Guild Wars 2

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I would like to see some changes to the Black Lion Trading Company interface to make it more user friendly. I’ve been using it for a while and find some of it quite annoying, time consuming and very inefficient. Here are my ideas on how to make the TP more pleasurable and fun. Please add like/dislike on each idea and your own comments.

1. First off, the TP need some navigational buttons other than the tabs to the left, i.e. Back, Forward and Home. It’s somewhat annoying when you’re looking at My Transactions-tab, clicking an item to see the bids and then can’t go back to My Transactions without clicking another tab first, and that’ll reset the view. Users who want to increase the bid on an item they already bid on might find this an issue.
2. Why reset the view when user is navigating the tabs? I.e. when browsing the TP, I sometimes check on other tabs (like Pick Up or My Transactions) for a quick update. Navigating back to the TP resets all filters and shows the Top X Items-view. With the poor navigational options in TP it can take time to find back where I were. If we add a Home button there would be no need to reset the view when navigating the tabs, right?
3. Having First, Prev, Next and Last as the only listing navigation is fine, unless you have 50 or more items to browse through. Using filters to narrow down the search may filter out the ones you want, thus not an option. By adding Prev 10 and Next 10, Prev 100 and Next 100 and so on when needed will speed up browsing. With the slow TP, I would call a better list navigation a gift from the six gods. Also needed in My Transactions-tab as there are no filters there. I may only have 4k items in my Sold transactions, guessing there are quite a few with 10 times that and a lot more. Searching for a transaction 2 weeks ago takes forever.
4. Just as good to add the idea for a search filter in My Transaction. Maybe someone would like to see the history sells of one item.
5. If I’m buying/bidding something on the TP, I would like to see if I currently have bids on the very same item. When selling on the TP you see the “Add to my lowest listing” option, maybe something similar could be added to the buy page. Or use the current list of orders to highlight the ones that are “mine”, in parentheses how many items. Or a quick link to My Transactions, filtering items (see 4) to the ones I’m interested in, so I can remove my previous bids and more. Also a quick link to Sold and Bought to quickly check my previous transactions on the current item would be a bonus.
6. A change I would like in the TP filter interface is to see/use the Reset (filter) button without having to Show Filters, also let the reset button be greyed out if no filters are selected so you can quickly see if there are filters affecting the result. Alternatively add an indicator that there are filters
   active.
   These must be old ideas but I add them anyway.
7. Better filters in TP. At least give us the ability to filter between heavy/medium/light armors. Ultimately, add filters for stats and maybe a price range.
8. I would like to have the ability to use the cash in the Pick Up-tab for TP use. Why? Cuz I’m lazy and greedy, just as everyone else.

TLDR post

TP ideas, add likes/dislikes on each:

1. Navigational buttons: Back, Forward and Home.
2. Skip filter reset at navigation.
3. Add list navigation (to the standard First, Prev, Next and Last): Prev 10 and Next 10, Prev 100 and Next 100 and so on.
4. Search filter in My Transaction.
5. Add links to My Transaction on TP Buy-page or list your current bids.
6. Move reset button and indicate filter is active in TP.
7. Better filters in TP. Heavy/medium/light armors. Stats and price range.
8. Use the cash from the Pick Up-tab for TP use.

i like would like to see these implemented as well especially number seven, would be a great change.