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U Wanna Die · Feb 05, 2008, 01:36 AM // 01:36

I love to merchant and trade and this idea came to me IN A DREAM! So it must be good! I think there should be special bags you can get at a merchant for like 250 gold that allow you to trade more then 7 items. They can only be used during trade and you can put 7 items in each (making 50 items included money being able to be traded at a time). They will not transfer to the trade, so the items just show up in inventory. They cannot store stuff in your inventory, just in trade. When scrolled over in trade a seperate window with pop-up at the bottom of the normal trade window with the bagged items. This could be an easy way to extend trade options, and i think it could reform the entire economy.

Kiragi Yagami · Feb 05, 2008, 01:44 AM // 01:44

actually seems like a nice idea. im sure people would just exploit it, "LOOKIT ME, IM CARRYIN A WHOLE BUNCHA ECTOS I BOUGHT OFF EBAY, ROFFLE NOOBS", but it would be a nice change. *prepares for the 12,500 armbrace items to appear*

Masseur · Feb 05, 2008, 02:30 AM // 02:30

Since it's only used during a trade and doesn't go into inventory, you can't hold anything more than you can hold normally. It's just suggesting making the trade window hold more than 7 items. Not a bad idea, but it's rare the typical person would use more than 7 slots on a trade. Also, I don't think it should be expanded any more than your actual inventory, not including the bags/pouch, I could foresee problems if it was.

MithranArkanere · Feb 05, 2008, 02:45 AM // 02:45

Hm... let's say... I'll use my issue analyzer:
"Bypass the current max 100k+7stacks price"
Hm... the analyzer that it don't like the suggestion.

It would be easier just to increase the items that fit in the Trade panel. But they set 7 spaces for a reason. Maybe the same for the 100k limit.

Yawgmoth · Feb 05, 2008, 08:16 AM // 08:16

I think this would be very hard to implement, complicated stuff, maybe even impossible.
An item slot in inventory has probably a very limited amount of data that can describe it, so you can't squeeze more into that 1 slot. A massive rework of the way item data is saved would probably be required for that.

Simple extending the trade window to more fields would be technically far far easier. And even easier than that would be allowing bigger stacks of (some) stackables than 250 of - finding room for only 1 more byte to save the stack size could allow stacks of 65,000+ items.

But who would exactly need this kind of help in trading? I think only those who want to trade things at prices above 1750 armbraces. For everything else you can do separate trades.