Business And Economy Archive
Thread: Suggestion on revamping public bazzaars
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Talmor1
Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:08 pm
#14
I really want to stress again and agree with the previous poster. The bazaar's item max and monetary cap is perfect. Imagine of you could post as many items as you wanted. How much more cumbersome it would be to search for items. Some categories have hundreds of items listed. Some servers even top into a thousand. It would squeeze out those players that just want to sell a few items on the bazaar. Those that sell in large bulk quantities would push out all those small lot posts some people (especially non-crafting professions/non-looting professions).
Having the monetary cap removed will just introduce too many people undervaluing there items. Nobody would want to interact with other players.
And here is the biggest point I wanted to make. Improving the UI on the Bazaar is a wonderful idea. Before we even consider increasing the item limit or the monetary cap, a revision to the Bazaar UI is what we need.
Ideas to improve the Bazaar UI:
1) Allow the ability to SEARCH for multiple paramaters. Not just sorting.
2) More help on the menu tree for items to search. There should be a help button that explains what each of these mean. Maybe a query button. Not just general UI help on navigation.
The logistics of being able to search, it would search the item description for the key words. However, I am not sure how feasible this is going to be. Because, currently it accesses a database and it is not loaded on the computer, you are loaded on to their computers. This means that when you search, it could take a long time (as opposed to like what happens when you search on Google.) The other issue is that there is such a wide range of variety when it comes to what a person could make that it would be difficult to devide this into categories. They would almost need a separate server for bazaars.
The query item could be a better hot fix for people wanting to know where they should go to get items.
For instance, you wanted to know where pistol weapons are, you would type that in and it would spit out where you could go.
Also, it would be great if some items were cross-referenced. In particular, a person looking for factory crates would also be able to find it in the category they go under.
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