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Auction House Recommended Price
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Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 04:51 (8 Years ago)
It could either be a suggestion as to what price might draw the most bidders, or a hard upper limit to how much you can price it at. Items could add to the upper limit.
Since some people won't be needing this feature, if it's a hard limit there should be a switch in the Misc. Settings.
Price values could either be taken from the average price of that pokemon as seen in the Auction House or taken from another source (such as the Price Check thread)
Example:
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 04:57 (8 Years ago)
Nope.
But without these limitations, this feature would be great!
pls pet pony
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 05:11 (8 Years ago)
I was also thinking of levels being included in the price (such as 100~200, 300~400, etc. levels having different prices) but that'd be too much.
The items feature would be easier, since there aren't (relatively) many items that can be given to a pokemon and the items are sorted by categories in the Item Bag already, which might help with pricing. Besides, it already semi-exists as the price option in the Item Shop and the Delibird Item Delivery system.
So the only reliable method of pricing would be the Price Check thread, but then it would be pointless as the thread is already there.
Edit: Actually, a user-submitted vote-like system might actually work. Except that there would need to be a person to approve a certain price, and I'm pretty sure the mods have enough work already.
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Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:12 (8 Years ago)
Now that you stated the idea clearly, yeah, seems great! Although I still think it will take a long time.
(maybe price Pokemon by rarity?)
Yes, I do think levels would be too complex to add, but what if there was a Ponyta at lv1 and another at lv120 at the same price? This is a hard problem to work around ;-;
pls pet pony
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:13 (8 Years ago)
I hope not, anyway.
"Don't let someone else make you feel guilty or ashamed about something you don't have control over, whether it is your skin color, your sexual preference or otherwise."
- Alex Bolton (I Hate Everything)
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:20 (8 Years ago)
My idea is that each user is evenly assigned an Auction House "server". The sever would only load for the user's selected server, so this could reduce lag.
Certain trades would not show up, though, meaning arranged trades between users would be hard!
pls pet pony
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:23 (8 Years ago)
Servers are rather costly to maintain, especially if used as regularly as the existing Auction House.
Perhaps around 3 or 4 servers with a certain amount of users designated to one might work, though it would still be a bit slow.
"Don't let someone else make you feel guilty or ashamed about something you don't have control over, whether it is your skin color, your sexual preference or otherwise."
- Alex Bolton (I Hate Everything)
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:37 (8 Years ago)
Another is to put more inactive users on a sever. They go online much less then active users and you can put more of them on a server because they won't auction much, therefore the site would have less servers, therefore reducing cost!
*pants Presto!
pls pet pony
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:40 (8 Years ago)
I'm confident the bot method would work, since it's been a huge success on Wikipedia, but then they have a huge server bank xP
"Don't let someone else make you feel guilty or ashamed about something you don't have control over, whether it is your skin color, your sexual preference or otherwise."
- Alex Bolton (I Hate Everything)
Posted: Mon, 28/12/2015 06:44 (8 Years ago)
Yeah, that bot method seems pretty good! It won't cost too much for an extra server, plus it makes the AH more faster! (without loney AH severs)
pls pet pony