can we fix the AH overflow tell spam?

[Ridiculous Girl]

every time i sell over 32 enhancements and try to claim them, i get a flood of tells and the market freezes for any where from 5 seconds to more than 30 seconds, depending on how many items over 32 that i had claimed. this has always been like this, as far as i can remember, which is not saying much but this i know has been like this for ages. it's terribly annoying, especially when whatever channel that i happen to be following suddenly gets flooded with 20 tells... 😄

 

example:

 

 

even if it could be changed to just one tell, i would greatly appreciate it. 🙂

[srmalloy]

9 hours ago, Ridiculous Girl said:

every time i sell over 32 enhancements and try to claim them, i get a flood of tells and the market freezes for any where from 5 seconds to more than 30 seconds, depending on how many items over 32 that i had claimed.

The problem can start happening with as few as 22 items claimed at once. It appears to be a problem with the interface between the game client and the database module that manages the AH. The problem existed back on Live, so I suspect that it's not a simple fix, or it would have already been corrected.

[Ridiculous Girl]

 

1 hour ago, srmalloy said:

The problem can start happening with as few as 22 items claimed at once.

never under 32 for me...

[PoptartsNinja]

If the Auction House had a 'slow mode' where it could only send 1 tell to a person every 30-60 seconds, it would probably fix this.

[DoctorDitko]

Ha! 

Funny how the AH is too busy to process your request, but has plenty of time for redundant tells.

Reminds me of certain online retailers.

[UltraAlt]

On 3/8/2025 at 4:50 AM, Ridiculous Girl said:

even if it could be changed to just one tell, i would greatly appreciate it.

 

The problem to me is that it acts like a /tell.

It says it is a tell - which as far as I know, is a "private message".

If you don't put "private message" in  chat tab then /tells from other players don't show up.

 

So the root of the problem is what makes this /ah spam tells different from private messages so that it overrides all chat windows?

As far as I'm concerned it could be an /error message or a /system message. Spam those all you want. 

 

At this point, I think any new player that see the /ah buttons greyed out are going go the the /help channel and ask why (by which time, it will probably have cleared)

 

Let's look at how the game behaves if I try to pull "Character Items" out of email too fast.

Get ready for the wall of spam, because I'm going to post it ... you better stand back!

 

 Please wait a moment.

 

Yeah. That's it.  Please wait a moment. once.

 

So if the "Character Items" can do that when I'm machine gun clicking the "claim" button (and, yeah, I can click pretty fast at this point to post items and to get influence from sold items one at a time), why can't the /AH spam behave like that?

 

It seems it is getting all of the overflow/excessive requests at the same time versus the "claim" button immediately locking up when you try to get one too quickly.

 

And, yeah, it is around 30 that it can handle at one time - which makes me think that the solution is that the game should know that limit and the "get all inf" should be change to "get 30 item Inf".

That being said. If you click that and get infl for 30 and try to do it immediately again, it will lock up.

You can do a test and see how it behaves.

Wait for a while when you have about 60 left. Click as quickly as you can to one-at-a-time retrieve infl until you get down to say 25 items left to get influence for. Then quickly hit the "get all inf' button - and it will lock up.

Maybe I click faster than most people, but I have seen this happen repeatedly.

I don't know exactly how long the buffering is on the sales, but it is in there even if you are manually clicking to get the infl. You simply usually can't click fast enough to fill the buffer before the oldest "get inf" on single item has has been cleared to make room for a new retrieval.

 

I think it is down to an all or nothing thing. I think at this point. some of us would like the option of "or nothing".

 

So how do we achieve that?

It might turn into a Null the Gull kind of work around thing if it is even doable.

"Make me not see /AH spam" and, if you really like, you can ask the Null again to "Make me see /AH spam".

 

I know what is happening at this point. I would be fine never having ALL my chat tab windows filled with the spam ever again.

I know to wait once it locks up. No big deal.

No need to waste CPU time sending me X number of messages tell me something that I already know.