Vendor search is fixed
now instead of saying
"your search is too vague"
it says
"your search took too long to complete"
fixed hooray!
"your search is too vague"
it says
"your search took too long to complete"
fixed hooray!
Comments
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Vendor Search Updates
- Endless Journey accounts can no longer use the item name search
- Endless Journey accounts will now receive a 60-second cooldown between searches
- All item name searches are now limited up to three words
- Updated error messaging
- Database maintenance
Great that you did what you did....but nothing has changed. No matter what I am searching for by name I get the message.ON ATLANTIC only. Other shards...as always, are working as intended, for me anyway.
Atlantic is just TOO populated with too many vendors and I think it just overloads the system you have in place.
I know you're probably pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to fix it....but it's really bad
Currently my searches were this:
Flame
Flame Slayer
Pedestal
Taming
Taming Scroll
Essence
Spider Web
Grave
Gravestone
Dye
Natural Dye
Seed
(just trying random things to see if anything works)
I tried with and without price ranges
QFT
Oh, and IBTL
Anyway...that's not the point. That's like saying...oh well..the shard you play on is broken and you can't play on it for many many MANY months...but who cares, there are other shards to play on, right?
If something is broken, it needs fixing, plain and simple.
Now currently it's 8 AM central time and I am having no issues with Vendor Search. I have made several inquiries and have gotten results in less then a minute. I am in Moonglow at the moment.
So after searching for and finding 3 things that I have been searching for for months...I decided to go back to Luna and try another search.
The search took too long to complete, please refine your search and try again...
Try again...same message.
Went back to Moonglow and got the same message *sad face* I thought I was onto something!
Tried on different characters and nothing.
Not sure if me going to Malas broke it because it was working fine....not sure if it's because people are buying or putting things on vendors at the time of the search.
Maybe give it a few more days to sort itself out?
*shrugs* hopefully they can figure it out!
So if applying these "soft" solution do not work, perhaps they may have to consider the "hard" solution like upgrading the server cluster to handle the load - just like any overgrown website. I am not an expert in this, just sharing a thought.
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So Move now.
Jk.
That seems contrary to what the Devs actually want though as far as spreading out. They put in place "Shard Bound" so that everyone would farm dead shards which has made most of the farming being done on a handful of shards... those I would think would be "the chosen" ones and the other dead shards would eventually be removed. Less maintenance and less resources required to run all while increasing regular playing population on the other shards.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
it theres too many items at the same price, the ones over the limit dont show up. its been this way forever, but really only became an issue after commission vendors came out and more items were on search. commission vendors increased items on vendor drastically and also why vendor search is so broken. i love commisssion vendors, but it should have been foreseen that there would be much more stress on the system after their release.
Thanks for the response Bleak. Tbh, I'm fine, I can see you are working on it. I'm still able to buy equipment using properties, my vendors show new stuff in 2 minutes etc. (on Atlantic).
I think it's a shame that players are putting so much junk up, especially the 175m junk, it's stupid, pointless and thoughtless, but to be fair - Mervyn did call it, but then he would understand the thought processes
Re Commission Vendors, I love them, and I use them properly, it's enabled me to get into vendoring.
Re everyone going to Atlantic to sell, I'm now equally part of that problem, I held off for as long as I could, only put stuff up on Europa, but these days, I trudge off to Atlantic with everyone else. It isn't that 75% of players play on Atlantic, Europa has good numbers also, but it is that everyone goes to Atlantic for the market, to put all the trade in 1 place, because it just works better for players that way.
Now if there were a centralised Vendor Search that we all plugged into, maybe that would stop so much movement, and as Atlantic is over half of the database anyway, maybe that could be done? But I don't know what to say about the players all putting up junk, it is a shame they are ruining such a good system.
Centralised Vendor Search may help to off-load Atlantic, its at least one step closer in the direction of global trading without the need to login to Atlantic to add more stress to its capacity. Good suggestion!
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Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.