What feature would you like on EQTC.

[iasmin]

Of course it would probably help if I read through the entire listing of posts on this thread before I opened my fat mouth too. Sorry!

[lonewylfe]

One thing I've noticed is at the bottom where it says "The time now is: ", the time that follows is the same color as the background.

[JMorgana]

Hehe, the time may be the same color (fixable I hope) but at least it is correct! I seem to recall that being a constant issue with the old forums.

[Ngreth Thergn]

With the implementation of the new boards I have discovered one thing that I'd like added:

A link to the "Mark all Forums as read" in a more convenient spot. With the old boards I could do this from any page of the search results that gave me new posts. Now I have to back all the way out to the top level of the EQTC forums to mark all the posts as read.

Quirky and small, but I find it easier and faster to do it from any page.

If someone can give me a vBulliten hack for it, I will consider it. I am not skilled enough to do it myself.

[Ngreth Thergn]

One thing I've noticed is at the bottom where it says "The time now is: ", the time that follows is the same color as the background.

Bah, didn't notice that

Oh well, it does not stand out now in the forum listings, but it readable everywhere now.

[Tudani]

Is there anyway to put the time back on the top, next to the time last visited information maybe? I didn't even realize the current board had the current time on it till I saw this thread.

[aprilleigh]

Is there any way to see a list of all the threads you're watching/posted in? If not, then I'd seriously love a way to see that list.

[KyrosKrane]

Aprilleigh, there is, but it's irritatingly complicated. Click on Search in the menu above, then Advanced Search. In the user name box, type in your name, then search. That gets you a list of all the threads you've posted in -- more accurately, it gives you a list of the last 500 threads. Apparently results are capped at 500 threads, and you can't see earlier posts.

For subscribed threads, click on Quick Links, then Subscribed threads.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Fond me a hack

Basicallyu... any message board feature request... find me a vbulletin hack

[Zaephod]

i would like to be able to send an HTTP Get request (for example http://www.eqtraders.com/search/search.php?id=0001200 ) that would return a page with a few lines of plain text or an XML formated doc that specified the first recipie in teh DB for it preferably in a format that includes the Item IDs for the items.

Why you ask? no i'm not trying to mine all of your data i'd just like to have a way of interfacing my EQIM Bot with the website so that people can ask the bot for a recipie and have it reply with a valid recipie including *drum roll* Links!

[Ngreth Thergn]

That will take some thought... (and I am not knowlegable in XML... so that does not help)

[wilcas]

I know you are working a pricing thing, but what I would find the handiest to use is a trivial list that shows costs per attempt, and a flag to indicate which ones need foraged materials. There are plenty of skillup guides out there but they do not attempt to stay current (can't blame em, really). Besides, this is the premier tradeskill site...

[Zaephod]

That will take some thought... (and I am not knowlegable in XML... so that does not help)

XML is surprisingly simple for all the hype it's gotten.
An example recipie might be:

<recipie>
<name> Fish Rolls</name>
<ID>#######</ID>
<container>
<name> Spit </name>
<ID>#######</id>
</container>
<ingredient>
<name> Batwings </name>
<ID>#######</id>
</ingrediant>
<ingredient>
<name> Fresh Fish </name>
<ID>#######</id>
</ingrediant>
</recipie>

[KyrosKrane]

You'd also need a quantity and a link field for each ingredient (for links back to EQTC), but yes, the basic construction is sound. You'd need the ID field in case the client wants to request additional recipes (such as sub-combines).

Since you can have multiple containers, you would probably have to set up a "containers" supergroup. You'd also want one for ingredients, and you may wish to include fields for trivial, yield, and notes. You also have to account for multiple recipes, each with its own containers and ingredients (though you may choose to disable this, if you only want to provide one recipe at a time). The net result would look like so:

<item>
	<name>Fish Rolls</name>
	<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
	<notes>Frequently used for skillups and sells well to monks</notes>
	<ID>#######</ID>

	<recipe>
		<trivial>122</trivial>
		<yield>1</yield>

		<containers>
			<container>
				<name>Spit</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
			</container>
			<container>
				<name>Collapsible Spit</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
			</container>
			<container>
				<name>Oven</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
			</container>
			<container>
				<name>Tanaan Oven</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
			</container>
		</containers>

		<ingredients>
			<ingredient>
				<name>Bat Wings</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
				<quantity>1</quantity>
			</ingredient>
			<ingredient>
				<name>Fresh Fish</name>
				<link>http://www.eqtraders.com/...</link>
				<ID>#######</ID>
				<quantity>1</quantity>
			</ingredient>
		</ingredients>

	</recipe>
</item>

If there were multiple recipes, you'd just have additional recipe blocks inside of item, one per recipe.

[Zaephod]

As for links i'm specificly interested in providing In Game links (easy enough to mine the raw links for this and i'm working on being able to generate proper ingame links (searching for the correct checksum algorithm at the moment)). Basilcy i'd like to offer people a way to go "Crap i forgot what i needed to make <insert item>" and have a way of getting that recipie from within the game (aside from the interface since not everything is auto-learned). Or a way to find out "What was <insert tradeskill flagged item they just looted> used for?"