Vendor Search
Hi I am not sure if this classes as a bug but vendor search lately falls over nearly every time you try to search for anything lately with the message "Your Search criteria is too vague. Please refine your criteria and try again" This is naturally worst on Atlantic particularly during prime time and makes pricing items to place on vendors incredibly time consuming.This is not my searching skills I am an experienced trader and know how to find items and have often tried multiple different variations which all fail, as well as talking to other people who are having the same problem.
Thanks for looking.
Thanks for looking.
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Maybe its server could use a few more hamsters on Atlantic?
Cheers MissE
Another quirky broken system players get to figure out work-arounds for.
Has anyone tried it while facing north and eating a donut?
Would really appreciate if this gets properly fixed. Half-baked workarounds will only get you that far and won't encourage any fix at all.
I will say this:
Just because it worked for you doesn't mean it will work for anyone else. In the past, I ahve had VS give me that vague answer over and over and over, so for shits and giggles I logged in a second account, standing next to the first one, and did the exact same search and got a hit immediately.
But when I did that search again on the original account immediately after..ir was vague again.
The last vendor search I did, after about 10 vague answers, I logged in three acounts and had them all searching concurrently. Got an answer after two tries. No idea wtf is going on here, but it needs fixed
Cheers MissE
Theres 5 ways to give feedback on vendor search problem:
1: Write it on UO.com
2: Write it in patch screen when launching UO
3:Reply to this thread
4: I guess as time goes its probably a new newsletter around the corner.
5: Twitter/Facebook/Instagram
Searching for very specific things (evocaricus, for example) is very slow, then returns with the "too vague" response. I'm not sure how more specific this term can be, this is a one-of-a-kind item drop that is uber-rare.
I typically search for certain things every few days - the Evocaricus is just one of them. I also plug in "Yew" as a search term, as I collect Yew items (bunnies, snowglobes, banners, etc.) and am usually presented with a minimum of 8 crafted items as a result. I am still getting...
The search is very slow as well - almost to the point of my closing the gump and just forgetting about it. I search for items just about every day as I stock and restock my vendors, so I know there is something wrong.
I expect this from atlantic, not pacific.
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I know, first world problems... I was just really looking forward to playing today and it has not been fun.
Please fix vendor search! It's completely unusable on Atlantic.
Cheers MissE
Did my good deed for the week.
But it's still broke af, regardless
It was how you were saying it that was the problem. It is OK to say something is broken as long as you do it respectfully.
To The Honorable Whomever It May Concern;
Vendor search is broke af. It is an awesome enhancement to the game in those brief flashes of brilliance when it does work. However, they are few and far between.
If you can please work this into your timetable to take a peek at, it would be forever appreciated and we will all be willing to dance at your next wedding.
Thanking you in Advance, we are
The People Who Pay Your Salary.
ps: Any true kind of downward communication on the real status of this might stop us from getting pitchforks, tar, and feathers. (we need those for arrows instead)
search all together
Item Name
blessed or cursed if applicable
price range
item slot.
all items with mods are easily searched
super annoying. Probably has to do with the commission vendors