I've just been doing multiple searches in the trade office, and realised that this job would be made easier with a couple of shortcuts.
For example, I want to check prices of 'Hardwood Planks', so I type 'Hardw' into the search, which shows all trades involving Hardwood Planks and Hardwood Logs. If I only want to see Hardwood Planks, then I can type 'Hardwood P' into the search box.
It would be easier, however, if certain shortcuts, used regularly by all players, were recognised by the search system, for example, I type 'HWP', and would see all Hardwood Planks. Maybe the search could pre-check what you type and convert it, so you type HWP, and the search box auto-changes it to 'Hardwood Planks' before searching...?
Suggested 'shortcuts' (case insensitive)Of course, this does have the possibility of confusing newbies, so maybe a tickbox next to the search box to enable/disable the feature.
- PW or PWL - Pinewood (Logs)
- HW or HWL - Hardwood (Logs)
- EW or EWL - Exotic Wood (Logs)
- PWP - Pinewood Planks
- HWP - Hardwood Planks
- EWP - Exotic Wood Planks
- GC - Gold Coins
- SS - Steel Swords
- IS - Iron Swords
- BS - Bronze Swords
- IotP - Island of the Pirates
- SftR - Stealing from the Rich
- DP - Dark Priests
- BK - Black Knights
- DB - Dark Brotherhood
- VtV - Victor the Vicious
For example, with it turned on, searching for 'is' might just show Iron Swords, when the user was looking for 'Island of the Pirates', or items being sold be the player 'isaplayer'.