08-06-2015, 01:07 PM
Jesus I wish. I'd find some cute little nerdette, turn her into my slave, and make her make and app for me to keep track of the market board lol.
But......
I don't see why it isn't possible in some sense. Didn't they do it with FFXI? And I KNOW other games have similar things. We have wow which has several addons just for tracking the AH and we have their app for buying/selling directly onto the AH from a phone.
This might be a little nuts but here is an idea:
What if you made something similar to guild work and distributed it for free. It would keep track of prices and update its history based on what items people looked at. Just like how guild works alerts other players using guild work to hunt locations as long as a gw person is near the mob.
I'm not saying feed the players the information directly either. Or make them wait through aassive scan process like with wow. I'm saying give them a software that helps you out. It sends market board data to a specific location. and each time someone clicks an item on the market board, it updates that item provided they have the software. In fact, you can encourage people to actually do this for you;
You offer them the freeware to monitor the MB. You give them free access to the MB tracker. You throw a discount for your bots to anyone USING or currently installed with your mob tracker software. (Just dont make it lag hellacious mates, eh? lol) Not saying you knock something like fifty bucks off the price, just a little incentive. Maybe ten bucks or so? You could make a nice tidy profit off of it. A LOT of hardcore players surf the MB constantly looking to strike on cheap sales. So anything that tells them how to make a quick buck might get you a quick buck in return. They come to rely on your MB freeware, (Don't get cheap and stick some of the features behind a price tag. I cant tell you how many devs shoot themselves in the foot like that. People don't like being so glarringly reminded that you are out to make a living too you know.) They get used to the idea of you, and eventually start using your bots. Some of them might turn their nose up at it at first, but that is okay. You don't want the instant money, you want the earned money because it keeps flowing longer.
Of course if all that is to much of a gamble, you could just put up a donation section and place SMALL goals on it for the effort put into it. In the end, the more people with the free ware the better it will work.
But......
I don't see why it isn't possible in some sense. Didn't they do it with FFXI? And I KNOW other games have similar things. We have wow which has several addons just for tracking the AH and we have their app for buying/selling directly onto the AH from a phone.
This might be a little nuts but here is an idea:
What if you made something similar to guild work and distributed it for free. It would keep track of prices and update its history based on what items people looked at. Just like how guild works alerts other players using guild work to hunt locations as long as a gw person is near the mob.
I'm not saying feed the players the information directly either. Or make them wait through aassive scan process like with wow. I'm saying give them a software that helps you out. It sends market board data to a specific location. and each time someone clicks an item on the market board, it updates that item provided they have the software. In fact, you can encourage people to actually do this for you;
You offer them the freeware to monitor the MB. You give them free access to the MB tracker. You throw a discount for your bots to anyone USING or currently installed with your mob tracker software. (Just dont make it lag hellacious mates, eh? lol) Not saying you knock something like fifty bucks off the price, just a little incentive. Maybe ten bucks or so? You could make a nice tidy profit off of it. A LOT of hardcore players surf the MB constantly looking to strike on cheap sales. So anything that tells them how to make a quick buck might get you a quick buck in return. They come to rely on your MB freeware, (Don't get cheap and stick some of the features behind a price tag. I cant tell you how many devs shoot themselves in the foot like that. People don't like being so glarringly reminded that you are out to make a living too you know.) They get used to the idea of you, and eventually start using your bots. Some of them might turn their nose up at it at first, but that is okay. You don't want the instant money, you want the earned money because it keeps flowing longer.
Of course if all that is to much of a gamble, you could just put up a donation section and place SMALL goals on it for the effort put into it. In the end, the more people with the free ware the better it will work.