Marketplace 2.0: Now Online in Beta Mode

Greetings Everyone,
So I've launched the new marketplace mode in beta mode. Things will be broken. If something acts funny please let me know and don't force it to do something it doesn't want to do. Please don't jimmy rig, or edit things if you don't know what your doing. A lot of people spent countless hours getting this new system in place.

GENERAL RULE: If you don't know how to use it, don't. Or ask someone to teach you how.

There is no AJAX in this new setup and all browsers should use it just fine. There's nothing in here that requires special browser based tools.

What's New?
1. Resources are no more. Everything is priced off Family Vault Credits. No more converting.

2. The Marketplace Home is your base camp - All orders that you can fill (Based on the tradeskills you specify in your Edit Characters part of your profile) will be shown in the Available Work Orders. On the right you'll see your workbench, and under than your current orders.

3. Browse by Type - You can now browse stores based on what your looking for. Or you can use the Item search at the top of the page to find a specific item.

Order from Item Page - All orders are placed through the items page. Large orders will be split into several smaller orders to give more people a chance to fill orders. If a person offers to supply the materials the cost / reward is cut to 10%.

All Augments Are Player Responsibility - Players must acquire their Augments before they place their order. When you place your order you will select No Augment or I Have Augment.

Dynamic Pricing - All items are now relative to the cost of the materials to make them. In addition a 25% assembly fee has been added for every step a crafter must be involved.

Recipes Now Viewable - All Recipes may be viewed on the item page.

When Providing Materials To A Crafter - You will receive an email when your order is claimed with a list of materials to send to a particular character. This character is based off of most recently played and matching the Tradeskill requirement of the item. If No character is available then it will list the crafter's handle on the website and you can look them up under Member Search at the top. You can then view their character lineup and choose a character to contact about the materials.

This is all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll still be plugging in additional features over the coming weeks but it should be functional.

Foghladha

» Edited on: 2012-02-27 20:53:19

*crosses fingers* I will help out with database stuff Fog and anything else, just let me know :)

The hard part is going to be filling in recipes for all 2,000+ items in the system. That's going to be the time consuming part that I'm hoping to mobilize an army of crafters to accomplish.

Could you use a online excel spreadsheet to allow players to help input the data as you work on the updates?

no there will be a form on the site that will input them directly. It will be more clicking "Edit" on the item page and then updating them. However you will need to be Artisan Rank 3 to edit. Don't want every joe bob and sue messing up the database.

Too bad Trion does not provide a spreadsheet or a database file of the data.

They may have something on their FTP but from what I've seen nobody covers the details like we do. Rune's don't even have properties in those feeds. Our system is the most complete collection out there. And anyways I want to get the pricing right.

Where can I find my Artisan rank? I would like to help! I have all professions at 300 and dual monitors :) ~Delicious

» Edited on: 2012-02-16 02:43:53

Delicious: Go to "Membership > My Profile" and look at your Family Record: Artisan number. That number is your rank. -Bes

Your level also shows up for Artisan when you go to the Marketplace. It is shown with your level and the progression through that level just above the bar for choosing to order or fill orders on the screen. On the profile it will put the number under the "level" column in the list of what level you are for all things you can currently level in within the family based on participation, leadership and your contributions.

I'm going to pull everything offline tomorrow to get started over the weekend. I've got a lot of stuff to convert over and need as much time as I can to get the foundations setup. Plus some of the things i've changed already are conflicting with the existing system.

I have an order that I will fill tomorrow how will this affect orders on the workbench? Also how will, if it does, affect orders put in during the past? Kittara

Everything that is not complete by tomorrow afternoon will be reset. All orders will be canceled and access to the marketplace will be denied. Everything you have done in the past remains. Once the new system comes online everything will resume as normal. I will be going over a lot of the changes at the meeting on saturday as well as in the March Ceannard Notes.

I would be happy to help enter data.

I've started the conversion process and things seem to be going well. Still need to build out some sections. At our Saturday meeting I'm going to need at least 1 person from each profession with 300 skill and the ability to chase down any recipe they don't have.

UPDDATE: Sorry guys I intended to finnish this up tonight but i took a nasty hit to the head today and has given me quite the headache. I wont be able to finish this till sometime this week. As you can see by the homepage the ordering part is functional i'm just in process of getting the queue / claiming process working right. were close just a bit longer.

D: I hope everything's ok!

I'll be around so if you need to test more things with you like we did the other day, just get my attention. This is looking pretty slick and probably the coolest thing any guild has. Just another thing that makes Gaiscioch awesome! Thanks to all the industrious beavers who helped do input to the database. =) Between us all there is over 1300 items in there from simple to major recipes.

I hope you are ok... you really can not take chances with head butts... You take care of yourself ..your health is more important than market right now... I hope you saw a Dr....

Indeed, man. Don't take that stuff lightly. Just take things slow. We'll be fine just so long as you take care of yourself :)

I have do idea if outfitter got finished but do to a bad mother board and replacement i had to redo windows and lost the links to fill out recipe items. If you still need the work done pls send me the links.

I'm gathering things are going well. 65 Orders Filled and delivered in less than 24 hours. Not bad :)

I must be missing something, but I cannot seem to view the items that are gathered, rather than crafted. i.e. Titanium bars, witchweave cloth, drakefoot seeds, etc. Also, there is a broken link in the mini-bar at the top of the screen (post log-in) that lists the individual requirements for the next rank. Under Contribution Points => Earn Contribution => Provide Crafting Materials. The PCM portion of this chain goes to a broken link.

Love the new marketplace! Thanks Fog for making it happen. Also thanks to all those who helped with the database. You did an awesome job!

Elaborate on the first paragraph. If you go to Directory you can click on Metal under Mining (http://rift.gaiscioch.com/marketplace/mining/metal.html) and all the Bars as well as Raw materials are there. Cloth is under General Goods as no tradeskill is required to collect it. Bolts of Cloth are under Outfitting as they require an Outfitter to make. Alternately you can type what your looking for into the Search Items box up top and get to it as well. Im still tracking down all the links pointing at the old system. My biggest concern was getting the thing up and working again. I plan on adding your Workbench items to that dropdown soon.

Right, but what that shows is what's available to request. I'm looking for what's been requested and needs to be filled. It's possible that I've misunderstood something and you wiped all the requests and started new? In that case, there wouldn't be any orders to fill for those types of items. BTW, the new system looks very nice. Thanks to you and the folks who updated the database. :)

» Edited on: 2012-02-28 19:21:47

Yes all orders in the old system were wiped out. All points previously spent were also wiped out. Every item was repriced based on materials usage. We've actually had over 120 orders filled in the first 24 hours the new marketplace has been up. All pending orders are available on the Markeplace home page. If there's something available it will show there. The main list snaps to what you have set on your characters. Then you can mouse over Show All Orders to see the full list. So Butchers will see Butchering requests, Weaponsmiths will see Weaponsmith requests and Rune Crafters wont see Armorsmith requests (Unless they are marked armorsmith as well). So your homepage should only show things you can fill. Even people with NO TRADESKILLS will see items from time to time that need gathering like Cloth, Eternal Planar Dust, Rift Loot items, Regents, Augments etc.

Please reduce the total maximum order request for Brilliant and Lightsbane Diamonds to 10, as they were before. Those items are in high enough demand that it would have a very serious negative effect to our market if multiple people were to create requests for 100 of those. It's bad enough as it is currently with one person requesting 100 of each (200 total).

I have tried Chrome, IE8 and multiple computers to no avail. I am unable to claim work orders, but am able to request. I have cleared chaches etc. Any ideas?

See me on vent mallade, not sure why your having problems. We had over 120 orders filled in the first 24 hours. I'm sure we can figure out whats up.

found a bug with the removal of dormant member orders that made things unclaimable. Fixed.

Brilliant - working now, thank you sir!

Need the recipe added for darkcloth belt. It is a dropped one from dungeons.

Added Average Time to item completion to all items that have been crafted in the past 2 months.

Woah! nice update fog! I will make sure to check out the new marketplace system. I am very happy the Resources system is no more, I kinda hated it ;)