Troll Market not Paying

[DiannaDark]

Some one else can do it if they want.

As long as I get gold sometimes, I will continue with the assumption the Troll Market is ran by Pirates.

[Azmeera]

As woepsie says, screenshots are the way to go. People have a hard time arguing with you then. Before you sell, take one, save it. After you sell, take one, save it. Put both in your message on the board and there you go--proof. (Heck, I just did it with Bigpoint...) Screenshots are your friend.

[DiannaDark]

It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't work.

It is just too much work to save every single trade.

I may do it later.

[woepsie]

Uh Azmeera, i don't know what you're trying to convince Bigpoint of, but it won't work. I've never dealt with them, but that's irrelevant. You know i'm right.

[DiannaDark]

Thank you so much.

You fixed my page so the Gold appears when I hit back after a sale at the Troll Market, would you please fix Tatsuki's to do that, too.

It makes her feel she is dealing with Troll Pirates and makes her nervous, too.

Oh, if you didn't fix it, I didn't just post this.

[st0rm]

Troll market is working just fine. I sold various amounts of different merchandise and paid me every single time. Please write down how much gold you have, how much gold you're supposed to get from the troll and check whether the sum is there.
What I have noticed though is that for some merchandise the amount is transferred right away after clicking on "sell" whereas for others the gold is transferred after clicking on the "back" button during the next step.

Cheers,
st0rm

[DiannaDark]

I am using the Comodo Dragon Browser on Hughes Net, perhaps the most horrible internet service in the world. I would not expect everyone's else's browser to operate like mine.

I am missing a Nisfit"s riveted plate helmet that I paid 82,000 Gold for on the Marketplace, it takes so long to get a missing item back. Would it be so hard to edit the Game and take the apostrophe out of each item that has one?

Why does it take so long to get a response?

Thank you so much for your very intelligent and repetitive response.

We will see.

[Azmeera]

Would it be so hard to edit the Game and take the apostrophe out of each item that has one?

Depending on how the game is coded, that could actually be a much harder request than you think. You would have to find each piece of code that refers to any and every single item that uses an apostrophe and change the name. Automating the process is problematic, because you risk stripping apostrophes by mistake from things where you want to leave them (and that result could be ugly). And frankly, there could be LOTS and lots and lots of stupid, hidden pieces of code that break when you go to make a little change like this. It takes a longer time to change names, recheck, and then playtest for problems than you'd think. Hell, it takes longer to write 10 lines of working code and check it a few times than you'd think.

Also, it doesn't really change the fundamental problem of apostrophes interfering with, well, SOMETHING being handled incorrectly. And the truth of the matter is that THAT is probably causing problems other than just disappearing items. I know we see apostrophes switched to quotation marks in PM replies. I'm sure there are other strange things going on in how apostrophes are handled. So it's really a much bigger, badder underlying issue that is probably a monster coding problem to solve.

I imagine fixing THAT withing effing up absolutely everything is going to be a joy. That is probably what is taking so long. The code all works together, or it should. Certain superficial changes aren't that hard, but you'd be amazed how easy it can be to really screw things up by changing what you wouldn't think would be a big deal.

Hopefully that helps explain from the other side why it might take a long time to see what seems like a small change. It may not make it any less frustrating, but it may make it more understandable.

Disclaimer: I have no knowledge of how DoE is coded or works. I just know that coding is a witch, and changing one or two "small" things can bring an entire game down. One little typo and before you know it, a frog spawns repeatedly and without end and the game crashes from server overload.

[DiannaDark]

Azmeera, thank you so much for your response.

All I know about computers and how they work is if a bank makes a 1,000 dollar mistake, likely it was a person's error.

If a bank or huge corporation makes a 27,000,000.000 dollar mistake it is definitely a computer error, a computer has the ability to turn a tiny miscoded line of zeros and ones into world wide destruction.

[woepsie]

Thank you so much for your very intelligent and repetitive response.

Eh? Repetitive?

Depending on how the game is coded yackady schmackady 111000001000111001 blurblurblur ...crashes from server overload.

Nerd Alert!

...a computer has the ability to turn a tiny miscoded line of zeros and ones into world wide destruction.

I got to get me one of those!