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Carnifax:
I've no idea if this is something you guys have already thought of, or if it simply falls outside of Sentinels focus too much but Rhysem suggested the following on the boards and given the infrastructure you already have in place it seemed like a pretty good match to me :

Original thread is here :
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=253564


--- Quote ---Much like herostats can watch your CoH channel logs and remind you of buffs to recast, it wouldn't be that hard to write a little application to do the same, but look for market transactions (specifically the got/paid-5% pairs) and ship the data up to a big old database of transactions somewhere on the internet. Say maybe Google's appengine...

Writing such an application: not so hard. The hard part is getting people to run it.

Thoughts?
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Just thought I'd repost it here as it seems like a pretty nice concept.

Cheers,
Carni

DeProgrammer:
It's a non-TOS-violating but more inaccurate way of tracking market trends. I kinda like it. :P

GuyPerfect:
I've made a reply to the linked thread.

Basically it comes down to a matter of privacy. Having access to extended transaction histories and current posted prices puts certain users at a huge advantage to those who would otherwise be using the market, and side-stepping the devs' intentional information block is a violation of their privacy.

Technical details notwithstanding, I'm not on board with the idea of market tracking due to ethical considerations.

Aggelakis:
I think it sounds awesome. It's not looking at posted prices but sold prices. These are often very, very different numbers.

I know I often listed stuff for [vendor price + small amount extra], which then sold for anywhere from [vendor price + small amount extra] to several million inf. Some higher end pieces I listed for couple million inf and they sold for double-digit millions.

The program, as suggested in the OP, would record the final sale price, not what the item was listed as. It's looking for the (paraphrased) "You bought X for Y inf." / "You paid Z to the market." chat pairs.

GuyPerfect is talking about a different program than the OP.

CmdrAdeon:

--- Quote from: Aggelakis on February 23, 2011, 07:15:59 pm ---The program, as suggested in the OP, would record the final sale price, not what the item was listed as. It's looking for the (paraphrased) "You bought X for Y inf." / "You paid Z to the market." chat pairs.
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Except if you know what the item was sold for and how much extra the seller paid in market fees it is trivial to calculate how much they listed it for.

Fee Paid = 0.1 * Sale Price - 0.05 * List Price

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