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Fix the exchange! The improvements suck!

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Today "improvements" to the exchange actually made it a lot worse then before.

Pre patch it was possible to search for the newest items by selecting all and entering a suitable pattern after todays patch thats gone, instead we are now limited to 400 results max (with no way to progress!!) in a forced ascending order of name or price.

So as an example, if i want to search for a suitable tactical officer i'll see the first 400 matches ranging from 100 to 10.000 credits ( a price range thats often not even worth looking at in my opinion ) , after the 400th result the next button won't work anymore, searching again yields the same 400 results => no way to progress further.

The only way to get further would be to limit it by a race or the rarity.. since the race may not even matter to me but rather the abilities & traits i could limit it to very rare... but even then the results just go from 75.000 to 450.000 within the first 400 matches without the change to progress further... if i look for something decent it may easily be somewhere in between 1-6 mio.. so i'll never get to see what i want unless i make a list of all possible race combinations and search each of them separately (in the hope they are less then 400).

So the first thing im really missing after this change is an option to turn this new filter off to restore the original functionality, which yielded far more results.

And here a list of features that i would want to see ordered by priority:
- being able to turn the new sort options completely off.
- being able to progress past 400 results, like before.
- switch between ascending and descending filtering, this is really a must have!
- having a filter to see items by age (want to see newest or oldest ones).
- setting a price range, like i want to see results between 1.000.000 and 4.000.000

A couple of nice bonus features, not really a priority, but certainly nice to have:
- filtering bridge officers by gender
- filtering bridge officers by a specific ability (including ability rank)
- filtering bridge officers by trait
- filtering bridge officers by faction (kling/fed)
- add item ranks to the rank selector.. like "admiral IX or X", "admiral IX only", "admiral X only"
- a filter option for crafted goods (i.e. crafted kits seem to have visible models, while vendor ones have not), sadly theres no way to keep em apart on the exchange, a filter would help.

Also there seem to exist a couple of glitches with the results sometimes.. example:
pattern: eps; sort by price; any rank; any quality; item type: all.
i expected to see the 400 cheapest eps regulators as result. The result however shows 5, which don't seem to follow any logic why those 5 were selected to show up. Refining the parameters then shows way more.


Another example where this new 400 result limit + the sorting horrible fails: tribbles.

pattern: tribble; sort by name; any rank; any quality; => 400 tribbles at 1 credit each. with no way to browse to the higher priced ones...

pattern: zin); sort by name; any rank; any quality; => no items found! This must be a glitch, any quality should include common!

pattern: zin); sort by name; any rank; quality: common => finaly i see what i wanted to find!
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