Evil Trout Posted:

Let’s say you have a bunch of extra moar files. Typically you have dozens of pieces you don’t want. So you go to the auction house. How do you unload them all?

Remember an auction has 4 fields -> minimum bid, reserve price, buy out price, length

So you’d have to fill out those fields for EACH piece you want to sell. And this is by file!

We came up with two ideas, neither of them popular. One was a tabular list, where it would list all your files, one piece per row, and all four fields to the side. Still, that’s tedious to use if you want to unload all your pieces.

You could have checkboxes by each piece, along with a set of control fields, and a bumon to apply those control values to all checked pieces.

Or limit users to only being able to sell one piece (not duplicates) at a time. So you could do it for piece #1 once, piece #2 once, but not piece #1 eight times.

MC Banhammer Posted:

You could have checkboxes by each piece, along with a set of control fields, and a bumon to apply those control values to all checked pieces.

Or limit users to only being able to sell one piece (not duplicates) at a time. So you could do it for piece #1 once, piece #2 once, but not piece #1 eight times.

That’s what we tried sketching out, but it looked like a form from hell and I figured no user would be smart enough to understand it.

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Evil Trout Posted:

That’s what we tried sketching out, but it looked like a form from hell and I figured no user would be smart enough to understand it.

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Sorry for the mid trolling but…

WAT

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I think it is possible that this is a joke.

MC Banhammer Posted:

I’m thinking this might not be the screenshot you actually showed? As there’s nothing related to .moar files, or even Forumwarz, anywhere on it…

Yes sorry if it wasn’t clear — that’s a screenshot of a simple program (wget) and a UI for it that’s insanely complex.

We try to keep things very simple wherever possible. I’m not saying we’re perfect, just that we try to keep things obvious and understandable.

Evil Trout Posted:

Yes sorry if it wasn’t clear — that’s a screenshot of a simple program (wget) and a UI for it that’s insanely complex.

We try to keep things very simple wherever possible. I’m not saying we’re perfect, just that we try to keep things obvious and understandable.

I think that will make Big Brother happy he got what he wanted, you also made it stupid proof so only the worthy can use it.

Big Brother Posted:

Why not just have a list of pieces and how many you have of each one, and a bumon next to each one called “Auction one off!”?

Do you really want to auction off dozens of .moar files one at a time? Bear in mind each click on that link brings you to a page that looks like this:

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Wylin Posted:

wGet is apparently a program used to download entire websites. Not what he wanted to show us.

Oh Please, don’t make him ban himself again when he’s actually discussing things with us before making something that will affect the game in HUGE ways.

I was joking.

Evil Trout Posted:

Do you really want to auction off dozens of .moar files one at a time? Bear in mind each click on that link brings you to a page that looks like this:

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Evil Trout Posted:

If so, please offer suggestions of to make a non-confusing and elegant user interface for trading pieces. If you can’t offer any constructive criticism, shut the hell up.

For each partially completed .moar file, have two options:

1) List all non-unique pieces

2) List all pieces.

For each piece that is sold in this way, of say the darkside file, create an auction for “piece of darkside” without identifying which piece it is. Allow people using the “buy-it-now” option to buy multiple pieces at once (eBay does this for some auctions).

Anybody who wins the auction for “piece of darkside” or buys multiple pieces will receive, at random one of the 50 pieces of darkside, regardless of which pieces were actually listed. Replace the text you currently get when you win an auction by something like “You won a piece of darkside… you received piece #28”. Since the pieces that drop from threads are, as far as anybody can tell, uniformly distributed this would be exactly equivalent to getting a drop from a thread, it just requires the expenditure of flezz and not a forum visit. So basically, you can make a fun, easy to use, system for selling .moar pieces in a Fukubukuro format (like Bags of Crap on woot.com).

Plus, come on… if you’re going to name the thing Kyoubai (Kay, you buy), how could you not offer the Fukubukuro (**** you, buckaroo) option?