Related Games: Warframe
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Feature Description:
Update the PendingTrades (inventory.PendingTrades
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Impact for my app: mid/high.
By updating PendingTrades during the trade process, as items are added, the app would be able to calculate average prices for each item against other APIs. This would allow a live display of potential profits that could be made from the traded items. It could also prevent players from making bad trades due to a lesser understanding of the market. -
What is your current pain point?
My PendingTrades data is currently holding a trade that was made a long time a go. While investigating this, I made serveral test trades that are not showing up. This appears to be a bug.Although updating PendingTrades after a trade would still be useful. I feel that it would be much more valuable to update during the trade. Without this functionality, it would not be possible to add live trade data and we would need to resort to showing the trade summary after a successful trade. (By which time it would be too late to cancel the trade deal)
Here is a mockup app that could be achievable with the PendingTrades game event being updated during a trade.
In this example, item prices are calculated from the online Warframe market api. The user can then tell if they are making a good/bad trade.