Auction House - add Date Listed to items you're selling

[Uun]

Just what it says. It would be nice to know how long an item has been listed without being sold. This is just for your own inventory. Buyers wouldn't see this information.

[Doc_Scorpion]

Seconded!

[Snarky]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

Just what it says. It would be nice to know how long an item has been listed without being sold. This is just for your own inventory. Buyers wouldn't see this information.

why, you afraid of stale product?

 

[gameboy1234]

I'd support this.  I suspect that the Auction House isn't really fair when it sells items.  Sometimes software like databases says certain operations are "random", but what they actually mean is that the operation isn't specified.  It might not (and probably isn't) random at all.

 

So when two people sell the same item for the same amount of money, the DB might choose to ignore one offer consistently, and therefore some offers might never be chosen.  I bet there's a lot of offers for items that are exactly the same price, like 1,000,001 and 2,000,001 Inf.  It's a very common price point.  So if the date of offer is available then the software could choose the oldest offer.  If two items are available for the same price, let's say for 1,000,001 and one was posted on Jan 1, and one on Jan 2, then choose the Jan 1 offer first.  This prevents offers from going stale and ensures that everyone gets their bid chosen eventually.

 

This might take some work, but it could start with just adding the offer date to the database, and displaying it to the user.  It's a first step.

 

(I don't personally care about stale bids.  If I can't remember when I posted it, it's time to re-list it.)

 

[gameboy1234]

17 hours ago, Snarky said:

why, you afraid of stale product?

 

 

Fortunately there's no milk salvage in the game, so we're not really worried about it going stale.  Though that regenerating flesh does get kinda manky after a while, and don't even talk to me about what a demonic blood sample smells like after sitting on the ah after a week.