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Originally Posted by Estu
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FYI, http://ahungry.com/eqauctions is already doing exactly this. People need to run a program and sit in EC so that it gets updated, though. What you could do is get whatever character you'd use to collect logs for your site, and collect logs for this site instead or in addition. |
The program on this site appears to just scan your EQ directory for logs when you run it and upload them. The site only updates once an hour. There is also no ability to search the auctions, only the items being auctioned.
What if I want to know immediately when someone is selling a fungi tunic for less than 80k? On ahungry you'll have to wait about an hour, search for it, and then spam refresh waiting for it to show up.
My site, you could enter a price range between 60-80k, filter on "fungus covered scale tunic", set the date/time to now and then just leave the window open. Within a few seconds of this item being auctioned it'll show on your previously blank list.
Then there is the whole other aspect that the site you linked only links to the P99 Wiki auction tracker. Honestly, the data on the P99 auction tracker kind of sucks balls and I understand why now after generating my own data. For example, no buyer data.
Prices are much better represented as an average of all prices (buy and sell) that exist rather than just looking at the sell prices. For example, the average price of a fungi for sell in my data for past 30 days is 92k.. on P99 auction tracker its 90k. Then if you average people wanting to buy fungi the average is 73k, no data for P99 tracker. Take the median and you get something like 83k which is much closer to the average market price for a fungi.
Basically.. ahungry is great, and thats where I got the idea from, but it doesn't actually do real time.. it relies on someone submitting the logs for them, which no one has done in the last 4 days, and then it takes an hour for the data to refresh and you are missing a ton of data/being linked to the P99 wiki for the auctions/items and I just want to make something better.
I'll finish this auction tracker, and it will be awesome, it might just take me a year. I just wanted to mention it in case someone wants to help out and make it happen faster.