mockup I made as an idea for a market search revamp. The current functionality is horrible and thats being kind.

[SIZE="5"]Here is the UI Mockup[/SIZE]

Note, this UI would be accessable from not only going to the market wards entrance, but from your PERSONAL retainers as well and from your main menu. If using the UI from the main menu it would lock out all features except for features of your actual characters inventory and bazaar. No bazaaring retainers/market searches while out in the field. But you could access your characters stuff from it.

Search
Items need to be searchable via text as well as drop down menus. The search bar would have boxes to toggle whether you wanted to search active listings, sold listings, by item name and my seller name.

Class/Job Dropdown
This dropdown would allow you to choose to search for items based on job/class.

Item Type
This dropdown would be specific to NON equip items only (Materia, Raw Materials, Crystals etc)

Item Slot
This dropdown would allow you to search equip items slot (Body, Head, Legs, Feet, Gloves, Accessories etc)

All drop downs would allow you to check off whether you want NQ or HQ versions of the item to appear in the search.

Stat Checkboxes
These boxes would allow you to further narrow down gear, only showing gear that has at least one of the stats you choose on it.

Sellers Bazaar Message
Players would be able to set a bazaar message via the UI. (this message would appear when a search result was highlighted or moused over)

Search Results
Results would show the name of item, quality, quantity the item is being sold in, the price of the quantity, the sellers name [retainers] and the ward it is located in (forgot to add that to the mockup!)

Item Info
A box with all the items info would appear as well after you highlighted or moused over the item in the search result.

Tabs
Not pictured, but there would be tabs for the following [Market Search][Selling][Repairs][Seeking].

• Market search is the tab I spent time mocking up.
• Selling would be a tab that would show your personal bazaar, retainer 1 bazaar and retainer 2 bazaar in three separate columns. Sorta like [PB][R1][R2]
• Repairs would be the same as the above Selling tab in layout, but with repairs instead. MONEY WOULD NOT TAKE UP A SPOT IN YOUR BAZAAR! Also, with changes allowing the player to ask for repairs WHILE WEARING their armor is a must.. I mean really.
• Seeking would be the same as the selling tab, but with items you are seeking instead. You would be able to list items you want to buy and offer up MULTIPLE items for trade, or gil and items. The reward for the server would NOT take up space in bazaars. You could list items you don't have in your inventory as seeking (Lets implement a database FTW! You would also be able to list as many to buy as you want within the systems/inventory limitations)

[KiniRyris]

wow, you put alot of work into that. It looks great, it would be nice if they added this, it would make alot of the "OMG WHERES AH >.<!"

but yeah thumbs up!

[Vesper]

wow, you put alot of work into that. It looks great, it would be nice if they added this, it would make alot of the "OMG WHERES AH >.<!"

but yeah thumbs up!

Haha, yeah I was bored tonight so I decided to play around with PS and do this mockup lol. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Tibian]

I like it. I think XIV could use something functional like this. It also doesn't necessarily require an AH implementation -- and if they do expand on linkshell owned market districts or even vendors in linkshell halls, I think this would come in handy.

Furthermore, this system should read everything from all three city wards and tell you what city it is located in.

[Amineri]

It looks great, Vesper!

A few practical suggestions, however, based on my own preferences / opinions :

1. Include an option for searching for items being sought (i.e. buy orders) as well as repairs being sought. Near the "Search Active", "Search Sold" area. Perhaps make this a drop down instead of radio buttons.
2. Instead of radio buttons for the slotted materia, I'd suggest five drop down menus. Since the five materia limit is likely to stick around for a while, but more materia are likely to be added, a drop-down menu is more easily extensible.
3. As a precursor to a mail system, perhaps an option (which would mirror the 'seller note') that would allow a player to leave a message with the retainer for the player could be added. Naturally, the player would need to have the option to disable receiving messages if so desired.

[Estellios]

While it's nice to have a super in-depth menus, that menu looks really daunting at first. I'm not sure what the stat options on the left are for (I'm guessing filters or sort options?).

If I was a new player it would make my head spin, so I think it would be better to hide that section in its own menu, along with a button for search options (Search by or Search active/sold) at the top.

I don't think the seller's bazaar message needs to be displayed all the time either and it would allow for more items to be listed and get rid of some dead space. If popup help is being implemented how I think it is (I'm unclear on what exactly it is, someone who has played other MMOs with it please enlighten me) I think the bazaar message should be displayed that way.

[AlphaDragoon]

wow, you put alot of work into that. It looks great, it would be nice if they added this, it would make alot of the "OMG WHERES AH >.<!"

but yeah thumbs up!

Never played FFXI, so I just went and read up on AH...screw that "you don't see what the price is so you just guess and hope you paid enough to buy it, even if you paid way too much" thing it used. The simple yet effective trade broker Aion (where you just see what the price of an item is, buy it and go about your day) has would be awesome.

Nice mockup though, OP. That would be a lot more functional than what we have now.

[Sephr]

Never played FFXI, so I just went and read up on AH...screw that "you don't see what the price is so you just guess and hope you paid enough to buy it, even if you paid way too much" thing it used. The simple yet effective trade broker Aion (where you just see what the price of an item is, buy it and go about your day) has would be awesome.

Nice mockup though, OP. That would be a lot more functional than what we have now.

Well, it had price history so... Overpaying was never really an issue.

That said, I'd prefer a proper AH over that weird thing.

[viion]

Its a nice attempt but i think its overly complicated and very ugly due to SE UI is just ugly in general but things seem a bit all over the place. A lot more work needs to be put in to make it look a lot nicer and more modern, both with the layout and the graphics themselves.

[RemVye]

Needs moar radio buttons imo... def not enough radio buttons


Ever hear of , less is more or my favorite KISS OFF! Keep It Simple, Stupid Or Face Failure


EDIT:

Go to the 2nd page of this thread and look at the better - redone version that someone did.