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Exchange Items not displaying

baronmakobaronmako Member Posts: 1 Arc User
edited August 2012 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
I have noticed for a while now that posted items in the exchange are not displaying. I even tested it by putting certain high priced items on for almost nothing, and they are still there. These bugs are getting annoying!

Is it the new season update that screwed everything up?
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  • grtiggygrtiggy Member Posts: 444 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    more lazy programming and they are still fighting amongst each other on who gets to fix it.
    "...just look at my track record for making the improvements that I said we would with the KDF and judge by that." - Dan Stahl
  • awolfe59awolfe59 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Items posted in the exchange appear just fine so long as you are using a search category button other than "All".

    Cryptic has almost no software quality control, but that's not an excuse for players to be lazy on how they use the exchange. There are many options for narrowing your exchange searches. Use them. Granted, the All button is seriously messed up, but if you learn how to properly use the exchange you'll experience fewer problems.
  • baronmakobaronmako Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Strange that, as i posted a tholian lock box for 1000 ec, and the lowest tholian lock box was gong for 40,000. So what your telling me is players would rather pay more for tholian lock boxes than my 1k bargains??? This was the test i did, as i know a lot of people are snapping them up, it was the obvoius choice to test, and guess what, it still doesnt appear no matter how i use the exchange.

    Your debate on using the exchange properly is very invalid. This is a bug, a major one, and it needs to be sorted. How many other players does this affect?
  • awolfe59awolfe59 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Tholian Equipment Requisition boxes are in the Reward Packs search category. Cheapest is 9k for a standard and 37.5k for an advanced. My point about learning to use the exchange very much applies.
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    We've had this bug now for a couple of months now. (5 or 6?) Previously you had to pick the rarity as well as the category of an item to see an up to date list while a general search would drop off both the newer items within the last few minutes as well as anything listed in the past after a few days.

    Now you have to pick the rarity as well as the category.

    As to how many players, drop exchange into the forum search and find out. ;)
  • lylechippersonlylechipperson Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    The bug with the exchange has been acting up on and off for a while now. Earlier today, I noticed it was working fine. I went back ten minutes later to post some contraband and suddenly it's wonky again.

    I don't understand how we've had numerous patches and it still hasn't been fixed.
  • awolfe59awolfe59 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    lylechipperson wrote: »
    I don't understand how we've had numerous patches and it still hasn't been fixed.
    Simple: Cryptic has lousy software quality control (QA) procedures.
  • lylechippersonlylechipperson Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    awolfe59 wrote: »
    Simple: Cryptic has lousy software quality control (QA) procedures.


    Great job they're doing. :mad:
  • varintufvarintuf Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I too have this problem, none of the items I post appear with the identical items already posted on the Exchange. At first I thought this may just be me not being able to view my own items, but I had a friend confirm the problem with a seperate search. So annoying to have items to sell and no way to sell them other than to stand on a corner in the First City shouting out ''Who wants it''.
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    varintuf wrote: »
    I too have this problem, none of the items I post appear with the identical items already posted on the Exchange. At first I thought this may just be me not being able to view my own items, but I had a friend confirm the problem with a seperate search. So annoying to have items to sell and no way to sell them other than to stand on a corner in the First City shouting out ''Who wants it''.

    Could read the thread that you;re posting in. :)
  • imperialmirrorimperialmirror Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    My exchange too is not showing my items. I have been giving items to a friend to sell and her exchange seems to be working just fine. I guess it only effects certain people.
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  • jadaqjadaq Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Still an issue, I posted the lowest price on following

    Tribble (zin) - None on market at time
    Tribble (har) - 4 others on market

    Searching ... Not Visable
    - Exact Name
    - Rarity
    - Personal Devices

    Searching ... Visable
    - Exact Name and Personal Devices
    - Exact Name and Personal Devices and Rarity

    As a minimum level of functionality it should appear under EXACT NAME search.

    FIX IT!
  • awolfe59awolfe59 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    The Exchange search algorithm operates by starting at the oldest items and working forward until items are found or the search hits a preset timeout cutoff. This creates a problem if searches are too broad in scope as the search will time out before it finds recently-posted items. Which is why you should only search by specifying the item's category (such as "Personal Devices") rather than "All".

    The Exchange is working as designed. It's just not working as players expect it to, and the code logic is TRIBBLE-backwards, as it should search starting with most-recent first. Why most recent? Because players using the exchange want to see the lowest prices, which are almost always the most recent entries. No one cares about items posted a week ago if there are cheaper more recent ones. Cryptic could relatively easily solve most of the exchange problem by simply reversing the search direction. But I suppose common sense is too much to expect from them.

    If players insist on using "All" (which is lazy on their part), then they need to understand how the exchange works and narrow the scope of what the search must weed through. Which means giving at least a partial name match and always specifying rarity. I have no problems finding any item that I wish to find, including items that I have just posted and that have no category of their own. People just need to learn how to properly use the Exchange as it is, despite how badly it has been coded. Screaming at Cryptic, demanding that they fix the Exchange, is pretty much a waste of time, as it has been "broken" for a very long time and Cryptic shows little interest in fixing it properly.
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