statici 0 Report post Posted May 16, 2017 So I'm sure some people have noticed, but sorting by price does not always lead to the most expensive/least expensive items appearing first. It seems to select some arbitrary subset of the items on the AH, and then it sorts that page and only that page by price. Sometimes to dig down to lower-priced items, you have to go to further pages, where each page is sorted by its subset of items' prices. From what I have heard, this is because doing large AH queries can be bandwidth/processor intensive, so selecting a subset of 50 items at once prevents overloads. However, this leads to an annoying problem: If someones post an extremely ridiculous number of items (say, 500+ large brilliant shards, which is what "Matsbankso" on the alliance side has done) then all other items are relegated to the last few pages. That means that, even if you sort by price, you will see that person's items first; to see everyone else's lower-priced items, you have to go through every page to get to the last few pages, in order to see them at all. As I see it, this is basically an exploit, and its consequence is a screwed-up economy because not everyone is aware that actual item prices from the server in general, are lower than the apparent price. I know this may not be intended - Auctioneer makes such actions ridiculously easy, and it's hugely convenient for people to post and buy the exact number of items they want, when they are there individually (as compared to stacks). It really screws with the game though. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meridaw 11 Report post Posted May 16, 2017 you could just get Aux, it will sort the prices for you. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
statici 0 Report post Posted May 18, 2017 On 5/16/2017 at 3:46 PM, meridaw said: you could just get Aux, it will sort the prices for you. Ohhhh that is wonderful. I had it back before nost went down, but forgot what it was called. This does indeed basically solve the problem (for me at least). But in all seriousness... Jesus christ why? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meridaw 11 Report post Posted May 20, 2017 On 18.5.2017 at 9:36 AM, statici said: Ohhhh that is wonderful. I had it back before nost went down, but forgot what it was called. This does indeed basically solve the problem (for me at least). But in all seriousness... Jesus christ why? haha, holy crap! oO 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
