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I got this email the other day.... Name removed to protect the guilty.
I wonder some times about people......... I had to retype my response about 3 times to not fall to this persons level. I may have been a little snippy in my opening, but I tried!
Bah on second thought... I was snippy... oh well!
From: {email removed}
To: <admin@mboards.eqtraders.com>
Subject: sdorts??
K WHO WAS THE IDIDOT WHO PUT TOGETHER THE VENDOR’S LIST??
If I knew what vendor I needed , I would not be searching…the ****ed db should be sorted on item, not vendor!! If I want to buy vinegar, I don’t want to go thru every vendor in the list – not even every one in list by zone…I want to go to “vinegar” and find every vendor whop sells it. Who was sitting on their brains? Further…a db is only as a good as its sorts…every db should be re-sortable on any component contained in the db. Get it together folks. Same with recipes. I should be able to type in an ingredient and get a list of every recipe that contains that ingredient.
To: <admin@mboards.eqtraders.com>
Subject: sdorts??
K WHO WAS THE IDIDOT WHO PUT TOGETHER THE VENDOR’S LIST??
If I knew what vendor I needed , I would not be searching…the ****ed db should be sorted on item, not vendor!! If I want to buy vinegar, I don’t want to go thru every vendor in the list – not even every one in list by zone…I want to go to “vinegar” and find every vendor whop sells it. Who was sitting on their brains? Further…a db is only as a good as its sorts…every db should be re-sortable on any component contained in the db. Get it together folks. Same with recipes. I should be able to type in an ingredient and get a list of every recipe that contains that ingredient.
#1 there is a search... guess what, it searches on item... you can get to it by clicking on search, or on the left hand menu on the bottom of it is a text entry field. enter in your item... vinegar you get this page http://www.eqtraders.com/search/search.php?data[item]=vinegar&min=0 with 2 items... they happen to be seaweed vinegar and vinegar. Click on vinegar and you get this page http://www.eqtraders.com/items/show_...r=035000000000 which lists all the vendors that an item has. On this page AND the previous page is a link for "Find recipes that use this item" http://www.eqtraders.com/search/reve...r=035000000000 that shows the recipes that an item uses.
So... you are suggesting on the left hand menu... I put in all items in the game that relate to tradeskills? (we have about 11000 items) so that you can slog through the 11k items to find the item you want instead of just searching for the item and getting the information you want? The vendor lists ARE for people who want the the opposite "sort" of just searching for the item.
We figured people would want to SEARCH on items instead of browsing on items... and then gave them the other sort methods of finding sources of by tradeskill or by zone if they wanted another way of looking at finding items instead of a search.
So... you are suggesting on the left hand menu... I put in all items in the game that relate to tradeskills? (we have about 11000 items) so that you can slog through the 11k items to find the item you want instead of just searching for the item and getting the information you want? The vendor lists ARE for people who want the the opposite "sort" of just searching for the item.
We figured people would want to SEARCH on items instead of browsing on items... and then gave them the other sort methods of finding sources of by tradeskill or by zone if they wanted another way of looking at finding items instead of a search.
Ngreth Thergn
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