Trading Post Changes/Bugs (list)

Trading Post Changes/Bugs (list)

in Black Lion Trading Co

Posted by: Vashoom.8512

Vashoom.8512

These suggestions for minor changes either make the trading post easier to use, add more functionality or reduce traffic on the TP servers which could help reliability/speed.

Hopefully at least one of these suggestions or bug fixes will be taken into consideration by the arena net design team.

Please feel free to reply with your own suggestions for minor changes or bug fixes if you have some ideas.


BUG FIXES:

  • If you click an icon of an item in search results, the tooltip sticks to the mouse (see screenshot or try yourself)
  • Sometimes when buying an item then going back to the search list it removes one item from the bottom of the list (see screenshot below)
  • When clicking “my transactions” tab, then clicking “items I’m selling” to change the list to something else, many times nothing will happen and it will say “no results” or error about cannot connect to login servers. Sometimes clicking the dropdown menu again and re-selecting an option makes it to display the correct results

SEARCH FILTER:

  • Search by weight (or add filter tickbox “show usable”)
    BENEFIT: So you can find items that you can actually use! This has been asked many times since launch but still no official response to the suggestion
    <will reduce traffic on TP servers, less page scrolling>
  • Find new skins (or “search trading post” button from wardrobe)
    BENEFIT: Quicker than mousing over every result in TP searches looking for “skin locked” grey message

PICK UP TAB:

  • Auto stack duplicate items and gold from the “pick up” tab
    BENEFIT: To more easily see how much you have earned/bought in one go, and not have to click multiple times when collecting your goods.
    <will reduce traffic on TP servers>

BUYING ITEMS:

  • Remove/return backlog of all impossible buy orders (below vendor value eg; 1 copper)
    BENEFIT: To be able to “match highest buyer” for items where no buy orders exist above vendor value
  • Buy orders for a custom criteria (eg; any blue level 10-20 weapons)
    BENEFIT: Can help stabilize the market prices for all items of a certain type as many items have the same uses regardless of stats (for example if players just want to buy lots of cheap items to salvage for essence of luck),
    <will reduce traffic on TP servers>
  • Option to “add to buy order”
    BENEFIT: To ease adding to existing buy orders and reduce TP server traffic
    Instead of going to; my transactions, <load>, items I’m buying <load>, click item <load>, click item again in search <load>, place custom offer <load>, remember what you bid and try to find it in the list of buy orders.
    (Just think, if you can remove even one unnecessary loading of TP screens times that by how many players using the TP at any one time, this should have dramatic reduction of TP server traffic and increase performance)

SELLING ITEMS:

  • Faster placing items for sale
    BENEFIT: It is much quicker to post items for sale by right clicking an item, “sell at trading post”, than it is to use the “sell on trading post” tab and wait for this to finish. There really should be no difference in speed for using an easier interface to sell things

(bugs screenshots attached)

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Progress blocking bugs are top priority, but not all bugs are so easy to fix as others, be cool :)