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Please add a feature to alert me when market orders are complete
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Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-03-15 07:48:48 UTC
I recently resubbed, and rediscovered why I gave up on this game.

I'm a trader who manages 300+ orders across three characters. It is extremely impractical to find out what orders have been completed since there is no alert or feature telling me so.

I am now ready to give up after three days. I hope my future self remembers to read this thread. Even though EVE likes to champion itself as a "free market sandbox", it's business-management UI is totally and utterly dreadful.

This is a simple feature. Please please please work on it because bleeding your eyes over a monotone list of orders is not fun.
Grumpy Owly
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-03-15 07:56:44 UTC
+1, useful trading notifications for buy/sell order completion. Could even include an option in setup wether you want to receive them.

And it must be apparent as EvEMon actually informs you of completed market orders.

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Gerrick Palivorn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-03-15 07:57:29 UTC
Yeah, a simple notification to say what order was complete, with details and all would be nice +1

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mxzf
Shovel Bros
#4 - 2012-03-15 13:26:59 UTC
Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-03-15 14:52:08 UTC
mxzf wrote:
That's what the API is for. http://wiki.eve-id.net/APIv2_Char_MarketOrders_XML


Cool, but I don't know how to use this? Am I supposed to make my own program?
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#6 - 2012-03-15 15:13:11 UTC
Yes, you can either make your own program or find one that someone else has made (try checking out the Technology forum).

It's a fairly simple matter to make a script that pulls down your chars market orders every so often, checks them against the previous list of orders, and prints out the market orders that are no longer on the new list. Yes, it is a bit of work, but it's better for players to do the simple little things like this that they can, rather than pulling dev time away from more important matters that players can't fix. If I had some free time, I would toss together a quick script for you, but I'm busy with my own stuff right now (maybe if you still haven't found anything and I get a break in my work, school, and personal projects, I'll try and tossing together).

You could also try using EVEMon's Market section. It's not horribly advanced, but it does show you what market orders are outstanding and I believe it notifies you when orders complete (though I'm less sure about that, since I haven't made many market orders lately).
Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-03-15 22:20:40 UTC
Thanks, I'll check out Evemon.
Miss Whippy
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-03-15 23:22:47 UTC
A good idea. But frankly the market interface in general could be better in a thousand different ways. Just redesign the whole UI!

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BuBBy Smith
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#9 - 2012-03-16 02:51:49 UTC
When viewing the "Market Details" (listing all the buy/sell orders) - any orders that I have placed, highlight in a different color, and then let me modify order prices by right clicking on my order on the market details screen.
Adunh Slavy
#10 - 2012-03-16 04:16:33 UTC
Good idea ... the whole market interface needs work IMO

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Nomistrav
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-03-16 12:52:53 UTC
I wouldn't mind a more intuitive, holographic map as seen in some of the older trailers (Scope broadcasts ftw). Not part of the discussion though; just an idle musing.

I, however, use Aura (mobile app) and it gives me a lot of notifications; right down to notifying me when my skill training queue is beneath 24 hours. Handy little devil.

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Momoyo
Rivinshield Trading Inc.
#12 - 2012-03-16 13:09:06 UTC
Yeh evemon notifies you when market orders are complete. Only thing is it doesnt track corporation orders you make (unless i havent figured out how to do that).