When you go to sell a stack of items in the trading post it now defaults with the quantity slider set to max amount so you can instantly sell a whole stack at once.
Not sure if this was changed the same day or earlier, but I noticed when buying an item it defaults to the lowest sell price so you can buy it instantly without having to manually select it. I think the new TP had it default to the highest buy order so you had to manually select lowest sell order to buy instantly, otherwise you end up placing an order and having to hope someone sells it for that much.
Thanks Anet for the improvements, but next time please include this stuff in the patch notes. For things like this that players ask for it would be nice if we knew about it.
I wasn’t aware that this happened, Charrbeque. (Dang I <3 that name!)
As you know, we pride ourselves on having very detailed update notes; it’s part of the transparency policy we try to exhibit across the board. But sometimes there are so many working parts — or working teams — that something gets missed in the notes.
I just talked to two folks in QA and with some team members who work on the Trading Post. This is a new element, as you pointed out, but I don’t know precisely when it was implemented.
Thanks for posting to make us aware that we might want to add to the notes, and thanks for your positive reaction to the change!
I checked with the developer and yes, that was part of the September 22nd build. I don’t know that I should go into published notes and add a string about that, but you are right, it was added on that date (and I agree, it’s a positive that I would have loved our players to see. )
Every single major update has several changes not mentioned in the update notes though.
Yes, and I’m asking about that. I’m not new to ArenaNet, but I’m rather new to having greater Update Note visibility, and I’d like to understand things better.
Every single major update has several changes not mentioned in the update notes though.
Yes, and I’m asking about that. I’m not new to ArenaNet, but I’m rather new to having greater Update Note visibility, and I’d like to understand things better.
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I checked with the developer and yes, that was part of the September 22nd build. I don’t know that I should go into published notes and add a string about that, but you are right, it was added on that date (and I agree, it’s a positive that I would have loved our players to see. )
im pretty sure that the only thing holding you back in such a venture would be someone at anet, and not public opinion…
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This was not actually fixed as part of the patch(possibly a reason why it was not in the patch notes). If I remember things correctly. This was fixed before the patch but after the previous ones.
Oh the wonders of a web-based trading system.
On a side note here were also 4 other fixed deployed around the same time.
The price per unit automatically increases when you increase your quantity (vs having to check additional orders when increasing quantity.)
When buying default is now lowest seller(vs buy order)
Devs are pretty scatterbrained when it comes to some fixes, but it can easily get hard to manage all of them. For non-devs, imagine if you had to write a line of documentation every time you fixed a typo at work.
There are a ton of things that people have asked for and that the devs have successfully adjusted or fixed…and never made it to the patch notes. Gaile, please help them take their well-deserved bows.
(The wiki tries to document this if people notice, but a lot of times folks don’t, especially if it’s something that’s intermittent.)
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Devs are pretty scatterbrained when it comes to some fixes, but it can easily get hard to manage all of them. For non-devs, imagine if you had to write a line of documentation every time you fixed a typo at work.
This made me laugh. Sometimes as a dev that is exactly what you have to do. Ugh stupid semicolin.
I wasn’t aware that this happened, Charrbeque. (Dang I <3 that name!)
As you know, we pride ourselves on having very detailed update notes; it’s part of the transparency policy we try to exhibit across the board. But sometimes there are so many working parts — or working teams — that something gets missed in the notes.
I just talked to two folks in QA and with some team members who work on the Trading Post. This is a new element, as you pointed out, but I don’t know precisely when it was implemented.
Thanks for posting to make us aware that we might want to add to the notes, and thanks for your positive reaction to the change!
Praise and a compliment on my name from Gaile Gray? My heart just melted.
This was not actually fixed as part of the patch(possibly a reason why it was not in the patch notes). If I remember things correctly. This was fixed before the patch but after the previous ones.
Oh the wonders of a web-based trading system.
On a side note here were also 4 other fixed deployed around the same time.
The price per unit automatically increases when you increase your quantity (vs having to check additional orders when increasing quantity.)
When buying default is now lowest seller(vs buy order)
im pretty sure that the only thing holding you back in such a venture would be someone at anet, and not public opinion…
Or just developers being well….. developers.
In regards to the couple changes I noticed, Gaile Gray herself had in fact confirmed those changes were made on the date of the patch I mentioned, if you bothered to read her posts in this thread.
Changes I mentioned:
1. The quantity slider defaulting to max quantity when you go to sell something
2. When buying an item it defaults to the lowest seller so you can buy instantly
Changed in the September 22 patch.
I can understand they get busy and can’t include every little detail in the patch notes. What I would like to see is changes made based on player feedback being added to the patch notes so people are aware when it was fixed. This would prevent players who don’t notice the changes from continuing to request it only to eventually be told it was already fixed, basically the stuff that Anet is aware of being the most important to us. If ya fix it, please let us know if possible. For minor stuff that nobody talks about a lot and stuff that isn’t as important to players, I can understand that stuff being left out of the notes if needed.
The September 22 patch notes only mentioned that free trial accounts would be prevented from entering WvW maps, so I found it odd they didn’t include the nice changes to the trading post. If the patch notes were longer I can see them leaving out something here and there.
It is nice to see Anet doing better with player feedback being taken into consideration and they are communicating a lot more with us. Overall it’s a major improvement to the quality of life in the game.
Devs are pretty scatterbrained when it comes to some fixes, but it can easily get hard to manage all of them. For non-devs, imagine if you had to write a line of documentation every time you fixed a typo at work.
This made me laugh. Sometimes as a dev that is exactly what you have to do. Ugh stupid semi-colin.
invisible wall placed in Sparkfly Fen to stop players from jumping onto the ruins beside Tequatl.
;)
Reminds me so much of the Fairly Odd Parents episode from back in 2001 where the angry holiday mascots planned to banish Santa to the imaginary date of February 33rd.
I wonder if you saw that episode years ago too and is why you chose the “33rd” as your imaginary date.
Also, I love reading patch notes. The more in them the better. However, I do understand why certain things are intentionally not included, how some things can be missed in being included, as well as it not being very meaningful use of time and resources to include absolutely every change made. Believe me, I’d love everything (right down to corrected typos) to be included, but I’ve resigned to the fact that it is an unrealistic desire, sadly.
