Jan08: Which of the ideas?

Post by **+Colibri** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:03 am

Please vote, the most wanted one is the next thing to get scripted when I have a spare day. They are all of about the same complexity, and I cant quite make my mind what i should start on next.

The auctioning would work like ebay. You submit something for an auction, or you can also make it at a set price, and if it's an auction, whoever wins, gets the item. You would have to meet the person ingame to actually trade the item (at least for now).

The change character is basically the same as having to log out and re-login back in with another character, just that this would be instant. So, I guess handy for bod runners.

OldManAlewar · Post by **OldManAlewar** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:03 pm

on: auction,
Its too much of a fun event where people show up, and we can see insanely rich people try to out-bid/bluff each other, having this automated would reduce that, though if it is confined to base resources, and not anything 'special' it might be a handy addition, but basically its nothing the "market" section not the forum doesnt offer.

Basically, i would hate to lose the auction as a social event.

Post by **+Colibri** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:32 pm

Oh, a note on that, we'd still have auctions like regular. It would be a tool for players to submit an item and get the highest bidder. You could set the minimal increments, timeouts, instant-win-amount, etc...
It would also be handy because, if everybody were to trade tokens/gold/ed thru that, we could draw graphs of how the currencies are against eachother - really fun for anyone out there who's interested in shard economy.

The auction event would still be as it used to.

leehovan · Post by **leehovan** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:20 pm

I would really love to see these 2 features

Auctioning items on the Portal

Ability to chat via the portal, not just listen

there are always bids which i want to bid but not able to say anything. Can just only read through the portal >.<

So close yet so far....

10 votes for those 2 !!

rush · Post by **rush** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:37 pm

Ability to chat via the portal is a good feature as i am always looking at the chat and not replying while working.

It feels sad as most ED auctioning happen while i was working

Hopefully this feature will enable me to be involved in bidding,

Xai · Post by **Xai** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:15 am

I vote for : chat via portal.

I agree the auctions are a good social event and would not want to add a feature that will detract from them.

The instant character swap wouldd be handy but we're managing so unless you want to implement it soon I'd leave it as a slow burning project.

Post by **+Colibri** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:44 am

Colibri [Admin] wrote:Oh, a note on that, we'd still have auctions like regular. It would be a tool for players to submit an item and get the highest bidder.

Ka'Met · Post by **Ka'Met** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:25 pm

like an Ebay type auction? your talking just a player service that runs daily or something like that?

If so, wow change my vote asap

Post by **+Colibri** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:16 pm

Well, to keep you all updated, i've been messing with the portal chat thingy today a little bit, there's several things that need to be done:
- Portal to know what characters you have
- Ability to send a message from the portal to the UO server
- Ability for that message to appear in the portal aswell, even if the server crashed

And i've just made the first step today. No eta, but i think some of it might be operational soon.

O and there's something that kinda got announced today, altho i'm not so sure i will actually go thru with it - a new feature of the portal to trade items ingame.
For example, you would be able to put an item in a special bag in your bankbox, and the list of items in that bag will then be visible from the portal. Then, you would be able to mark some of those items as for sale on the portal. Might be just a fixed price for now, i might also make it as an auction someday.

Post by **+Colibri** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:51 pm

Well, i hate to turn this thread into my personal blog, but to keep you updated, today i've made a component that enables the portal to actively request data from the server (so far it was so that portal only listened to what the server had to say).
And that is a very helpful thing to have in order to make the chat possible. From now on it's just the coding routine of what to send and what to display to the portal user. So i'd say i'm about 40% into completing the portal chatability.

Post by **+Colibri** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:18 pm

Well, the portal chat thingy is up and operational!

Excelsior

Excelsior

Jan08: Which of the ideas?

Which of the three enhancements would you like to see first?

Jan08: Which of the ideas?