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Could we have a way to start multi buy from clipboard? Like a simple quantity / tab / type format?

this sounds Very very cool, thanks.

Soo, last i looked, the "best price" listed by the market screen...usually isn't even close. Sometimes that listing is 500% higher than the actual best price. As it appears there are some people who have figured out what the exact formula is that your system uses to pick which order is the "best price", and manage to sell items at stupid profits, if you institute this using that same not-right formula, it would cause some headache, and also rejoicing from the few that have figured out how to have sell orders up for 5x market value, yet still be listed as the "best price in region" by the market screen.

CCP, don't believe me...try it out, browse the market for things, note the "best price" value, then click "show details" and note how those values are not the same.

the multibuy window is wonderful to use. if this is an appropriate place to give some suggestions for it then here are some:

1. it would be awesome to give the ability to drag in saved fits to the window to add in all the items from it.
2. fits from a kill/loss mail as well to be dragged in and have items added in.
3. saved fits that are in the market "quickbar" when they're put into the folder there also have items added by dragging them into the window.

pretty much just add functionality to drag fits into it is what i'm saying. that's the one thing i can find right now that would be useful, otherwise it's pretty good so far.

if this isn't an appropriate place to put this suggestion i'll move it to wherever is.

I also like the multi fits but many will find the layout confusing.

Suggestion : prefill buy order volume but do not otherwise multiply them. That is If I increase the Number of orders, I increase or decrease the number of units ordered, possibly showing underneath the total required fit

So... I go looking for an oracle loss zkillboard.com/kill/49131350/#

Screenshot of multibuy www.dropbox.com/s/vqfy200yvl7rfrh/Screenshot%202015-09-19%2016.13.33.png?dl=0

Assume I think I want to buy 5 of these fit, and I have in my hanger 10 mega pulse laser II, so only want to buy 30 rather than the 40 shown. No way to do this with the current multi buy screen. I would need work out that I only should buy 3 fits of lasers, then come back and buy 6 more individually.

Instead an alternative layout might be.
As the user increases the number of orders, increase both the number to be purchased and number required for fit.
As the user decreases the number of orders, decrease both the Number to be purchased (to a minimum of zero) and number required for fit.

............................................................................................................... buy count
item ................... Number to be purchased ...............unit value ...............total value
...............................(Number required for fit )

eg from the fit above (prices from singularity)
Medium Hyperspataial velocity optimiser ..... 5 .......................100 ................ 500
..................................................................... (5)
.
.
.
Heat Sink II .................................................15..........................100 ..............1500
.....................................................................(15)
.
.
.
Mega pulse Laser II ...................................40 ..........................100...............4000
....................................................................(40)


Now, the user overwrites the number to be purchased to 30 so that pair of lines becomes
Mega pulse Laser II ...................................30 ..........................100...............3000
....................................................................(40)


Finally the user realises they would spent too much, and really only needs 3 fits after all. Reducing the fits from 5 to 3 reduces mega pulse laser II : number to be purchased and number required for fit by 16
Mega pulse Laser II ...................................14 ..........................100...............3000
....................................................................(24)

Of course some boundary validation is needed in case the user then decides to reduce the number of orders significantly. In keeping with the apparent defaults of the multi buy screen, reducing it to 1 may be suitable.

Alternatively, just overwrite the number to be purchased every time the number of orders change (with or without warning).

And I also endorse adding hulls onto the multi buy from a fitting screen.

It's great that you're working on this, when this is finished it will be a great quality of life upgrade.

Things that worked better than expected:

• I was going to say that buying from quickbar folders is not very useful because of the lack of quantities, but apparently you have an undocumented feature that already precisely matches how I store fits in the quickbar!? Setting "additional text" (a notes field) on the quickbar item to a quantity works. Good job, but why didn't you mention it?
• Fulfilling from multiple sell orders works as expected (taking the highest price of the N lowest sell orders which cumulatively fulfil your order), good job!
• No bugs with buying multiples of a fit or quickbar folder and the display showing the total separately from the unit order size is perfect.

Quibbles and suggestions:

• Pressing enter on the regional average price warning defaults to not buying rather than buying, I think most people would prefer this reversed.
• Industry materials please.
• Optionally subtract items already on the hangar floor (or better, a user specified location) from the final order please.
• Clipboard support please. I don't think anyone cares what the format is, we're willing to write our tools to fit your format.
• I know this is going against the intent of the feature a little buuuuuuuuuuuuut.... is there really any reason people shouldn't have this same convenience for making multiple buy orders? Here's my use scenario: I have a stockpile of fittings in Jita which I distribute to stations where the fits are assembled. I have a script which does an API pull to give me shopping lists of what to move to assembly stations and what I need to restock on. Some items I restock from sell orders, others are items that nobody really makes sell orders for, they're just routinely dumped to buy orders. I would like to be able to make my buy orders without all the tedious clicking in addition to buying from sell orders without the tedious clicking.

Well, some of what I write was already written in a way but I think that "voting" issues give a perspective so I will say all that I found.

Multibuy per se works fine besides some issues on the control you have over the setup. But I guess this is by design.

When you reach the limit of things you can list in the size of the multi buy window you using, you cannot drop anymore itens as when you drop them in a space that is occupied, the item is not added.

On using it with the fit manager, it is pretty much amazing. Buying works fine, the fit manager which drops the ball in the sense that it doesnt save the scripts loaded to modules so the multibuy do not buy them. Since charges are saved, I guess scripts could be too.

Actually the way that it works is it only saves charges which are in your cargo, this DOES include scripts. Anything loaded into modules, be it ammo or scripts, is not saved. If you want to save a fit, remove all charges from your modules first.

Suggestion:

Add checkboxes to the fit so you can exclude modules and hull you already have a ton of.

Change the button text to "Buy Selected"

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