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It would be nice if after you reach the end of whatever there is to browse/rummage in the market that you could get a little message that says:

You've looked through all the junk there is to look through today.


And you'd know you'd done just that.

By Tash at Oct 26, 2002, 10:24 AM | 0
But doesn't it all always appear randomly?  It'd still take quite a while to see everything.
By Aikao at Oct 26, 2002, 10:27 AM | 0
I don't know how it appears, but I spent an hour browsing, looking for something.  You see a lot of stuff in an hour.
By Tash at Oct 26, 2002, 11:09 AM | 0
Yup..
By Aikao at Oct 26, 2002, 11:13 AM | 0
i always assumed that the items in the market where on a randomized basis from some sort of uhm… database like contraption? :) and i assumed that items are� weighted? as in certain things appear more often (like cell phones with the same number) the longer you stay there� and things that are� rarer... only appear� well� rarely. :-P �

and i'm assumed that there are more wallets, phones, butterfly knives, ammos, pipes, etc then other more sought after items? so the more numerous �types- of items will be repeated more often then the one single rare stuffed goat ninja that�s for sale?

so i guess reaching the end of the list of avialable itmes would take a long time?

but hey that�s just my logical interpretation. say �shoosh you� if i�m wrong �

(Edited by Bias at 3:37 pm on Oct. 26, 2002)

By Bias at Oct 26, 2002, 3:35 PM | 0
Ya know, I'm not a hundered percent sure on this, but I think that's more or less exactly how it is.
By Lucien at Oct 27, 2002, 1:34 AM | 0
I love the markets.


Leave them alone, damn you all!


many an hour I've spent in the past typing nothing but browse!


By King[Fu] at Oct 28, 2002, 5:57 AM | 0
Why must you all try and divulge the secrets of our code?

Blasphemy I tell you!!!

Just know that it works, thats really all ya need to know. It works.

YES IT WORKS!

You type browse, it says you find an item, you can choose to buy it or not. You don't need to know how it finds your item…

And besides, since when do you reach the end of a busy market like that? Things are constantly being bought and traded, you don't reach the end. The command is 'browse' not 'walk_down_a_line_of_stalls_until_we_reach_the_end'. You browse, walking up and down, looking for interest.

You'd never, ICly, reach the end. You just decide to stop browsing for the day. Thats your choice.

My 3.14 cents.

By Wren at Oct 28, 2002, 6:21 AM | 0
You browse, walking up and down, looking for interest.


One thing that bothers me about the market though…there are many things I'm *NOT* interested in stopping to look at. It'd be handy if one could block certain items from one's browsing.
Would *YOU* stop and look, fascinated, at a used TruColorz Dildo in a scummy open air market?

By Murphy at Oct 28, 2002, 1:47 PM | 0
Would *YOU* stop and look, fascinated, at a used TruColorz Dildo in a scummy open air market?

hey now… i'm sure there's valid reasons to be fascinated by used dildos... but uhm.. they escape me right now. :)

anyways...

i both love N hate the market.

it's interesting to browse... you can run across some cool items if you stay there long enough and have no life... *cough* on the other hand if you're looking for a specific item... then.. it would be nice to get past the empty bics and dried tulips.

or even.. if you go to the market and find something and realise your 100c short and come back 5 mins later... its reasonable to assume that the item will still be there (unless someone snatched it up) so going back and searching for that item would be nice. :)

hrm.. here's older market threads that go over what i'm babaling about...

http://www.sindome.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=7&topic=244
and
http://www.sindome.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=7&topic=296

so i'll shoosh now.

and my only reason to be curiouse about the code is it sometimes helps me understand the limitations of the coded RP… kinda like to know where coded RP is forced to stop and fun ol' make it up as you go RP has to take over :) if that makes sense... uhm...

*wanders off back to class*

(Edited by Bias at 4:16 pm on Oct. 28, 2002)

By Bias at Oct 28, 2002, 4:12 PM | 0
Don't take it so literally. You're picking through piles of shit, you reach down into a box, you come up with a Dildo. You're not interested, you throw it back.

A glint of silver catches your eye, oh oops, it's only a lighter. You ignore it. It's entirely realistic, and the vendors of course ask you to buy as soon as you glance at or touch something. There's TONS of other shit you're not looking at.

The market roX! More power to it and its coders. I browse for loooooong periods of time.

Looking for something specific that is scarce? Ask one of the big-wigs, or even a NPC if they know where to get it!

By Tylissa at Oct 28, 2002, 4:36 PM | 0
Quote: from Bias on 4:12 pm on Oct. 28, 2002
or even.. if you go to the market and find something and realise your 100c short and come back 5 mins later… its reasonable to assume that the item will still be there (unless someone snatched it up) so going back and searching for that item would be nice. :)

Actually, if you leave before browsing for anything else and come back with the money later, you are still doing business with that person and can buy it without searching for it again.

By Hirononbu at Oct 28, 2002, 6:37 PM | 0
You have to wonder though:

Is it supposed to be like that?

OR

Is it just a flaw in the coding that lets you get an advantage?

I got in trouble for abusing code for just this type of dilemma, so don't get caught with your pants down. ;)

By Hunter at Oct 28, 2002, 9:44 PM | 0
Yup, that sounds like a loophole to me.  A good useful one, but still a crack in the code.
By Molochai at Oct 28, 2002, 10:38 PM | 0
Ok then, how about the ability to go back to the vendor that you saw the item you wanted at?

browse smiling lady

By Max at Oct 30, 2002, 4:34 AM | 0
There is probably more than one smiling lady.  I actually thing the person who you find it from is random, because I'll see the same item, twice from different people.
By Hirononbu at Oct 30, 2002, 7:35 AM | 0
:biggrin:
By Hunter at Oct 30, 2002, 11:08 AM | 0
Wow hunter, that last post was very informitave, thank you for your insight on things, my mind has been expanded beyond all belief…

Well... as far as my feeble mind is able to comprehend anyways.

By Lucien at Oct 30, 2002, 11:33 AM | 0
We've got a market in Melbourne, Australia here, that the last time I went, it took me -5- hours to get through all of the stalls and stuff, so everyone should quit there bitching and RP with me instead.
By Lujan at Oct 30, 2002, 3:54 PM | 0
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