Guild store search function

Altheina · April 2014

Just want to rant a bit regarding guild store search function, imho it's too confusing...
First, I think it would be better to add 'search by name' function as of right the available search gives too broad a result. It is a nightmare especially when there are tons of items available in guild store.

Secondly, finished products like armors/weapons/food/potions shouldn't appear under 'Materials' and specific 'rarity' search.

Just to act as reference, I really like Rift's auction house system as it's not only robust and detailed, it gives players the ability to just drag the items they wanna search into the auction house for it to automatically pinpoint the said items. So for example, if you want to search A armor for price, just drag it into the auction house and you will see all the A armors listed by other players with price.

I certainly hope ZOS take a look and tweak it to be much more robust than its current state.

What you guys thought on this?

DoZakar · April 2014

I agree. I love everything about the game but man that AH system is a total pain. I'm not against guild stores because having smaller markets is interesting, but the lack of search by name function... Seriously. It's a maze to navigate, and it really isn't fun to do, specially when you really are searching for something in particular.

hilelorangutan · April 2014

I agree, the only thing I would add to this is that you may want to look into a UI to help you with buy/sell mode in general, I've already seen a few that can make things much simpler, and I'm sure they will only get better with time.

Altheina · April 2014

hilelorangutan wrote: »

I agree, the only thing I would add to this is that you may want to look into a UI to help you with buy/sell mode in general, I've already seen a few that can make things much simpler, and I'm sure they will only get better with time.

I did some thought about how did TESO leave behind so many fantastic features that are already out there in other mmos and for some reason not implemented here and yes I think they might do it deliberately so that players with creative minds would make it as add ons!

PS: Hope I am right lol

Malkavianqueen · April 2014

Agree with all your points! I pretty much left similar feedback after using the guild store for a while. It's a real pain to use right now.

holmes.lab16_ESO · April 2014

Yea definitely needs more options to sort by, plus being able to search for something as well. Very annoying as it is.

Jake71887 · April 2014

Trying to find materials is the worst, especially when you're in a large trading guild. .. Search dozens of pages of not only crafting mats, but whatever the hell the search decided to include with it, just to find one specific thing. -_-

rioxme · April 2014

STRONGLY FAVOR.
Now, I don't want to use Guild Store if possible. Very very hard to use.

Xaxxus · April 2014

honestly, the guild stores are HORRIBLE in this game.

Another function they should have is universal guild store search. So say I am a member of 5 guilds, if I try to search something, it shows the results for all of my guilds, rather than have to search each guild individually.

Gillysan · April 2014

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info312-GuildStoreSearchExtended.html

Mie87 · April 2014

I hope they will add a search function very soon,
if there is one thing I dislike very much is its absence at this point.

Altheina · April 2014

Gillysan wrote: »

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info312-GuildStoreSearchExtended.html

I did use this add on but it doesn't really help in finding items that I want like if I want to search for specific set items can't seem to find it even if I input specific keywords. In addition to that, the add on removes the in game search function and replaces it with the 'Retrieve' function that does slower search, especially if I am doing search 'All'.

As I mentioned in my post above, one thing I like about Rift search system is that not only the keyword is more extensive and precise, you can also find item that you want to find and compare prices by just dragging the said item and drop it into the search function and it will return the list of exact items.

Also forgot to mention another neat feature Rift has is the ability to remember prices of items you have sold before making selling items so much easier and convenient.

zaria · April 2014

One thing I hate is how the sell display is not tabbed at all, weapon armor potions is just piled around

Altheina · April 2014

zaria wrote: »

One thing I hate is how the sell display is not tabbed at all, weapon armor potions is just piled around

Yeah and the funny thing is that selling to npc merchants has items sorted out by catagories but not in guild store sell...

Wissper · May 2014

And now that they've limited the searches to one every 3-5 seconds, even the addons that help correct this problem are useless. It takes me about 5 minutes to propagate a list of what's in my guild stores so that I can search from them by name now. USELESS! I mean come on.. this is basic stuff that every auction system should have!

Sparkleav · May 2014

This is one thing that's been bugging me for a while. I couldn't believe there was no search function for the guild store. Trying to find particular materials for crafting is often a nightmare with unlimited junk filling the pages. At least you can select it's quality but this still isn't good enough. Please add a search function to guild stores ZOS or at least add more options so we can narrow down our search, last thing I want to do is spend 20 minutes scrolling through pages of worms to find one stack of rawhide.

SimplyKupo · May 2014

Wissper wrote: »

And now that they've limited the searches to one every 3-5 seconds, even the addons that help correct this problem are useless. It takes me about 5 minutes to propagate a list of what's in my guild stores so that I can search from them by name now. USELESS! I mean come on.. this is basic stuff that every auction system should have!

That was seriously one of the most infuriating changes I have ever witnessed in an MMO. Whose genius idea was that?! The lack of search options were bad enough... but to make it WORSE? I can't even... I just don't have words.

Has there been any official word on changes yet? I do have the addon that searches but it is still slow as all hell and FAR from ideal.

Chalybos · May 2014

The inability to search in the guild stores other than the drop-down options makes it more of a pain than it's worth to use, sadly.

kelly.medleyb14_ESO · June 2014

Months later still bugged. The guild bank as well,perpetually "Retrieving Items" or "Waiting on Previous Request"... cmon Max you can't make a simple guild bank and store function properly and yet you release the game as a finished product?