Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OK so i ran a search and didn't see any thing relating to my topic.

I was ordering pizza for a long weekend of gaming and it dawned on me that the market doesn't have what any modern day site that you can order from does.....a CART. A cart would allow you to add the items you want and come out with the total and it include multiple stacks of items all for 1 check out rather than going item by item. Only problem i can see if the fact that the market is so Dynamic compared to a pizza site as people are adding to and taking from all the time, which i figure when it goes to check the items at check out it, a pop-up would tell you if the item is no longer there for that price. Currently though when we buy an item via buy order it will automatically buy any sell orders put up under its price at that sell orders price.

Currently the market is you find 1 item, pay for it, it delivers. So in the case of my pizza it would be:
Order xtra beef & cheese pizza > check out
Order 2 2-Ltr Mtn Dew > Check out
Order Chicken Poppers > Check out
Order Mega Cookie > Check out
Order Cheese Sticks > Check out

which gives you 5 delivery guys and 5 deductions from your wallet with 5 extra deductions in taxes, in RL you wouldnt like adding up your bank account like that either.

With the Cart you would order multiple items just like RL:
Order xtra beef & cheese pizza
Order 2 2-Ltr Mtn Dew
Order Chicken Poppers
Order Mega Cookie
Order Cheese Sticks

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Check out

You get 1 delivery, 1 price and you would still have the SCC tax but that would be 1 deduction overall instead of 1 per item, since the SCC tax is based on per skill rather than a constant figure, wheres as RL taxes are a constant figure as far as a specific time goes like fiscal year to fiscal year or something gets passed like increase taxes on smokes etc.

It is my belief that this system will help with not only buying multiple items and making easier but also the estimation of something like a pilots future ship and fittings and so on. It could also lead to less pings on the server market side as instead of 5 separate pings you get 1 packaged ping with the data.

Let me know what you think and im up for additions and edits to the idea.

Yeah eBay has a cart but I was ordering my pizza when this all dawned on me and who does love pizza.

As for you first question, it's easy to get prices of 1 item or 1 stack but what I'm referring to is say you are getting your first pve ship, you can mark all of the items and get an over all price or if your doing a pvp ship you can get the price and buy it in 1 go etc.

Also the wallet deduction simplication I believe would help traders too.

I concur with this. It's something that all of us do in Eve fairly regularly without a cart, but the edition of a cart would help to streamline the market a tad and for that reason I +1.

I saw a topic earlier about having what amounts to a "Buy Fit" option when you look at a fit, I didn't actually read the thread but I think that these 2 things would be a good match for each other. Initially maybe the "buy fit" button automatically buys every module in the fit that is available at that station, then the overall usage can be looked at as well as how much it would increase server load if you were to scale it up to automatically buy every module at the cheapest price in the system or region. Gradual is good in this case.

The cart could work like a premade shopping list that sends a query to market and you accept the quote once processed.
Because EVE market is actually an auction sale and not a shopping mall with fixed prices.

Maybe we could get a "sell all" feature included as well...

This is far from the worst idea I've seen.

Cool... and while you were adding things to that cart, the item was bought by someone else forcing you to buy it at a higher price or even buy it from another region if the item is limited.

So you will say: the item is then removed from market till the transaction is complete:

So now I can then put items in the cart, taking them off the market, and allow my own sell items to get purchased for a higher price then turn around and dump the cart's contents back into the market.

So many abuses come to mind with a cart...

How is that any different than you being too slow with the current mechanic? It seems like you're grasping.
Nothing is removed from the market until the buy order is complete, you seem to imply that the idea would allow you to put all of the Jita market in your cart and hold it ransom and that is just asinine.

oO, I love it!

I can already imagine some of the "regular" combos I like to buy sitting there and just clicking 1 button to buy the whole set.

Linking it to the Saved fittings feature woulod be awesome too, there can be a "Buy All" button, it will popup with a window listing the items and the prices and then just hit confirm to buy, wham-bam-thank-you-mam! No more forgetting to buy this one module because you got sidetracked by something shiny somewhere else. (This has happened to me before, SEVERAL times lol)

yay this idea again (no one else i've seen post this idea has called it a shopping cart though) but generally to just buy whole fitted ships all at once without having to right click on all the thing and buy them one at a time i like it but anything other than it buying the cheapest of whatever it is you need in a station i think it'd be getting silly. so buying 50 fitted blah blahs in jita dead easy buying a few fitted thingies in some backwater system that no one cares about might throw up an error or two and just give you a can not compleate notice