Discussion Thread for Price Check

[mycroft]

Hey Mycroft!

could i put in a request to set min max prices for all items in a particular box at once?

I craft a lot of spells and price spells of the same tier in a similar fashion, but typically there is nothing to compare them to on the broker.

this would greatly assist me!

thanks again,

quan

Done and released today , only maximum price for now though.

 

[mycroft]

Updated to include a Box Minimum Price option , you will have to re-set up your maximum prices in the admin tab if you started using this mornings updated version.

 

[quan]

How to

OK so in the admin tab i set the min max prices for box one and clicked save.

I than went to the sell tab and started scanning with box 1 checked and it loads all of my items, but doesnt price correctly based upon values set in the admin tab.
what am i missing?

Thanks again!!!!!

i fixed most of the issues by having the max and min prices boxes checked in the sales screen, but it still seems to set a max price higher if the item is available on the broker for some higher price.

also just to ensure i am using it correctly on the sales page the text commands mean the following...

*** processing *** - program is working
*** paused *** - program is thinking
*** waiting *** - program is done waiting for my next command

for a while there everything i saw "paused" i was trying to un-pause it

again, thanks for the help!

 

[mycroft]

Paused means your mouse cursor has moved off the broker window
Processing = running
Waiting = waiting for next button press or exit.

Box 1 , did they already have individual min/max prices set for those items , that takes priority.

Do you have the option to increase your price to match a higher price set?


Turn Logging on , re-run the script and then post the top part of the log that shows what options you have set.

 

[quan]

perfect!

you were right...

i had that match max checked and it was breaking outside my box min max range.

this now works great!

thanks so much!

the funny thing is i had no idea moving off the broker window paused it. i just thought it took FOREVER to run lol.

now that i know this, it is very very very nice indeed. lol

i knew i was doing something wrong.

 

[mycroft]

you were right...

i had that match max checked and it was breaking outside my box min max range.

this now works great!

thanks so much!

the funny thing is i had no idea moving off the broker window paused it. i just thought it took FOREVER to run lol.

now that i know this, it is very very very nice indeed. lol

i knew i was doing something wrong.

Luckly while checking your possible problem I also found some old code that was doing something it shouldn't under certain obscure conditions , so it helped me find and start me working on a fix for that also 8)

 

[lostsk8r]

So I just started using this, not sure if I missed it somewhere, but I see that it will auto match the lowest market value for the item..

Is there a way to set an undercut amount for the lowest market value? I like to be the cheapest on the market since I harvest a lot, or at least the first name on the list and being equal to the lowest market value doesn't always put me as the first (or top) name on the list for that material.

Other than that, very impressed and thank you for your effort and time.

 

[Kannkor]

So I just started using this, not sure if I missed it somewhere, but I see that it will auto match the lowest market value for the item..

Is there a way to set an undercut amount for the lowest market value? I like to be the cheapest on the market since I harvest a lot, or at least the first name on the list and being equal to the lowest market value doesn't always put me as the first (or top) name on the list for that material.

Other than that, very impressed and thank you for your effort and time.

Well.. that has been discussed in this very thread MANY times.

In short of it: Having bots continually undercut people would upset a lot of people, thus resulting in petitions, which lead to investigations, which leads to warnings/suspensions/bans.

 

[lostsk8r]

Well.. that has been discussed in this very thread MANY times.

In short of it: Having bots continually undercut people would upset a lot of people, thus resulting in petitions, which lead to investigations, which leads to warnings/suspensions/bans.

Ah, sorry for wasting your time. I actually thought about this exact idea earlier and how annoying it might be if others were doing it, thanks for looking out.

 

[lostsk8r]

Alrighty so I like this but Ive noticed that sometimes someone will post a harvest for 2c and i'll price match that.. when they have 2 of like meat and i have 100 of meat, then the next two prices are like 40 silver..

When that cheaper option is clicked, but no item is highlighted is that for everything? is items as in items on the broker in the list, items per one salesman, or how many stacks?

It's hard to narrow it down without going resource by resource, if i have like regular ore i have 1000 of then when i say cheaper is that like 2 people cheaper or just the 2 stacks of the next cheaper person below me or 2 ore pieces?

but then when it comes to like brellium ore (rare), is it the same principle?

do i need to just go hand by hand and what do you think in your experience is a good # of items cheaper before price check? I mean the program is really sellin shit but when I see someone list shit for 2c and I price check from 40s to 2c its like /smack

I mean sure there's minimum and maximum price, but thats gonna be PER item I'd have to go by.. and even then prices fluctuate a lot I cant imagine what limits to set for regular harvest items.. seems silly. I did set a limit to my brellium ore, I bought some for 7p and resold half for 12p, making the min limit 12p, but thats b/c I set it so I make profit still, but on things like regular harvests (wood, ore, food etc) the prices are all over..

I'm also starting to think price checking in the morning is BAD, seems to be LOW prices in the morning lately.

 

[Wishbringer]

Line 281 in myprices.iss:

German name for veteran's display case = old "Veteranen-Vitrine" has changed into new "Veteranen-Schaukasten"

 

[mycroft]

Line 281 in myprices.iss:

German name for veteran's display case = old "Veteranen-Vitrine" has changed into new "Veteranen-Schaukasten"

Changed in 0.15d

 

[mycroft]

Alrighty so I like this but Ive noticed that sometimes someone will post a harvest for 2c and i'll price match that.. when they have 2 of like meat and i have 100 of meat, then the next two prices are like 40 silver..

When that cheaper option is clicked, but no item is highlighted is that for everything? is items as in items on the broker in the list, items per one salesman, or how many stacks?

It's hard to narrow it down without going resource by resource, if i have like regular ore i have 1000 of then when i say cheaper is that like 2 people cheaper or just the 2 stacks of the next cheaper person below me or 2 ore pieces?

but then when it comes to like brellium ore (rare), is it the same principle?

do i need to just go hand by hand and what do you think in your experience is a good # of items cheaper before price check? I mean the program is really sellin shit but when I see someone list shit for 2c and I price check from 40s to 2c its like /smack

I mean sure there's minimum and maximum price, but thats gonna be PER item I'd have to go by.. and even then prices fluctuate a lot I cant imagine what limits to set for regular harvest items.. seems silly. I did set a limit to my brellium ore, I bought some for 7p and resold half for 12p, making the min limit 12p, but thats b/c I set it so I make profit still, but on things like regular harvests (wood, ore, food etc) the prices are all over..

I'm also starting to think price checking in the morning is BAD, seems to be LOW prices in the morning lately.

Wall of text!...my eyes my poor eyes! , but I think I know what you are asking.

It'll take a while before you manage to find a decent balance between how many you want to sell and what you want your minimum price to be , you'll have to go through the items individually over time.

My rule of thumb is , always run the script in the afternoon after the morning rush has blown by with all the 'dump after harvesting for overnight and price lower than everyone else' sales have gone through.

I find that only applies to weekdays though , weekends seem to be better for higher priced raws sales.

As to what the 'number before match' should be , I can't say , it varies from server to server and sometimes from day to day , all I can suggest is you set it fairly high to start with and keep reducing it over time until you see at what number items start to sell in the numbers you want.

If you have enough boxes , you could just set a box aside for just T9 harvests (for example) and set a 'box' minimum price , then just set an 'item' minimum limit if you see certain harvests not selling at that price. to save some effort.

 

[lostsk8r]

Yeah I'm going to manually manage my harvests and use myprices for the adept etc boxes, I have 6 salesmen crates so I have plenty of room.

I did notice there was an awful lot of harvest sales going on today (at least for me), I sold out of many different things multiple times today, just in one day.. crazy.

Thanks for the help and the info though! I definately know about the morning rush now after seeing it a few days.

 

[lostsk8r]

I've been trying to fiddle around with the place items option on the first/front tab, the one for collectables and rares, I've set rares to box 1 and collectables to box 4 but when I hit start scanning it doesnt place them into the proper boxes, am I doing it wrong?

 

[mycroft]

I've been trying to fiddle around with the place items option on the first/front tab, the one for collectables and rares, I've set rares to box 1 and collectables to box 4 but when I hit start scanning it doesnt place them into the proper boxes, am I doing it wrong?

When you press place and it works through your inventory , any messages come up on the innerspace text area? '~' as is tries to place them ?

Where do they end up ?

 

[lostsk8r]

Well I did run myprices -debug and nothing in the console, it says placing items.. then doesnt do anything besides open my bags twice and then sit there, no rares go from my bag into the broker box.

 

[mycroft]

Well I did run myprices -debug and nothing in the console, it says placing items.. then doesnt do anything besides open my bags twice and then sit there, no rares go from my bag into the broker box.

There is no -debug flag on the command line , was the bag marked as 'do not sell from' by any chance?

What rares were in the bag?

 

[lostsk8r]

There is no -debug flag on the command line , was the bag marked as 'do not sell from' by any chance?

What rares were in the bag?

I have my last three bags as no sell but the rares/collectibles are in the front three. They're rares from t8 t7 and t6, all of the rares, plus collectibles. I open the program, its set to box 1 for rares, 3 for collectibles, I hit place items as you said (says in description of button that its for placing crafted items though) and it said "placing items" and opened my bags twice then stuck there..

 

[mycroft]

I have my last three bags as no sell but the rares/collectibles are in the front three. They're rares from t8 t7 and t6, all of the rares, plus collectibles. I open the program, its set to box 1 for rares, 3 for collectibles, I hit place items as you said (says in description of button that its for placing crafted items though) and it said "placing items" and opened my bags twice then stuck there..

When you exit out of myprices and go back in...are the box numbers reloaded in for those values?

I just put every tier rare in my bags from T1 to T9 , all types and they all got placed , I'm wondering if it's getting stuck on something else , I'm assuming it just sits there saying 'Placing Items' and never finishes?

The attached copy of myprices.iss has echo commands showing what it's trying to place....run this version and lets see what it's getting stuck on.

 

[lostsk8r]

Okay I put it in, it placed my rough fire emerald then went to place my diseased kobold bone but it opened up the collectibles window as if I was going to place it into my collection, then got stuck there.

Yes the numbers for the boxes appear everytime I open the program.

I closed the program and tried again, it opened up the collection window again then stayed there..

I tried it on a different character and it said placing cobalt cluster.. but never did, but it then attempted to place my no trade state of unrest collectible in my bags.. one thing is that I dont have my box 1 checked for scanning sales and matching prices (its my rare box and prefer to handle the prices myself), so would that matter? I dont think it should because the fire emerald from earlier made it into my first character's box #1 which isnt checked either.

 

[mycroft]

Okay I put it in, it placed my rough fire emerald then went to place my diseased kobold bone but it opened up the collectibles window as if I was going to place it into my collection, then got stuck there.

Yes the numbers for the boxes appear everytime I open the program.

I closed the program and tried again, it opened up the collection window again then stayed there..

I tried it on a different character and it said placing cobalt cluster.. but never did, but it then attempted to place my no trade state of unrest collectible in my bags.. one thing is that I dont have my box 1 checked for scanning sales and matching prices (its my rare box and prefer to handle the prices myself), so would that matter? I dont think it should because the fire emerald from earlier made it into my first character's box #1 which isnt checked either.

The collectibles thing....there is not a lot I can do about that , examining the collectible is the only way to see if it's already been used or not , unless I can figure out how to close the collections window if it opens up, but I'm not sure that will help anyway.

I always add my collectibles before running the script or move any collectibles I want to keep and add later into a no-sale bag before running myprices.

The No-Trade thing...I'll check that , it SHOULD know it's no-trade and ignore it as I put a check in specifically for that, I'll check thats working.

This should skip the item if it's attuned / no-trade or Heirloom

if !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].Attuned} && !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].NoTrade} && !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].Heirloom}

The box thing , no , it "shouldn't" matter.

To me it looks like it's the collections window opening up thats stopping the script and causing the problems anyway.

 

[lostsk8r]

The collectibles thing....there is not a lot I can do about that , examining the collectible is the only way to see if it's already been used or not , unless I can figure out how to close the collections window if it opens up, but I'm not sure that will help anyway.

I always add my collectibles before running the script or move any collectibles I want to keep and add later into a no-sale bag before running myprices.

The No-Trade thing...I'll check that , it SHOULD know it's no-trade and ignore it as I put a check in specifically for that, I'll check thats working.

This should skip the item if it's attuned / no-trade or Heirloom

if !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].Attuned} && !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].NoTrade} && !${Me.CustomInventory[${PSxvar}].Heirloom}

The box thing , no , it "shouldn't" matter.

To me it looks like it's the collections window opening up thats stopping the script and causing the problems anyway.

I'll check it out, it doesnt always do that, I do collect most of the collectibles on my main character but I use other characters to sell also so I dont get bothered on my main character about things I have for sale, it doesnt always pop up the collectible window thats actually the first time I've seen it. Where would I put that code? or are you saying its already in there?

 

[mycroft]

I'll check it out, it doesnt always do that, I do collect most of the collectibles on my main character but I use other characters to sell also so I dont get bothered on my main character about things I have for sale, it doesnt always pop up the collectible window thats actually the first time I've seen it. Where would I put that code? or are you saying its already in there?

It's already in there , code was added to close the collections window now as well , fingers crossed that helps with collectibles not already used.

 

[mycroft]

Since the last ISXEQ2 update , has anyone else noticed the script 'choking' on certain items when trying to place crafted items on the broker?

It happened to me a few times , but I can't replecate it any longer for some reason.

 

[Allblacks]

Yes i have noticed that i run it on the character with the house ie: has many bags. I have not being able to dreak it down to something common it seems to just stop wehn it feels like it.

At one stage i thought it was due to food/drink of the same type being in multiple bags but it didn't turn out to be that.

I'll take more notice in future since more than myself is having the problems, apart from the character with 5 bags stopping i dont have any common faults.

Blackie

 

[mycroft]

Part of the problem seems to be the flags (ATTUNED , LORE etc) for the items in the characters inventory aren't set the first time the contents of the inventory is scanned by a script.

If you set up an inventory array and go through it echoing the ATTUNED flag , the very first run through you will get NULL being echoed all the time.

2nd and every time after that you run the script you get TRUE / FALSE echoed correctly.

It's the lack of TRUE / FALSE on the initial run thats causing the script to choke afaik.

 

[blackee]

I've now got the script waiting till it flags that the examine window was opened before continuing , hopefully that will help with lag.

I've also added some checks for the mouse being on the broker window in the buying routine

Has the purchasing of collectables within myprices been removed? If not, where is the selection?

Thanks.

 

[insanitywiz]

It was removed long ago, due to massive overuse

 

[mycroft]

Just FYI , for those sending me messages asking , I'm STILL here , myprices is still running strong , I've just had no bug reports , no feature requests for a while so it's stayed pretty static.

One day I will go through the code and do more 'updates' and reduce the code base/use more efficient code , but right now it's a case of 'if it aint broke , dont fix it'.

 

[Busygal]

Problems with Myprices

Hi there! I used to play eq2 and use myprices ALOT when I was playing a year ago... I just recently started back up and am really enjoying the game again. I updated my svn and went to use myprices to re-adjust my prices on the broker and for some reason it won't work. I have looked into the forums to see if I could find the answer but nothing jumps out at me. Here's what happens

I go to a broker and type run myprices in the innerspace window. The ui pops up and when I click start scanning (I have Auto match lower, higher and merchant checked as well as match without broker) it says "processing"... then it quickly flips through my boxes (not items but boxes) which takes make 3 secs and that it goes back to "waiting" and the start scanning button returns.

I am not currently trying to buy anything or use the craft function. I just want it to set my items up for sale at a resonable price without me going through them one at a time. Any clues as to whats happening? Thank you!

 

[mishissa]

once you setup myprices did you have the mouse curser over the broker window ?, it wont work if you dont.

 

[b0ylard]

Is there a link to a walkthrough or wikia for this?

I wanted to try & use it to pricematch, set things to sale etc, but I'm not having any luck. I imagine I'm doing it completely wrong, but these are the settings.

Any script-for-dummies guide available?

 

[b0ylard]

Ah, I check Scan Sales and everything seemed to work great.

 

[b0ylard]

WOW myprices rocks. I've just sold 30p worth of stuff in the last hour.

Edit: Make that 75

 

[mycroft]

WOW myprices rocks. I've just sold 30p worth of stuff in the last hour.

Edit: Make that 75

Good.....there is a windows help file with images inside the myprices folder saying what each function does btw.

Don't bother with 'natural scan' for small amounts of items like that , it will just slow things down.

 

[mycroft]

Hi there! I used to play eq2 and use myprices ALOT when I was playing a year ago... I just recently started back up and am really enjoying the game again. I updated my svn and went to use myprices to re-adjust my prices on the broker and for some reason it won't work. I have looked into the forums to see if I could find the answer but nothing jumps out at me. Here's what happens

I go to a broker and type run myprices in the innerspace window. The ui pops up and when I click start scanning (I have Auto match lower, higher and merchant checked as well as match without broker) it says "processing"... then it quickly flips through my boxes (not items but boxes) which takes make 3 secs and that it goes back to "waiting" and the start scanning button returns.

I am not currently trying to buy anything or use the craft function. I just want it to set my items up for sale at a resonable price without me going through them one at a time. Any clues as to whats happening? Thank you!

Run it , turn logging on , exit , re-run it , turn logging off then PM me the log file...it's more than likely a settings problem.

Edit : just seen the date of your request , for some reason the forums didn't show me any new messages till just now..

2nd Edit : my guess (without sweeing any info / log file etc) would be you haven't toggle on 'scan sales' on the front UI screen.

 

[b0ylard]

Good.....there is a windows help file with images inside the myprices folder saying what each function does btw.

Don't bother with 'natural scan' for small amounts of items like that , it will just slow things down.

Excellent, I'll have a look. Thanks again.

 

[shaggy5]

I was wondering if there was anyway to get rid of the copper in the pricing. For example specify whether you you want to round by silver or gold? Also is ther anyway to undercut the lowest price? Such as, specify how much lower you would like an item to be - undercut by 1g, 1s or 1 cp.

 

[Lew]

i don't believe i have done anything differently but when i run myprices script, the game crashes right after it loads up. i deleted the files in isxeq2 scripts folder and updated it but it is still crashing.

has anyone else experienced this recently? eq2bot and craft are still working.

 

[mycroft]

I was wondering if there was anyway to get rid of the copper in the pricing. For example specify whether you you want to round by silver or gold? Also is ther anyway to undercut the lowest price? Such as, specify how much lower you would like an item to be - undercut by 1g, 1s or 1 cp.

There is a checkbox for ignore copper.

No , undercutting won't be implemented , it's been stated a few times previously , it would cause other people also using the script to continually undercut driving prices down raplidly.

 

[mycroft]

i don't believe i have done anything differently but when i run myprices script, the game crashes right after it loads up. i deleted the files in isxeq2 scripts folder and updated it but it is still crashing.

has anyone else experienced this recently? eq2bot and craft are still working.

Nothing has changed in the script in a while (I have an updated version on my system , but nothing major has changed there) , can't see any reason for it to crash the game..

Was it just after a patch it started , any error shown after the crash?

 

[Lew]

It has probably been a month since the last time I ran it, so it had to have been the latest patch either with lavish or eq2. I've tried the script on two different computers to rule that out and at different brokers and I'm still crashing. I do get the crash log which I have tried sending it but I'm getting an error for the file being too large...

I'm not sure if these parts help but I don't want to paste the whole thing unless you may need it.

Software: Inner Space Kernel 1.11 Build 5511 (Sat Jan 07 00:01:22 2012)
Crash: 0x21CA8ADD: Exception 0xc0000005 reading from address 0x00000000

LavishScript Execution Stack:
-----------------------------------
${Me.CustomInventory[${i}].IsInventoryContainer}
${Me.CustomInventory[${i}].IsInventoryContainer}

Running Scripts:
-----------------------------------
myprices

 

[shaggy5]

There is a checkbox for ignore copper.

No , undercutting won't be implemented , it's been stated a few times previously , it would cause other people also using the script to continually undercut driving prices down raplidly.

I am clicking the ignore copper checkbox - but most of my prices have pricing with copper. Am I issing thing or not checking something else. If you like I can screenshot the Myprices box.

Totslly mskrs sense with the undercutting - considering this is even happening without scripts like this... For instance the Scintillating Gems for Rygorr gear, the prices have dropped significantly

 

[Lew]

I switched to another character and myprices is working, so I must have something in my boxes or on the character that myprices does not like. I'll try to find out what it is.

**Edit**
So there was something in one of my broker boxes that was causing the crash but I couldn't figure out which item it was. Anyway, glad that it is still working

 

[mycroft]

I am clicking the ignore copper checkbox - but most of my prices have pricing with copper. Am I issing thing or not checking something else. If you like I can screenshot the Myprices box.

Totslly mskrs sense with the undercutting - considering this is even happening without scripts like this... For instance the Scintillating Gems for Rygorr gear, the prices have dropped significantly

I will double check the ignore copper option.

 

[mycroft]

I switched to another character and myprices is working, so I must have something in my boxes or on the character that myprices does not like. I'll try to find out what it is.

**Edit**
So there was something in one of my broker boxes that was causing the crash but I couldn't figure out which item it was. Anyway, glad that it is still working

Ok , if you get the chance and feel like doing it , run the script , turn the logging option on , run a scan and hopefully the log will catch which item is causing the crash.

I can then try and see why from the last part of the log as the item name should be listed near the bottom.

 

[bjcasey]

Mycroft - Could we please get the option to set the selling price for everything in a container? Ie. Box 3 has all masters in it and I want to price them all at 45p.

 

[mycroft]

Didn't spot this question for some reason, but in-case you haven't seen it already, the option for all items in 1 container at the same price is there already in one of the tabs.

 

[badshark]

ok love this script works awesome except and bear in mind i may be doing something wrong but isnt there a way to load my crafted stuff onto broker all i make is arrows and it looks like it should fill all my broker boxes by clicking crafted items and then clicking the place items button i have all the boxes as place but it breifly shows whats in my inventory then does nothing thanks in advance badshark

 

[mycroft]

ok love this script works awesome except and bear in mind i may be doing something wrong but isnt there a way to load my crafted stuff onto broker all i make is arrows and it looks like it should fill all my broker boxes by clicking crafted items and then clicking the place items button i have all the boxes as place but it breifly shows whats in my inventory then does nothing thanks in advance badshark

Yes , it should , I haven't used that option on that tab in a while so it may be something has broken there over time, I will check it..

In the mean time...there is a place item button on the main page that works fine.

 

[badshark]

i will retry mebbe was doing something wrong i tried that one to

 

[badshark]

ok retried place item on first page when you click place items it goes from waiting to placing items but doesn't place anything then back to waiting

 

[mycroft]

ok retried place item on first page when you click place items it goes from waiting to placing items but doesn't place anything then back to waiting

Just an idea , try setting one of the boxes as the main box for the arrows and leave the rest as 'place' , might be something I missed out when testing it.

 

[smitie]

Any updates on this Script? I've been trying to use it as of late and sometime it works other times it puts all NULL into the file.

 

[bjcasey]

Any updates on this Script? I've been trying to use it as of late and sometime it works other times it puts all NULL into the file.

What are you trying to do?