Ability to Access AH in SG Base

[Renatos1023]

I tried to do a search and see if there was a reason that you can't access the Auction House while in the SG base and couldn't find anything. Is it possible to change that? Simply a QoL change that would prevent me from hopping in and out of my base if I forgot a crafting material (which happens more often than you think lol). 

 

Not sure if there is a technical reason why using /AH won't open the auction house while in a base. But figured I'd make the ask.

[AboveTheChemist]

Don't hold your breath on this one. The AH is only accessible in world zones, not missions or bases. I think this is because a copy of the AH database has to be loaded into memory for each zone in which it is accessible, so making it available in bases would mean loading many, many more copies of the database and bog down the servers. That is the basic explanation anyway, the link below seems to have a more in-depth explanation.

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/17002-let-ah-work-inside-base/#findComment-187032

 

This gets requested often (or at least used to) so you can probably find other threads discussing it if you want to dig for more info.

[Renatos1023]

1 hour ago, AboveTheChemist said:

Don't hold your breath on this one. The AH is only accessible in world zones, not missions or bases. I think this is because a copy of the AH database has to be loaded into memory for each zone in which it is accessible, so making it available in bases would mean loading many, many more copies of the database and bog down the servers. That is the basic explanation anyway, the link below seems to have a more in-depth explanation.

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/17002-let-ah-work-inside-base/#findComment-187032

 

This gets requested often (or at least used to) so you can probably find other threads discussing it if you want to dig for more info.

Thanks for sharing that! I assumed it had something to do with the 'spaghetti' code that I always hear that the game was built on.

[Jacke]

54 minutes ago, Renatos1023 said:

Thanks for sharing that! I assumed it had something to do with the 'spaghetti' code that I always hear that the game was built on.

 

From what I've heard, the spaghetti-nature of the AH code is likely the worst in City.  That's going to be a major project that will be tackled some day, likely when there's also other reasons.

 

Also, there's still the bug that a Toon can try to enter an SG Base while that SG Base is being unloaded from memory and saved, leading to the server terminating the City client instead of doing something kinder like bouncing the Toon back to where it tried to enter the SG Base.  So that's also an area for work.