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Suggestion for AH: Price per Item
hercules125
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Suggestion 1:
Currently, the sorting on the AH is marginally working, and it's difficult to find items cheapest to most expensive.
It would be nice if they would add new sortable "Price per Unit" columns for both buyout and current bid.
Suggestion 2:
While some people may find it useful to buy large stacks of enhancements/consumables, i usually only need either 1 or a very small handful. Allow the seller to specify if they will allow partial sales to occur, then allow me as the buyer to buy only X out of how many are in the stack.
Currently, the sorting on the AH is marginally working, and it's difficult to find items cheapest to most expensive.
It would be nice if they would add new sortable "Price per Unit" columns for both buyout and current bid.
Suggestion 2:
While some people may find it useful to buy large stacks of enhancements/consumables, i usually only need either 1 or a very small handful. Allow the seller to specify if they will allow partial sales to occur, then allow me as the buyer to buy only X out of how many are in the stack.
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Sorting works flawlessly in-game, I concur that on Gateway it can be a little wonky, but generally works well. If you want to know the actual price per unit in a stack, open your calculator app (as every computer has one) and simply divide the price by the stack count: Stack of 10 for 1000AD ... 1000/10=100.
Granted: it would be neat if the auction house displayed per-item prices. But that would be a lot of work for the Devs and I'd rather they keep working on bug-fixes and new content and easy-to-add features, rather than little things like this.
This is actually one of the EASIEST to program quality of life improvements. After all
can be trivially done by a computer too.
So comparatively easy to imperilment, and a nice quality of life improvement seems to be a win-win to me....
Precisely. Such as the calculator that came with your computer. That's a freebie. However, paying a Developer to do it costs a lot of money, time and resources. So: it's your company, do you spend the money to implement this kind of feature that is so simple for your customer to do for themselves, or do you steer that resource (your Developer) toward more meaningful return on investment?
Just playing devil's advocate on this, you decide.
Of course: if the developer is sent in there to do something of more significant value and implementing this kind of feature is along the way with minimal impact on the Devs time, then most certainly do it!
Then again, if you've actually seen the code and know just what to do...
Of course, by the same argument unless you've actually seen the code and know that there is a special reason why this is difficult...
The calculation is trivial and adding another column to the AH is simply reusing the same functionality that they already have.
No more need to buy tons when you only need 5...
I like it
NOW: select item_name, quantity, seller_name, some_function(expiry_time), bid_amount, buyout_price
from some_tables_with_AH_stuff where <filters>
MODIFIED: select item_name, quantity, seller_name, some_function(expiry_time), bid_amount, buyout_price, buyout_price/quantity
from some_tables_with_AH_stuff where <filters>
That's probably the biggest part of the "hard work" required, if they did their code right :P
I could be mistaken, but that doesn't look like C+ or C++ or C# or even VideualBasic, COBOL, Fortran, Basic, Logo or any other low-level programming code. Rather, it looks like some kind of Excel spreadsheet or database sorting filter. Are you sure it is what you think it is?
In order to help the Devs, you first need to figure out which language the Neverwinter Devs are using, possibly one of the languages from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
Then, you'd need to offer the existing implementation of the language along with your simple modification that will then implement this oh-so-important feature. I look forward to your (or anyones) result here.
-Muahahahah-
It's simply SQL. Whatever the language they use, I suppose there is a function that populates a table in the UI using the results of a database query (stored in a database procedure). Adding a single column to the query would be no big deal, whatever DBMS they use.
Understood. That would pull up the results, BUT, there is low-level code to write the game client, where the additional column needs to be added, else what good is the data if it cannot be displayed? That, or only available at the Gateway PHP web site. This is my point: it's not in the fetching of the data (that is simple, I agree) - it's in programming the game client to present that data.
If they had to write code to micro-manage every single column of data it would be a very bad design for a UI (but that would also explain why they didn't do so already).
I'm no expert (several years passed since I coded anything), but if I had to show tables in a game client (or whatever else), i'd absolutely want to have a procedure that fills the available space depending on the actual data passed to it. 3 columns of data? Stretch it all the way. 5 columns? tighten it up a bit. 20 columns? it would be pretty illegible, but, hey, i can handle it.
Considering some games (namely WoW) have very versatile APIs for players to design their own pieces of interface, having hard-coded UI in 2014 seems a terrible idea.
The easier request here might be to ask players to please list by stacks of ten, or twenty etc.
It seems somewhat player LAZY to insist the game is modified rather than use the computer's calculator. I'm on the Devs side on this. They can spend time doing more useful features. (HEY! How about that neck slot item for fashion clothes? : shifty look: Tangent... http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?645541-Suggestion-Neck-Slot-for-Fashion-Items )
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Constantly switching to desktop just to do something that should have been done when they first designed the AH? :P
Add an ingame calculator then (as in Eve Online)! Or better:
1) Fire whoever designed the AH & Mail interface
2) Borrow the UI personnel from CCP/Eve Online
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!
:cool:
New features? This thread is about an incomplete feature.
I have to agree with angrysprite on this one! This is your problem with Neverwinter? The AH already does a good job of displaying in unit cost order, it is not the DEVs job to aid in bad math skills of the player. Now if the AH was one of the major issues with Neverwinter (which it is by far not one of those), it would be to make the search bar more capable of partial searching items rather than exact names of items. LOL
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Totally not true. First, sorting is far from flawless. A lot of players who sell 9000 stacks of the same items always stay on top of the first page even when other players sell the exact same items for a lower price. Second, it is extremely easy to add an unit price column.
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