Broker Price Tracking Mod

[Sinbad]

Back in 2006, Talrath opened a thread here http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=6630 where he discussed a WoW mod called Auctioneer.

Like Talrath, I recently returned to EQ2 after playing other games for a while, WoW being the most recent of those. Unlike him, I preferred a different mod, WoWEcon Prices, which actually accumulated price data in an offline database from all servers, on both a per-server basis and a merged-basis, then published that data in a freely available mod that you could update as frequently as you liked. It stored the data in a saved variable file on your hard drive where it was accessed whenever you needed to know any type of information about an item, such as the vendor price, the average market price, or the high and low market prices. If you want more information about that mod, take a look at their site http://www.wowecon.com for details.

There is already a site which accumulates data like this for EQ2, http://eq2markets.com/ and it has a price search page which will present you with a stock broker style chart for either all servers or your individual server—provided they have the data uploaded for your server. They are still collecting data and rely on players to provide data by uploading their store logs—a text file that is readily readable. If this site could be persuaded to cooperate by supplying a mod author with access to downloading their data files, or even letting a mod author cooperatively publish a mod through their site, then it could save an immense amount of time and trouble.

I don't understand how it would be a violation of the EULA in any way, shape, form or fashion to create a broker mod that would access a database that was created offline, then stored on your hard drive for the purposes of trying to price your goods fairly and competitively with others.

My personal reason for wanting such a mod is not to be able to price my goods higher, but to be sure that I do not price them TOO high and thus have them sit there and make everyone think I'm a jerk. I have been gone so long that I have NO idea what the current market prices are for most items, so I don't have a feel for the market and I don't know whether someone is pricing something fairly that I want to buy or not and I don't know how to price many of the things that I make and loot. I also used it to determine which items I could safely chuck and which I wanted to be sure to hang onto when adventuring. Sometimes it is surprising what some of those vendor trash items can sell for!

Personally, I would find such a mod a god-send! So, won't someone PLEASE create it for the benefit of everyone, since it is LONG overdue?