Market UI Improvements
I like all of the suggestions presented here, and have no objections to anyof them. Which is a fairly uncommon thing in this forum.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
The minimum character limit is 2, but it doesn't count stuff within quote tages, and I don't think it counts the URLs used for links or images. Or the tags themselves. So basically, 2 visible characters. Not sure about smilies.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
So I was buying a lot of things on the market a few days ago, when it hit me that the market window could use a few improvements to speed up the bidding process, and especially the time spent in repeated searches.
1. Allow us to "pin" items
What I mean is that if you're looking for salvage for a recipe requiring three or more different types, it would be really handy to be able to tag these so they'd stay at the top of the list, no matter what else you were to search for. I know this is possible, because the last item you highlighted doesn't get purged when you do a search. A small button on each item to lock it would be great.
2. Allow us to search salvage by recipe
Drag a recipe to the search bar and it will search out all the salvage needed to craft that IO and fill in the numbers. So if a recipe needed one of two kinds of salvage and two of a third kind, it'd fill in that you want one of each of the first two, and two of the third. All you'd need to do then is fill in the price you want to pay for each item. I saw something similar in The Sims 3, where you can shop for groceries by recipe, and since trying that, I've found CoH's shop interface a bit clumsy.
3. Show us an extended sale price list
The last 5 prices just aren't that terribly useful. Having the last 20 if asked for, would be nice. Also, an average price for the last 24 hours would be great, but that might destroy some of the fun of the market meta-game, and that would be bad, since the market meta-game can be fun, if you know how to play it.
That's just a few ideas that popped into my head. It shouldn't change much for the marketeers, but for us casual shoppers, it'd speed up the shopping, or at least the bidding and searching downtime.
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