[Dev 1251] Additional Market Search Features

[AtryxEtair]

I'm thrilled that we are finally getting this feature. I've gone through quite a few leveled with gimped gear (i.e ARC 30-28 with pretty much the same set) because going into the wards eats up my time.

But some features I'd like to see in the future, most likely 2.0, is a shopping cart feature and a wish list.

Shopping Cart: We can choose to select everything we want to buy in one transaction. Seeing all of our items laid out in a menu before any gil is actually exchanged. This would help in buying gear sets if you only wanna spend a set amount of money. Weighing the pros and cons of how much you really wanna spend on each piece. A lot of people do this on paper before hand already.

Wish List: A set list in a window that pops up every time you enter the wards that displays any items you have flagged and their current price, average or lowest. Average for things like mats cause you'd probably want to buy them in bulk and lowest for single items. Also the amount available. I know people do this on paper and in forums as well.

Does anyone think these would be useful enough to devote time and energy to? Or do they seem too superfluous?

[normalforce]

I like it!

Only other suggestion I could make would be for crafters. You select your final product and it populates the shopping cart with all the components needed to make it. Then you go through the cart and prune the materials you already have and don't need.

All the cheapest materials would be automatically selected so, in the end, all you say is, "I want enough materials for three synths" and it purchases it all for you, moving it into your inventory.

[AtryxEtair]

That's a great idea. To make sure all the mats were available instead of getting 100k in and realizing you just filled a bunch of inventory slots cause you can't get the rest of the ingredients. These could offer more opportunities for gil sinks as well.

[viion]

Wow some epic ideas, love the crafting one. That would be insanely handy.

[Orophin]

I'm not sure the shopping cart is such a great idea. If there's only one of an item available it won't be able to handle three people trying to get that item at the same time. Can't say this would happen all the time, but if an item is popular enough and the supply is very low, it's not fair that the first person that sees it can tie it up in a shopping cart, but then changes their mind on it and it goes back to the available sale inventory. I think the first come, first serve environment works better and that this idea would be hard to implement.

As for the wish list, that kind of works now with how you can set your retainer to buy an item for you. It would need an interface so that people can view all the retainers looking to purchase items and a way to specify to buy something at a x price or lower.

[normalforce]

I'm not sure the shopping cart is such a great idea. If there's only one of an item available it won't be able to handle three people trying to get that item at the same time. Can't say this would happen all the time, but if an item is popular enough and the supply is very low, it's not fair that the first person that sees it can tie it up in a shopping cart, but then changes their mind on it and it goes back to the available sale inventory. I think the first come, first serve environment works better and that this idea would be hard to implement.

That's assuming that just the act of placing an item in your shopping cart would lock it out.

If I were designing the system, I wouldn't have the item tied up just because it is sitting in a shopping cart. Only when I click on the purchase button would the system verify that everything was available and nothing had changed.

If something had changed, e.g. an item was no longer available or a price had changed, it would return the player to the shopping cart and highlight the changes, asking the player if they still want to proceed with the transaction.

[Plague]

Meh, good Ideas but I think that's going a bit far for SE technology... I think I'm getting old, or you new gen of gamers are getting lazier and lazier...Don't even want to buy stuff one by one anymore! lol

[viion]

Meh, good Ideas but I think that's going a bit far for SE technology... I think I'm getting old, or you new gen of gamers are getting lazier and lazier...Don't even want to buy stuff one by one anymore! lol

Its convience! So yes you getting old! me too :'(!

But that is just life... its why we drive cars and not walk, its why we shop online and dont go out, and its why we download movies and ignore the cinema. Humans are lazy!

[AtryxEtair]

Well we do have this stuff in real life when shopping, isn't fantasy supposed to be generally better? haha

My mother works as a virtual assistant from her home and sets up online shopping carts for clients. And she's over 50. I know website format is to online game server structure what retarded bears are to abstract meditations on quantum physics. But...come on....lol. "Outside technological boundaries" is a bit of a lame excuse.

[Seif]

Hmm please don't tie these ideas to useless 3d models and I like it. How about suggestions tab? We see you have 3 of the for materials to craft X or we see you're missing X gear feom your armor set here's the item for sale. Click to see price histories.

I love it when posters like the op sometimes dare to ask something new and innovative as opposed to expecting SE to fill in the bare bones basic features of an mmo (that admittedly do need their own posts too).