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?