What feature would you like on EQTC.

[Renjah]

Originally posted by aprilleigh
Very true - this site is very well known, and it could be useful to offer links to other smaller sites that offer things EQTraders doesn't want to bother with. More of us would know about and be able to use those tools, while EQTraders gets the benefit of indirectly providing a desired feature without having to make it an integrated part of their site. Maybe a links page?

When peoople have to register for yet another site, most won't do it. Those sites that have this ability are hardly well known. Just figured if it was tied into a well known site where people could register once then it would actually be used. Perhaps a maketing genius shoudl take over the other sites and get some publicity

[Krazick]

Perhaps a maketing genius shoudl take over the other sites and get some publicity

Oh, Like Yantis/IGE?

Currently the site only requires a registration if you post on the Forum. To use the actual Database and get at Items and Recipes... no registration is needed.

If, and that is a BIG IF, EQ Traders tries to do something like this, it would require a seperate registration to access and modify the user information.

Then we get into issues like:

1 User - 8 Characters... or 16 Characters... or ## Characters.
Adding New Characters
Deleting Old Characters
Keeping the User information secure
Providing the ability to send out Passwords people have forgotten
Tracking Skill Levels for each character
Tracking Trophy/Geerlok
Tracking Server

And that is just to get started...

[Renjah]

I assume the [user] table of this forums has some sort of auto imcrement field if so then this could be possible

Char_Table
primary key CharID [auto increment]
UserID (foreign key from [user] table)
Race char string
Class Char string
tailoringskill [int]
smithingskill [int]
....
poisonskill [int]
tailoringtrophy [yes/no]
smithingtrophy [yes/no]
...
poisontrophy [yes/no]

Make it so the user has to log in with forum username and password then query the new table to

select * from Char_Table WHERE UserID = (UserID logged in)

All the items in the result would be all the chars for that one user. Course this is just off the top of my head but I forsee only havign to add 1 table if you tie it in with forum login....

[Krazick]

You missed the point. The Forums and the Database appear connected. But they are two separate systems. The Two databases are SEPARATE. And the Forum User Definitions are not really under our direct control at the table level.

[Renjah]

Ahh nm I was assuming you could edit the forum database to add the table... guess it wouldn't be as easy as I figured.

[DaluinRizzo]

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=15716

[Ngreth Thergn]

Re: Semi-Automated Player updating

Originally posted by gnormy
Krazick (and others) have done unbelievably huge job of interpretting all of the submissions and entering them into the database. My suggestion would be to create a semi-automated way for players to generate new submissions and similarly a way to semi-automate changes to existing items.

As a rough outline, this would be the player filling out a web-form so the data of the item/recipe is more arranged. This would be submitted to a review area, where someone like Krazick would look at it and make changes needed, and then finalize the item/recipe by moving it via script from the review area to the full database.

Updates to existing items/recipes would work in the same manner.

Players could query against the "review" area to whats pending submission. This may increase the load on the database but would also lower the load on the message board for those seeking to see "whats new".

In my mind this would be very extensive change since its an automation of a process that is currently executed manually. However, I believe that it would beneficial in the long run, as much as moving from the static web-pages to script generated pages has benefited your tasks. Short term - it means alot of code work, not only for the scripting to attach data to the database, for the webforms that would be needed as well as the review and edit controls.

First off, it may be beyond my meager skills
Secondly... it is prone to abuse...
Thirdly... We need to REDUCE the load on the main site... the load on the boards is fine, and needs no reduction

I do have on the ideas list a way to "submit" changes... whcih may include such a thing without the "review" part.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by aprilleigh
I have frequently wished for a way to exclude certain things, such as recipes requiring pie tins, or some other similar reuseable item, that I do not have and don't feel like buying/making.

Hrm... that is rather complex for the server to figure out. So if I do this it will be low priority, and only on the eventual recipe search. So this is not a no, nor a yes, but a maybe.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by Renjah
I would like to be able to enter my trade skills in a profile or somewhere where it can be searched by others. This way if someone needs a halfling tailor with 240+ skill on veeshan bang they have a few ppl to talk to. Or if I need a human smith on veeshan to equip my pally in cultural I can search and find 1 or 2.

At this time we have no plans for such a thing. #1 it requires a login, which I am avoiding like a plague. #2 it is prone to abuse. #3 it requires a login which I am avoiding like a plague.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by Renjah
Ahh nm I was assuming you could edit the forum database to add the table... guess it wouldn't be as easy as I figured.

Yeah. the forums are VBulliten forums, I did not write them. And while I am sure I could hack their table... I am not sure I want too.

Also... the forums and the database are 2 totally diferent servers, with totally diferent database servers... so I may not even be able to get them to talk to each other.

Now it may be posible to ad such a feature to the boards server, and use the existing login... I am not sure I want to fool with code I am not familiar with, nor add more load to the boards server (not that it is under any jeapordy)

There is also the abuse risks. Someone claims they are X person on Y server with Z skill... just to grief X person with tells. We have no way to prove that a person is who they say they are in the Game.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by DaluinRizzo
http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=15716

See first post in this thread... summary though... I will not go to other threads for ideas.

[Tweedledea]

I think someone posted something similar...

It would be very useful to be able to sort search results by trivial.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Originally posted by Renjah
I would like to be able to enter my trade skills in a profile or somewhere where it can be searched by others. This way if someone needs a halfling tailor with 240+ skill on veeshan bang they have a few ppl to talk to. Or if I need a human smith on veeshan to equip my pally in cultural I can search and find 1 or 2.

Weren't there threads in the Marketplace forums designed specifically to fufill this need - Posting who you were, how to contact you, and what you could provide?

If those threads have died off and been forgotten, maybe people could work to revivify that concept. It would provide essentially the same service (since you can search the forums, and specify the sub-board you care about - and people can edit their posts if they want to update their info) and be largely community driven (assuming they don't spawn a need for moderator attention).

Just a thought. I don't mean to go against Ngreth's post above, and if this post is taken as such I apologize - please delete this. I'm just posting to remind about the solution that was already used once, and as far as I knew still in place.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by Tweedledea
I think someone posted something similar...

It would be very useful to be able to sort search results by trivial.

That would be part of the recipe search (the item search has no idea what the trivial is... it is searching items not recipes)

[Ngreth Thergn]

Originally posted by Dunthor Warsmith
Weren't there threads in the Marketplace forums designed specifically to fufill this need - Posting who you were, how to contact you, and what you could provide?

If those threads have died off and been forgotten, maybe people could work to revivify that concept. It would provide essentially the same service (since you can search the forums, and specify the sub-board you care about - and people can edit their posts if they want to update their info) and be largely community driven (assuming they don't spawn a need for moderator attention).

Just a thought. I don't mean to go against Ngreth's post above, and if this post is taken as such I apologize - please delete this. I'm just posting to remind about the solution that was already used once, and as far as I knew still in place.

You are correct, that *IS* what the marketplace is for. It is just people wanting more