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Originally Posted by DMN
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There is one other potential "fix" that doesn't involve boxing, which would simply allow the EC channel to have some global broadcast functionality. This would be a stronger divergence from classic than allowing an EC mule, but eliminate any concerns about boxing.
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Blue had global chat when population was low. A 1,000 person chat room is a recipe for disaster though.
Years ago I was going to make a complex auction tracker that had a live stream of the chat log, would match people, alert on price triggers, show historical trends, etc. Actually I did make it but keeping the character logged in constantly proved too tedious. It would only last a few days at most and per rules couldn't be fully automated to log back in on it's own.
A lot of people are using these tools privately. Much better stuff than anything the Wiki attempts to do. That is another part of why things are so messed up. A public tool that had better recent data would help a ton.
Imagine if you could auction one time in EC and be sure it was logged and displayed on a site like the wiki. Players could search a specific item and instead of getting historical data from a week ago they would see stuff from hours ago.
Buyers can find who has what they want and at what price. Sellers don't need to stand around auctioning for hours.