Vendor Search Option

[cognitiveprimate]

I would sell both my testicles for an intuitive search update to vendors. I've spent soooooo much damn time on there looking for very specific resources and clicking on steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel. Long story short, it sucks.

[Pyrozest]

enthusiasm noted bud

[Centurionforce]

I would sell both my testicles for an intuitive search update to vendors. I've spent soooooo much damn time on there looking for very specific resources and clicking on steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel after steel. Long story short, it sucks.

LOL well...dont place your testicles on the bazzaar , note sure how anyone would search for them. What category would it be under?

[Pyrozest]

Harvesters or Components.

[Centurionforce]

Harvesters or Components.

I would have thought it would be generic items

[Pyrozest]

Depends if you think they are special or not. and how did we get on this topic?

[Hezzikiah]

I would sell both my testicles for an intuitive search update to vendors.

I will start the bidding at 500k. Wouldn't ever need to use them but they make a great decoration.

[Centurionforce]

Time for me to bump this up again, and start another discussion on this

[zackjdl]

I don't know how difficult this would be to implement but I highly support this!

[Pyrozest]

Yes I do too. Only of late because I need to search for resources to grind up crafting professions and its been a pain looking through the galaxy for the available resources and for the best prices cause I am broke all the time.

[Trixie]

They had implemented something or another, I can't remember if it was just better categorizing (so you didn't have 5 bajillion pages in 'misc') or if there was indeed a search feature, or both. (it's been a long time). But I do know, from talking to the devs working on the game at the time that it was not a simple thing. They did it, but it broke the entire bazaar several times during internal testing. So, I would love to have either change (or both) but I'd rather have a working bazaar, so keeping this on the 'todo' list is a great idea for when they have time and bodies to test it.


*disclaimer, the preceding was my opinion only, your mileage may vary.

[AScic1]

Yess! Searching through 50-60 pages of factory crates just to see if something is even being sold gets pretty old. Love this idea!

[foolishwtf]

http://swgawakening.com/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4724

[Anlbrd]

Purely so the Devs see more supporting this wish - +1

[Acroyear]

In searching around for the location of an old player city for Celt, I accidentally came across the following patch notes from when this feature was implemented in live.

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Publish 14.1
March 24, 2005
Galaxy-wide Vendor Search is here!

Have you ever wanted to search for an item to buy without having to travel across the entire planet randomly checking vendors? Well now you can! We have enhanced the functionality of our bazaar terminals to include the ability to search all player vendors for items you may be looking for. This new feature will greatly improve how vendors are handled in the game. Read on for more information.

Overview
The purpose of vendor search function is to allow vendor owned items to be searched from anywhere in the galaxy. This will include the following functions:

Each vendor owner can decide whether to allow his or her vendors to be searchable in the market. There is an option for vendor owners to turn on/off the search option on his or her vendor. The vendor owner will be able to find current search option settings for each of his or her vendor(s)
When a vendor owner turns on the search option, a player should be able to go to any bazaar and list all items owned by this vendor
When a vendor owner turns off the search option, the vendor is no longer listed in the galaxy-wide network search. With this search option turned off, vendor owners have the ability to conduct private auctions. Players will need to physically go to the vendor and click "Use Vendor" to list items from this vendor.
Vendor Status
For all the existing vendors, the default option is set to no. Players have to go to their vendors and enable this search option. For all future vendors, this option is set to yes by default. For vendor owners to check if the search option is on or off do the following:

Select the Vendor you wish to turn search on/off for
From the radial menu choose "Vendor Control"
Once you have selected "Vendor Control" then choose "Status"
A pop-up window will show if the search option is on or off

[Dustindps]

Please. This is needed.

+1

[ExodiaJedi]

The feature of the vendor search i miss from live (i dont remember if it was pre CU or CU) was when you filtered by item type ie pistol >> then you could filter by specific weapon DL44 / FWG 5 [which showed both regular and feather] / Republic Blaster [also showed modified repub] ... etc

[Anlbrd]

I think my issue rather than being weapons are things that the Bazaar sees as identical items.

"Clothing attachment" - Really, what use is that information?