Marketplace

[drath]

There's been a lot of talk about the marketplace lately. The issues with how it stands now:

• Crippling bug involving (for example) loading the market at 4:59PM then purchasing an item at 5:01PM will result in a purchase of the new item that was loaded hourly.
• Not enough variety of items.
• Heavily exploitable by purchasing 100 cheap quest items (for example).

New idea:

7 completely random items (from the whole database) will be generated. Those items will stay until they are purchased, in which case, a new random item will replace it. This solution will remove all of the issues.

[Jacq]

That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm all for it.

(I totally just bought 3 Spread Gun Falcons there haha)

edit: I'm not sure it's intentional or not, but the slot machine loads the items currently in the marketplace. Seems a little off if it's  random generation.

[Blackbird]

I think that's a fantastic idea! Go right ahead with it.

[drath]

This is next on my list to do, tonight I made significant changes on all instances of inventory, you will probably notice the speed improvements more than anything.

Inventory functionality now works on all pages that show your inventory (meaning the sorting/page ability). A long with this change comes to speed improvements I have also made on the Inventory page in specific, correct item #'s, how many you have in the set, and how many you have of the item itself.

To see more about what I accomplished this month, check out:
http://www.kokaro.com/news.php

[Scapegoat]

Marketplace is in desperate need of new items PL0X

[drath]

Marketplace changes are now in place, try it out!

[Jacq]

So expensive! D:

[drath]

I have increased the buy/sell prices of the 4/5 rarities to better reflect their new actual rareness. I might increase some rewards on certain things to balance further.

[drath]

Fixed a recent bug where you could purchase stuff for cheaper than it was selling for. I think a good idea for the shop would be to limit to amount of rarity 4's and 5's that show up.

[grover511]

Was the Marketplace updated today?

[drath]

Hehe, well it was reverted to back how it was supposed to be. Over time, some of the items were removed for some reason. Still looking to fix it

[grover511]

Gotcha!

[Czilla]

Still see the whole marketplace is full of R4's n 5's and when its not its like R1's that rnt collectable for the item collector... </3

[Czilla]

Drath i think the marketplace should be refreshed every so often like 2xs a week cuz no1 wants to buy those R5's n R4's if we already have them since they pop up all the time

[drath]

I'm planning on some changes for the Marketplace. I don't want them refreshed because then people will just wait to get new things. I wanted people to buy to get new things - part of an economy thing. BUT, what I will do is make rarity 5's very very rare, and rarity 4's extremely rare to show up. Right now, is basically like a 20% chance for each. They will be more like 1% soon. I'll let you know when I make the change.