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I agree listing WTB's is a good idea. One of the things I really liked about P99 Auctions was the "raw auction data" tab where you could see how people actually auctioned things, like if they had an auction that said "Selling this 10k item for 5k for the next 10 minutes." Not something that's really common but it was still handy and I always checked that tab when looking items up. But like I said, I have no idea how much time this shit takes. | |||
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On the subject of the CoS, this item showcases another weakness of the P99 wiki; the "Circlet of Shadows" is often confused with the "Circlet of Shadow," leading the wiki for the pre-nerf to include listing of 200-300pp for the post-nerf version, which obviously messes up the average. There ought to be a system of flagging incorrect listings, including the ones where someone auctions an item for "1" instead of "1k" and then you have a 1pp listing majorly dragging the average down. Flagging inappropriate listings for removal may be the best way to keep that in check. This flagging system could also be a method where the community has the power to remove gouged prices, if enough people flag it as inappropriate. Perhaps that is one method that could help to fight against people who do that sort of thing. Then we could simply remove their listings from the pricing data and the average would still be reasonable. This sort of thing would work, but would be a pretty massive undertaking requiring active "flagged listing" removal from amin(s) of the site. It's a starting point, but I think it is worth workshopping because gougers are really running rampant these days.
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To answer some of the other questions:
Where's the data coming from? I wasn't sure if there would be enough demand for this sort of thing so I opted not to do the actual log uploader as trying to employ folks to use it sounds like a pain in the ass. People already use the one for ahungry and these days I don't play much p99, nor am I in the tunnel enough to use my own logs for data. The data is currently scraped from the ahungry site directly every couple of minutes so p99market is 100% reliant on ahungry not making major updates or blocking the ip of the machine doing the scraping. This is by far the largest pitfall of p99market. That said, the auction parser that I've built is extremely robust and could easily parse the log data if I had direct access to it. I'd love to see a centralized log service that any p99 auction site could share. Maybe something that just shoves all logs into S3? just an idea. I figured for now just scraping would be fine. The sad part about this is that while I could build a "live auction tracker" I feel as though it would be hijacking all of ahungry's work and claiming it as my own which I definitely do not want to do. Hopefully you can understand? Maybe if I got the okay from him I could implement a feature like that if he's not too mad that I'm scraping in the first place. As far as the idea of a reportable system, I'd love to have something like that. I imagine it would require some level of manual intervention on my part as having an automated system probably isn't a safe bet. There are some definite challenges there, but I really like the idea. I've also considered building a feature which allows a user to input a phone number and get a text the next time an item is being sold in their price range, but not sure if anyone would use that (or how much it would cost me). Sorry for any typos, I'm mobile. | ||
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Next feature will be the 'quick-glance' most recent auctions. | |||
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How tough to integrate is a "did you mean..." type of feature in case people misspell something or only know part of the item name?
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Just now I looked into this a bit further and it looks like one of the features of the database I'm using is text indexing which can be used for search. I can play with that a bit and see if I can work up a 'did you mean?' section. It'd be so cool if you could type in ry`gorr armor without that stupid backtick and have it say "did you mean one of the following?" and have it list out 10 of the ry`gorr results. | |||
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Absolutely, there's so much of that crap in item names. Another cool feature would be a search of "fungi" suggesting "Fungus Covered Scale Tunic," and other such common names. For example, typing "CoS" could bring up Circlet of Shadow," etc. I know the wiki does that for some things. For example, if you type "ToV" on the wiki, Temple of Veeshan comes up. It's probably a matter of compiling a long list of redirects for the most common stuff. CoS, Fungi, CoF, etc... just spitballing since we're talking about an "ideal" kind of site.
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