[AddOn] Aux - Enhanced Auction House Interface

[Valmere]

Why don't searches like "whale", "monkey", "stamina" or "resistance" bring up items with those affixes? None are shown but if you do a simple armor search all the items are there.


Edit: found this bug report from LAST YEAR. https://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?aid=2352

Why don't they fix simple stuff like this?


Edit2: You can use Aux's tooltip search to get around this bug. Thanks Bit

[Hawt]

Perfect addon, thanks!

[Bit]

Why don't searches like "whale", "monkey", "stamina" or "resistance" bring up items with those affixes? None are shown but if you do a simple armor search all the items are there.


Edit: found this bug report from LAST YEAR. https://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?aid=2352

Why don't they fix simple stuff like this?

Is this even a bug? May well be blizzlike imo. Anyways, Aux lets you sort of do this using a tooltip filter (e.g., armor/tt/of the monkey) but since it's not a blizzard query it'll still have to scan all armor pages. Of course you can narrow it down further to save some scanning like e.g., armor/cloth/head/tt/of shadow wrath.

[shadowanker]

Why don't searches like "whale", "monkey", "stamina" or "resistance" bring up items with those affixes? None are shown but if you do a simple armor search all the items are there.


Edit: found this bug report from LAST YEAR. https://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?aid=2352

Why don't they fix simple stuff like this?


Edit2: You can use Aux's tooltip search to get around this bug. Thanks Bit

Until today I've been using the standard AH and those searches work like 95% of the time. I noticed a couple items would not show up without typing the full prefix but it was rare.

Am I crazy?

[shadowanker]

Which files should I back up before I update Aux? Just history and scan?

Also would you ever consider adding an setting/option to undercut blizz-bids automatically? Maybe you could have a toggle button next to either the bid-price field or the auto-price menu.

I know you were worried about things not being intuitive, and this is the simplest solution I can think of if you decide to do it. I imagine this would be useful to everyone

[Bit]

Which files should I back up before I update Aux? Just history and scan?

Also would you ever consider adding an option to undercut blizz-bids automatically?

If an update breaks something in the savedvariables I'll explicitly mention it in this thread. Otherwise you shouldn't need to backup anything.

It is planned, but that will require a larger change in the post tab, being able to separately choose an auction for bid undercutting and one for buyout undercutting etc. There's also been a request for an option to not use bids at all and just match the buyout price which I will add in the same update but I'll need some time to figure out how to work this into the GUI.

[shadowanker]

It is planned, but that will require a larger change in the post tab, being able to separately choose an auction for bid undercutting and one for buyout undercutting etc. There's also been a request for an option to not use bids at all and just match the buyout price which I will add in the same update but I'll need some time to figure out how to work this into the GUI.

Maybe you could have a toggle button next to either the bid-price field or the auto-price menu. To switch between blizz-bid and auctioneer undercutting.

I know you were worried about things not being intuitive, and this is the simplest solution I can think of if you decide to do it. I imagine this would be useful to everyone

And perhaps you this button could toggle between more than just 2 settings, such as matching your buyout price or anything else you think of. And next to buyout you could have another on/off/undercutting toggle

So like, just click the button next to the price field on either bid or buyout to switch between settings easily, rather than having settings which try to dictate both simultaneously

This could either work in combination with the auto-pricing dropdown box, by altering how the choices effect the prices, or it could do away with the dropdown completely by instantly applying the price when it is toggled(and possibly having to toggle between more things per button).

Or it could instantly effect the price field but also "stick" for when you apply the next auto-pricing setting.

[Bit]

Soo ...
I had a great idea for how to restructure the post tab (I hope you'll agree xD).

Here's how it works now:
The pricing model dropdown is gone. The behavior is now always like it used to be in the fixed price model in the sense that your price for the item will always be remembered and Aux will never automatically change the price.
The historical pricing model has been replaced simply by a button which sets the price to the historical price.
There's now a checkbox which lets you hide the starting price. If you check it the same as the buyout will always be used for the starting price.

And most importantly, undercutting now works like this: You can undercut a buyout price by clicking on a buyout price in the listing and you can undercut a bid price by clicking on a bid price in the listing. Left click will undercut the unit price (usually what you want) and right click will undercut the stack price (usually it would make more sense to simply reduce your stack size if too many auctions have a lower stack price despite a higher unit price)

There's no longer such a thing as "selecting a row" from the listing. As a replacement the prices in the listing are now colored, indicating three special cases. A price colored in red is undercutting your current unit price and has the same stack size, a price colored in orange is undercutting your current unit price but has a different stack size and a price colored in yellow has a higher unit price than yours but is nonetheless undercutting your stack price.

This color coding is available regardless of whether you use undercutting or not and is probably the most useful new feature. It will update whenever you change a price.



As always after large post tab changes double check your prices for a while after posting and please report any bugs you may find.

[Bit]

Edit: final color coding revision, removed stack size information to make it less confusing as you can see that in the stack size column anyway.

Here's the final coding:

Red - undercuts your unit price and your stack price
Orange - undercuts your unit price
Yellow - undercuts your stack price


Some general ideas:

You will probably want to remove as much of the yellow/red as possible from the bid column as that will make you appear higher in the bid sorting in the default AH. There are two ways to do this. Reducing the price (doh, but the problem is if your stack size is much larger you will make big losses) and reducing your stack size (probably what you want if there's a lot of yellow).

For the buyout column you can probably mostly ignore the yellow but the red and orange, especially when the stack size is the same (marked green in the stack size column), you should probably undercut.

[Bit]

Small layout change, still think it looks a bit weird on the right side but oh well:



You'll need an /aux clear post or the post tab will bug out.