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Auctionator / Auctionator

The Auctionator addon for World of Warcraft.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/auctionator
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Reduce price volatility caused by bait listings #1562

Open Fylwind opened 2 months ago

Fylwind commented 2 months ago

What version(s) of WoW are you using?

Retail

What problem are you experiencing that led to you asking for this feature?

There's a lot of many bait listings for commodities that skew the price downward. I'll often see listings like this, where 0.1% of the listings are at an unreasonably low price:

What solution would you like?

It would be useful if the market price was computed using a (configurable) percentile or some other more robust statistic instead of based on the minimum price.

Any alternatives you can think of?

Alternatively, it could be computed using some hard-coded ranking, e.g. pick the N-th lowest price, where N is configurable.

Anything else?

No response

zrb437 commented 2 months ago

What about two price informations (in tab and tooltip), one with "lowest price" and one with "median price"?

Fylwind commented 2 months ago

I don't think median is as useful as, say, a low percentile such as 1%ile. Also, the main motivation for this is integration with other addons that use the crafting price like CraftSim, so ideally it should be compatible with that protocol.

Thaodan commented 2 months ago

IMHO at least for retail the default should be to not undercut. There is no reason to undercut another person in retail.