Vendor search is a broken feature in active need of repair.
I'm prepared to accept a certain amount of jank, but as far as I can tell this feature is almost completely non-functional. You can search for things using text strings, but once you start using any of the buttons to try to home in on anything specific, there's almost a zero percent chance of getting any results.
You can sort of get it to work, sometimes, if you attach as long a text string as possible. IE, searching the string "platemail tunic" while checking some properties might get a result, whereas checking "chest armor" but not including any string would not.
Other times it works better with no string at all. Searching a set of properties plus the word "ring" fails, but removing the text and letting it search every item in the game with those properties might work. Or it might not, who knows?
This kind of crap is completely unacceptable in a product people pay for. Freeshards would be embarrassed by this performance. This is a significant game feature that is completely borked and there doesn't seem to be any urgency to fix it.
Either fix this trash or admit you lack the competence and just yank it. It's comical having this whole complex array of buttons and crap that don't actually do anything useful. I'm trying to upgrade my suit and it's just impossible, the functionality I'm getting is insulting as someone who pays money for this game.
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If u try to do very specific research using the in game tool; i can understand the OP problem.
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I do know that the search continues on past the point that you get the "failure message" Many times on Atlantic I have gotten the timeout message and then 2-5 minutes later i get the results i was searching for. so it last's longer than what it appears to, but not long enough to find that search you put in. at this point I'll just "It's Atlantic" and wait for the Devs to figure it out.
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It was brit bank, luna square or advertise vendor for me, mostly.
The site was good to know the value of things, more than anything, imo.
PS: for your last message.. I totally feel you but.. this is "the" day.. the dev team of 2 been very busy on NL.. but yeah.. even ATL with NL release going to be on ice for a couple of weeks/months... years? -.-
Your timing couldn't be worse.. the best we gonna have in 2024 on prod. is what a GM can do.. like vaping NPC's
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Even adding SS it timed out multiple times before i gave up and went about my day.
Also confirm it's blazing fast on Origin.
Conclusion: VS cannot handle the sheer amount of sh!t for sale on Atlantic.
True enough, but now that they've given in on "let us use a real client" I have a lot of forum crank energy that's suddenly been freed up.
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