Yeah, I know that we have the wiki we can use to search, was just saying that getting rid of the clutter may remove the requirement to have 3 websites open when one forum tweak would make it a "one-stop shop".
ahungry is my favorite for doing price checks, much more accurate than the wiki. Just a suggestion, didn't know people preferred the clutter.
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Originally Posted by skipdog
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I think if your intent is to 'browse' items and you have no idea what you actually want to buy, you need to do some more research and come back later. It's just not in your best interest to 'window shop' in EQ. Do the research, find out exactly which items you want to purchase and for how much, and then search them out. That would still be quicker than having 5 subforums and having to browse through many many individual posts in the specific subforum that applies.
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Except that when you find what you want you then have to track down a seller, and hope that due to an influx of <insert economical fluctuation reason here> they haven't increased it from 300pp like it was a 3 weeks ago to 1k(crafted legs come to mind).
Where as by having everything in the forums, you don't have to spend tons of time sifting through pages of garbage or crap references from the search. How many times in a post will someone mention an item and now it comes up in your search.
This would keep things nice and clean and allow for directed buying and selling. Want to buy a character, go to that section. Want to buy a fungi? Go to the 10-100k section. It would then be an in built "pre-search" and would, in my opinion, streamline usage and overcome clunky search filtering and the pre-requisite of having to have 3 windows open to perform what one simple search
should be able to do.
I like to "browse" because sometimes people break from the norm and say "Hmm, this item is selling for x but I haven't been able to sell it for x so I will sell it for y instead" without actually being in EC.