Bio Engineer Archive

Message Edited by droid327 on 03-25-2005 09:22 AM

Well i found that that instead of spending the time driving around searching for a vendor i spend it staring at the bazaar flipping page after page of junk stuff.

So the only thing good about it you save the fee to fix your bike(Shrug)

CL35 Rancor (AR1/35/60) [Stun/Intim] - by Cherry

ftw.

EDIT: added 'ftw.'

Message Edited by Zadokk on 03-25-2005 10:02 PM

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Zadokk wrote:
CL35 Rancor (AR1/35/60) [Stun/Intim] - by Cherry

ftw.

EDIT: added 'ftw.'

Message Edited by Zadokk on 03-25-2005 10:02 PM

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I go:

CLxx health/action/mind ARx (xx/xx/xx/xx resists or kxx% exx%) (notable special) skinname

for example...

CL10 4603/3402/2245 k14% Cu Pa

why?

CL is the 'cert' of the clone. it defaults to sort by this stat, since it comes first.

among the CL range, it will sort by H/A/M.

if it has AR1, that will bump it up in the sort over resist values.

specials? we all have differing opinions on what is useful. my vote is solidly on intim, with stun/blind/diz/crip also being useful.

the skin? we all know that the skin is either a concern only for movement speed, overall size, and cosmetics. if a customer likes the CL, the HAM, the resists, and the specials? I can probably sample it down and reskin it.

since I'm on TC, I don't much need to advertise the 'creator' in the name of the pet... your results will vary.

Message Edited by droid327 on 03-25-2005 11:06 PM

Another thing I've noticed about the new global search option is the number of people who enabled the search on a vendor that they use for storage space. When flipping through the pages of items I see a LOT of items for 999999999 credits.

I had a shock when I saw my own chef tissues for sale on someone else's vendor (they have my name in the name of the item). I recognized it as one of my regualr buyers and the price was a little more than double what he bought them from me for. This is when I realized that he's probably just storing them and not trying to markup and resell my tissues. If you're gonna use your vendor to store stuff, you can at least hide it inside a bag and make sure you set the price outrageously high so people know it isn't really for sale.

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Kelderek wrote:
Another thing I've noticed about the new global search option is the number of people who enabled the search on a vendor that they use for storage space. When flipping through the pages of items I see a LOT of items for 999999999 credits.

I had a shock when I saw my own chef tissues for sale on someone else's vendor (they have my name in the name of the item). I recognized it as one of my regualr buyers and the price was a little more than double what he bought them from me for. This is when I realized that he's probably just storing them and not trying to markup and resell my tissues. If you're gonna use your vendor to store stuff, you can at least hide it inside a bag and make sure you set the price outrageously high so people know it isn't really for sale.

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that soundsa little fishy.....i dont see why you wouldnt store items at 9999999999. Sounds like he is trying to scalp your tissues. What tissues were they, how many, and how much do you charge? you might be undercutting unintentionally

He seems like a pretty respectable guy, has a big chef business. He had about 5 full factory runs I had sold him, and they were all set to 4mil each even though some were better than others. The best set was probably BSN +86 and the worst one was +82. I can't imagine anyone paying 4mil for +82 BSNs, lol. I'm not too worried, but I may send him an email. Also, since they were travel packs, it is quite possible that they weren't full anymore, I didn't look at the contents count for them.

I think they need to let us look inside containers on vendors, and factory crates should be listed according to what they are crates of instead of a "factory crate" category.

I flicked through so many pages and found nothing that I liked. I examined all moderately sized stacks of meat (3000+) and found that they were either low quality or unreasonably priced. Methinks that I was beaten to it. I then went through all the flora. GOSH THAT TOOK AGES. Again, nothing there. There was some nice lok wild wheat for 4cpu, but since I had just made a batch of pet stims, saw little point. At this point I gave up. There were a large number of items constantly repeated. I think that over 70% of the stock listed on the screen had been repeated at least once.

In summary it is inefficient and a waste of time. It causes lag (had to wait 10 mins to bank tip someone) and is, frankly, USELESS until they improve the ability to filter items. Just think, they could have used this time to fix bugs but instead they just made more.

/thumbsup SOE