Market change
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Category: Miscellaneous
Forum Name: Suggestions & Game Enhancements
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Topic: Market change
Posted By: hellion19
Subject: Market change
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 06:42
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So I was thinking there could be one minor change that would be useful. It would be good to add a small calculator that you can make your order based off of. It would be A * B = C A= Number of item B= Price per item C= Total cost of items being sold or bought. How it differs is currently we have to put in A and C in order to get an order done in the market. What it would allow us to do is if we wanted to say sell 1000 of a particular item at 200 we can just put in A and B. If we wanted to try to sell to get 4 million gold we can put it in C and then place the price per item you wish to sell and it would calc out the number needed to sell. I know most of this is fairly simple math and most can do it without a huge amount of thought. I just figured it would be a minor adjustment for making the market a little more player friendly. |
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Posted By: SugarFree
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 07:04
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distance dude, where is distance? you need a modifier for distance to.. ------------- Nuisance |
Posted By: hellion19
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 07:08
| Distance isn't a factor for costs... Its simply to make the inputting of orders a little quicker than having to calc it yourself. |
Posted By: SugarFree
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 11:45
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how is distance (travel time) not a factor? it HAS to be a factor, i got but 70 caravans, and if those will be around for half a week i wish to be paid for that. ------------- Nuisance |
Posted By: Silent/Steadfast
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 12:35
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Distance isn't a factor in what something costs currently. The idea in this thread simply makes it easier to sell something at a certain price without having to do any math, it doesn't propose that the trade system be modified in any way. ------------- "Semantics are no protection from a 50 Megaton Thermonuclear Stormcrow."-Yggdrassil (June 21, 2011 6:48 PM) "SCROLL ya donut!" Urgorr The Old (September 1, 2011 4:08 PM) |
Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 14:36
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Try this: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=2234&PID=24208&title=market-offers-a-fair-price-for-distance#24208" rel="nofollow - http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=2234&PID=24208&title=market-offers-a-fair-price-for-distance#24208 -------------  |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 16:20
| under trade v2 the buyer's caravans will be transporting the goods, so the seller's caravans won't be tied up, except to transport the goods to a faction hub in the first place. |
Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 17:07
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Yes, the distance issue is moot, given that the v1 market will be distance-limited soon™. A simple Javascript "enter two of the three figures and we'll auto-fill the third box" would help a lot. ------------- |
Posted By: hellion19
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 23:18
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Yes I understand that travel time is an overall cost but it is not relevant to placing an order in this way as there is no specific variable for distance and/or time. That would be determined by how often said vans are used, how high value the resources you normally trade are, and a number of other variables. That being said it also has nothing to actually do with the proposed idea. The idea was simply a slightly more stream lined version of the market that allows a player to place orders in based on different numbers depending on what they wanted to do. I kind of went over it in the example from the first post... If you just wanted to sell X items and price Y the idea allows you to. If you wanted to put an order in to get 5 mil gold for price Y it could just calc out items for you. I believe it would be a fairly easy adjustment as all you need to do is link the 3 boxes together that once 2 are filled in the 3rd will auto calculate. A * B = C Plug in any 2 letters and 3rd would populate. |
Posted By: Innoble
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 00:01
| I get your idea and I support it. I hate having to multiply numbers with my calculator just to get a market order up. The game should do this for me. |
Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 00:00
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The updated marketplace in trade v2 uses price per item and quantity as the the input fields. Tax and total cost is calculated for you. Luna ------------- GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk 
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 00:58
Yay! But on the other hand, less opportunity for feats of mental arithmetic. Just when I was getting good at multiplying numbers between 1.5 and 4 by 90,000.  |
GM Luna wrote:Posted By: JimJams
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 16:21
Great ! ------------- 
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Posted By: demdigs
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 17:15
| any word on when the hubs will become active? |