Currently there is no way to specify a non-relative price, which may not be very intuitive for people unfamiliar with the bot, As such it may be worth considering prefixes for relativity.
A percentage sign following the modifier shows perfectly well that the sellers’ or buyers’ price is x% relative to market price; That is perfect. However, if a user puts in a price modifier with no symbols, it is simply added on top of the current market price. It seems logical to use +0.05, -0.05 etc when it is clear that the variable is a price modifier. But, that is only mentioned in the help info. Slash commands would show that it is indeed a modifier whenever a user goes to type in a number but until then UX should be considered.
One way to go about this would be to enforce the use of symbols for prices relative to market price and the use of no symbols for a hard-set price. But, once again UX; people who are now becoming familiar with the bot know that they don’t need to put a +0.01 to sell at MP+0.01 they can simply type 0.01. So a way to keep that functionality but allow for non-relative prices would be to see if the users price modifier is within ~20% of the market price. Examples below help convey this concept.
MP of Q3 Power: 0.246, Current Behaviour:
Resource
Quality
MP
User input ("modifier")
Relative
Result
Power
Q3
0.246
-2%
MP-2%
0.241
Power
Q3
0.246
-0.015
MP-0.015
0.231
Power
Q3
0.246
+0.005
MP+0.005
0.251
Power
Q3
0.246
0.240
MP+0.240
0.486
Desired Behaviour:
Resource
Quality
MP
User input ("modifier")
Relative
Result
Power
Q3
0.246
0.240
N/A
0.240
Power
Q3
0.246
0.248
N/A
0.248
Selling above MP is an unlikely edge case however this can certainly be an improvement for people setting non-relative prices below MP
Currently there is no way to specify a non-relative price, which may not be very intuitive for people unfamiliar with the bot, As such it may be worth considering prefixes for relativity.
A percentage sign following the modifier shows perfectly well that the sellers’ or buyers’ price is x% relative to market price; That is perfect. However, if a user puts in a price modifier with no symbols, it is simply added on top of the current market price. It seems logical to use
+0.05,-0.05etc when it is clear that the variable is a price modifier. But, that is only mentioned in the help info. Slash commands would show that it is indeed a modifier whenever a user goes to type in a number but until then UX should be considered.One way to go about this would be to enforce the use of symbols for prices relative to market price and the use of no symbols for a hard-set price. But, once again UX; people who are now becoming familiar with the bot know that they don’t need to put a
+0.01to sell at MP+0.01 they can simply type0.01. So a way to keep that functionality but allow for non-relative prices would be to see if the users price modifier is within ~20% of the market price. Examples below help convey this concept.MP of Q3 Power: 0.246, Current Behaviour:
Selling above MP is an unlikely edge case however this can certainly be an improvement for people setting non-relative prices below MP
Logic table