Qoojo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I've noticed that searching functions all around are weak at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wutru Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Whoever designed it should be fired. No questions asked. He/She didn't deserve the paycheck. Hire some better programmers please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyl Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Agree with this , if i know i need "Aluminium" i should be able to just search for that... Allso would be nice to have a option to choose what kind of armor piece i need allso... So BW please take note of this thread. Thyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-COBRA- Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 same as pvp merchant/other vendors, u cant sort out stuff on level, just by rarity or name, thats frikin stupid!! On top of that when u set Usable by myself it shows every type of armor even if i can only wear light, *** is that?? its bcz of companion?? Its horrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkimor Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Yup, worst AH system I've seen. I have NO idea how it got through testing. I'd look for a new career if I was the one who designed that awful mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liore Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The rest of the UI is so smooth, generally, that it makes the AH issues stand out even more. It really is in a barely usable state, and I hope we see some upgrades slated sooner rather than later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkimor Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The rest of the UI is so smooth, generally, that it makes the AH issues stand out even more. It really is in a barely usable state, and I hope we see some upgrades slated sooner rather than later! The basic UI still needs work. The AH is simply a continuation of bad UI design, only with the added bonus of being so poorly designed that it's about as user friendly as a grenade with the pin pulled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KluSax Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 So incredibly horrible that I would give the dev of the AH his/her walking papers. They obviously had NO IDEA what they were doing and took no time to look at any other AHs in any other game. The only possible exception is if his boss gave him no time to design it - if so, FIRE HIS BOSS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunabaguna Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 ITT: the op makes a good point, many people agree, a few trolls troll, and one vehemently defends a broken system that punishes people for knowing the name of the thing they want to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkimor Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 So incredibly horrible that I would give the dev of the AH his/her walking papers. They obviously had NO IDEA what they were doing and took no time to look at any other AHs in any other game. The only possible exception is if his boss gave him no time to design it - if so, FIRE HIS BOSS! Yeah, pretty much this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikeprof Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Bump in agreement. Hate even using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prolo Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Definitely agree with the OP. I have even stop using trying to put things up on the AH because of how tedious it is. Been Vendoring most of the BoE drops I get from missions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomag Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 A global search would be overpowered. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Pretty sure the AH was designed in the same 2 or 3 day window that they made the UI. That's the only explanation, IMO, for how they can both be so horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleapple Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) yeah the current market ui is garbage. i expected it wouldnt live up to my hopes, but i never thought it would be this bad.. the ui is like... from a f2p game 5 years ago Edited December 18, 2011 by purpleapple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnolith Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 I think the UI of the game itself is intuitive for someone who has played wow since launch. Overall most things in the UI are easy to find and clearly labeled without too much extra stuff cramed in for no reason ie the general UI is fine. With the AH it is not really the Interface itself but the usability part of that interface. I wonder what would be the reason to not provide a global search from the start. There HAS to be a good reason why the dev team decided to not put it in. Could it be to lower the server load at start? Could it be simply a bad design of that part of the game? Could it be a requirement of the way their database is implemented? One thing is certain is that I don t see this feature not coming in the next important content patch, if not I would expect the player base to keep asking for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excalaber Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Please bioware...for the love of God fix this! It was extremely rushed and not thought out very well. Also what would be nice is if we could link our items right into the AH to do an "auto search" on the item. This helps us find the relative prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnolith Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Please bioware...for the love of God fix this! It was extremely rushed and not thought out very well. Also what would be nice is if we could link our items right into the AH to do an "auto search" on the item. This helps us find the relative prices. You know I thought about this and it would probably be the best feature ever if the 'NEXT' version of the AH had a Average Galactic price in the info window. Imagine that...like in wow having 'auctioneer' be part of the UI. You get an item and see imediately two prices: - Seller price at one of those #7 people - Average price for the last 5 days on the Galactic market You could also introduce a future functionality for Crew skills later to be able to go and sell your stuff on the AH as a mission and sell that stuff at Average prices. Loads of possibilities. The problem is I guess most of us have used 'Auctioneer' for so many years that any AH now makes it almost mandatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthbored Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 i love reading these threads and guessing as i scroll down when the first fanboy will appear and give his biased reasons why nothing should be changed about this game. just makes me crack a big smile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lutherus Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 One thing I do miss a lot from my last MMO experience (yes, it was WoW) was being able to drag and drop items into the search bar to look up that particular item. I used this to look at prices before I put my item up so I could post at competitive prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahl_Windsong Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 You should also be able to shift click things into description so that if I want to sell something I can quickly see what it is selling for so I can set mine at a competative price. That is pretty basic if you ask me...and why that is not in is ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain_b Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I totally agree. Not being able to word search until after you enter all that criteria is highly annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasilii Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Agreed and like your metaphorical comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiiRahnedancer Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The current system works fine for me but then again I'm still used to the FFXI system. For those unfamiliar with FFXI's AH and think that this game's GTN is "borderline unusable", well your head would probably explode. But that's me, and I have used WoW's AH and I've used some actually good AH systems in other games. In General, more options are better. A search option helps a lot. Right now in ToR it wouldn't be that helpful because there's not enough variety in items to sift through to make it truly beneficial. But in the future it would be a great aid. What I did find lacking was a choice for selecting armor by slot when searching the GTN. It was a minor inconvenience atm because there simply isn't that much up for sale in the Heavy Armor category on my server. But here in a few days it dould take me a while to sift through gloves, boots, and belts to find a helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAvinue Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The current system works fine for me but then again I'm still used to the FFXI system. For those unfamiliar with FFXI's AH and think that this game's GTN is "borderline unusable", well your head would probably explode. But that's me, and I have used WoW's AH and I've used some actually good AH systems in other games. In General, more options are better. A search option helps a lot. Right now in ToR it wouldn't be that helpful because there's not enough variety in items to sift through to make it truly beneficial. But in the future it would be a great aid. What I did find lacking was a choice for selecting armor by slot when searching the GTN. It was a minor inconvenience atm because there simply isn't that much up for sale in the Heavy Armor category on my server. But here in a few days it dould take me a while to sift through gloves, boots, and belts to find a helmet. Did you ever think that the reason for lack of items in the GTN is because its a piece of crap and no one is using it? Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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