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Important notice on renaming of vehicles
u472bmt
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Hello!
Sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere--I searched the other forums but could find nothing, and I wanted to post this before I went to work.
I recently noticed that many vehicle devices have been renamed to just list the name of the vehicle. IE a device that once said [Grav Bike Copperhead] now simply reads [Copperhead].
At first I welcomed the sleeker renaming of vehicle devices and was surprised cryptic went back to fine tune such detail (a new programmer getting the feel for things? Exciting!) However, this change makes all vehicles harder to find in the auction house. As a direct result, the price of older vehicles has plummeted due to the inability to connect demand to supply.
Previously you could just type in 'Bike' in the auction house search and all grav bikes for sale would show up. Likewise for Tanks, Exocets, and Chariots. Now however, it is impossible to find a vehicle in the auction house without directly looking up its name. A search must be done for each individual vehicle, which requires knowledge of the vehicle name and completely eliminates "Window Shopping" which is previously how some people discovered the existence of certain vehicles in the first place.
I feel that either a new category should be listed in the auction house ('Vehicles') or the renaming of vehicles should be reverted back to the bloated by search friendly 'vehicle type prefix' until an auction house category can be made.
Note: Hawkwings and VTOL-55's maintain their vehicle type prefix and subsequently, remain easy to sell in the auction house. And in case anyone is thinking the price fall is a natural result of newer vehicles being release, while there is always some degree of that, I've been told by 4 people in the past week that there are "No more grav bikes" for sale in the AH, only to search for their individual names and find them, plus I have seen 2 people in zone asking if the AH search was broken because they can't find vehicles. This tells me there is a problem matching demand to supply, which is what the auction house was put in place to fix in the first place!
Sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere--I searched the other forums but could find nothing, and I wanted to post this before I went to work.
I recently noticed that many vehicle devices have been renamed to just list the name of the vehicle. IE a device that once said [Grav Bike Copperhead] now simply reads [Copperhead].
At first I welcomed the sleeker renaming of vehicle devices and was surprised cryptic went back to fine tune such detail (a new programmer getting the feel for things? Exciting!) However, this change makes all vehicles harder to find in the auction house. As a direct result, the price of older vehicles has plummeted due to the inability to connect demand to supply.
Previously you could just type in 'Bike' in the auction house search and all grav bikes for sale would show up. Likewise for Tanks, Exocets, and Chariots. Now however, it is impossible to find a vehicle in the auction house without directly looking up its name. A search must be done for each individual vehicle, which requires knowledge of the vehicle name and completely eliminates "Window Shopping" which is previously how some people discovered the existence of certain vehicles in the first place.
I feel that either a new category should be listed in the auction house ('Vehicles') or the renaming of vehicles should be reverted back to the bloated by search friendly 'vehicle type prefix' until an auction house category can be made.
Note: Hawkwings and VTOL-55's maintain their vehicle type prefix and subsequently, remain easy to sell in the auction house. And in case anyone is thinking the price fall is a natural result of newer vehicles being release, while there is always some degree of that, I've been told by 4 people in the past week that there are "No more grav bikes" for sale in the AH, only to search for their individual names and find them, plus I have seen 2 people in zone asking if the AH search was broken because they can't find vehicles. This tells me there is a problem matching demand to supply, which is what the auction house was put in place to fix in the first place!
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