Broker Pricing Mod

[Sigrdrifa]

Currently, I use DarqUI's broker window because it has the very helpful popup, eq2ui_popup_setprice.xml -- this shows you what the price will look like on the broker at 10%, 20% and 40% broker tax, so so far, so good.

What I'd REALLY like is a slave to go in daily and check all my items on the broker and reprice as needed, but I'm pretty sure that falls under banned automation.

Instead, I'd like a button added to the broker pricing somewhere that just says "price 1g less", and a second that is "price 1p less", referring to the displayed price of the item targeted. The amounts for the two buttons should be configurable. (Some people apparently do 1c less, but I have no use for that).

The calculation needs to know what markup the current broker is showing, so that if you are in Tranquil Sea, for example, it's 2x, so that a 10% tax item shows up as 20%. And it needs to know what the current salescrate markup is (10%, 15%, 20%), which should all be accessible because the broker screen is displaying that info.

Using DarqUI's eq2ui_popup_setprice.xml, there's trial and error involved. I pick a guessed value in plat and manually adjust up or down with the spinner, then do the same as needed for gold:

[lordebon]

There's a lot of "should" in there - last time I'd look at it getting the data out of the broker table is not easy (if even possible). Trying to combine multiple pieces of data (the broker markup) and everything on top... honestly if it's even possible I don't know if there's any UI authors left that could put it together.

Maybe someone will take it up as a challenge, but doing that much math and trying to pull that many pieces of data from that window is going to be ugly.

[Sigrdrifa]

Originally Posted by lordebon

...doing that much math and trying to pull that many pieces of data from that window is going to be ugly.

DarqUI's eq2ui_popup_setprice.xml is already doing the math of taking a number and showing it at 10%, 20% and 40%.

eq2ui_inventory_market.xml has:

<Text AbsorbsInput="false" Font="/TextStyles.Normal.NormalStyle" Location="170,26" Margin="0,0,15,0" MaxLines="1" Name="SelectedPrice" PackSize="a,f" ScrollExtent="374,20" Size="374,20" TextAlignmentVertical="Center" TextColor="#F0D080" UserMovable="true">:5f6b97aeaf09212c:[DEVL]N to seller and M to broker</Text>

<Text AbsorbsInput="false" Font="/TextStyles.Normal.NormalStyle" Location="170,43" Margin="0,0,15,0" MaxLines="1" Name="BrokerCommission" PackSize="a,f" ScrollExtent="374,20" Size="374,20" TextAlignmentVertical="Center" TextColor="#F0D080" UserMovable="true">:5f6b97ae8f12816e:[DEVL]15% to broker</Text>

I think that these are the base price and broker commission amounts being listed here. In that ":5f6b97aeaf09212c:[DEVL]N to seller and M to broker", "N" is SellerBasePrice and "M" is CommissionAmt.

The next line has ":5f6b97ae8f12816e:[DEVL]15% to broker", and that value can be harvested to give CommissionPercent. If we can't get CommissionPercent there, then:

IF (M/(N+M) <= 0.10) THEN CommissionPercent = 0.10

ELSE IF ((M/(N+M) > 0.10) AND (M/(N+M) <= 0.15)) THEN CommissionPercent = 0.15

ELSE IF ((M/(N+M) > 0.15) AND (M/(N+M) <= 0.20)) THEN CommissionPercent = 0.20

ELSE IF (M/(N+M) > 0.20) THEN CommissionPercent = 0.40

END IF

(There's probably a CEILING expression that would do this more neatly, but I am still on my first cup of coffee).

The last bit of information needed is the commission percentage of the sales crate in which the player has an item highlighted. I think I see where the window gets the info on what kind of sales container it is:

<Text AbsorbsInput="false" Font="/TextStyles.VeryLarge.VeryLargeStyle" Location="3,1" Margin="1,-1,1,1" Name="NameText" PackLocation="fixed,fixed" ScrollExtent="382,26" Size="382,26">:5f6b97aedd6c46d8:Pristine strengthened leather backpack</Text>

There are only three sales containers that discount the broker commission, so far as I am aware:

3-year veteran reward, 40-slot, commission 10%:

• \aITEM -1057013449 1254478062:Veteran's Display Case\/a
• \aITEM 1865448438 125174344:Veteran's Display Case\/a

9-year veteran reward, 50-slot, commission 10%:

• \aITEM -1147436452 -800540100:Expanded Veteran's Display Case\/a
• \aITEM 1453137537 -1753555612:Expanded Veteran's Display Case\/a

LON Loot, 30-slot, commission 15%:

• \aITEM -1961269843 -1120555058:Legend's Display Case\/a
• \aITEM -844465566 -201343624:Legend's Display Case\/a

Then all you'd need are these relationships:

TotalSellerPrice = SellerBasePrice + CommissionAmt

TargetSalePrice = TotalSellerPrice - ReduceByAmount

MySalePrice = TargetSalePrice - (TargetSalePrice * MyBoxCommissionAmt)

MyDisplayedPrice = MySalePrice + (MySalePrice * MyBoxCommissionAmt)

[Drumstix42]

You can't do string modification at all in the UI.

You can't parse for "X", and you can't truncate things you don't want from a string.

There exists tricks for some small situations, but I haven't looked at this closely enough to give a better answer. For example, you could do "full" string comparison, and create checks for every possible combination (usually a lot of work)

[Darqwood]

Sigrdrifa, this is a good idea and a nice challenge. A few things have been done in the attached file:

1) Platinum max was increased to 9999 per your suggestion.

2) Using the spinners past 0 and 99 will roll the other denominations up or down automatically. For example if you have 1p, 0g, 0s, 0c and you spin copper down by one, you will get 0p, 99g, 99s, 99c. This should ease incremental re-pricing in a lot of cases. A not-so-obvious time saver is that once you have the text cursor in one of the denomination boxes, you can use the Tab and Shift-Tab keys to move between the text inputs without having to click the mouse.

3) Commissions are reduced by 50% in the case of the two Veteran's displays, and 25% in the case of the Legends display. Commission percentages turn green whenever there is a reduction due to one of these containers, and you also get an indicator on the window that shows the percentage. If you are in a container that doesn't have a reduction, you get the standard white 10/20/40. The three containers you listed are the only ones that will trigger the reductions. If there are other commission-reducing displays, they will have to be added to the window code manually.

This is everything but your "1p less/1g less" pricing feature, which I'm still thinking about. Please give the updated window a try and let me know if anything is wonky. It's definitely beta code until I'm sure everything is functioning 100%.

[Sigrdrifa]

Originally Posted by Darqwood

Please give the updated window a try and let me know if anything is wonky. It's definitely beta code until I'm sure everything is functioning 100%.

Will do! I make my in-game living these days mostly by harvesting and then selling shinies I have collected along the way, and I reprice those suckers every day at least once It's sad but true that spiders from Stormhold have been financing my 100 conjy's master-spell purchases.

[Sigrdrifa]

Originally Posted by Darqwood

2) Using the spinners past 0 and 99 will roll the other denominations up or down automatically. For example if you have 1p, 0g, 0s, 0c and you spin copper down by one, you will get 0p, 99g, 99s, 99c. This should ease incremental re-pricing in a lot of cases....

3) Commissions are reduced by 50% in the case of the two Veteran's displays, and 25% in the case of the Legends display. Commission percentages turn green whenever there is a reduction due to one of these containers, and you also get an indicator on the window that shows the percentage. If you are in a container that doesn't have a reduction, you get the standard white 10/20/40. The three containers you listed are the only ones that will trigger the reductions. If there are other commission-reducing displays, they will have to be added to the window code manually.

The change to the spinners is utterly brill! That helps a lot more than you'd think. I'd been tabbing between the boxes. The special sales displays are showing pricing exactly as you described, so this looks good to me so far!