Marketplace Buy Page Features

• filters
• by resources offered (including and/or excluding)
• by resources searched (including and/or excluding)
• by ratio (4 predefined filters: loss, even, even/profit, profit)
• by custom ratio (bigger or equal than)
• by action (acceptable offers only)
• by alliance(s)
• including and/or excluding
• multiple alliances
• partial and/or full match (partial is great for alliance families)
• permanent filters per user/server
• no more pressing next page and setting the filters all over again!!
• side effect: leave market, go to any market (same account), filter is still there
• selected filters easily seen (different cell background color)
• offers table
• new column: "Alliance" - mouseover on player name is too slow
• new column: "Ratio"
• easier to decide on several offers shown
• next/previous page links not just bellow the "Accept Offer" link
• easy script configurable good/normal/bad ratios coloring. Configure:
• enabled/disabled
• good/normal/bad ratios
• good/normal/bad ratio colors
• easy script configurable good/normal/bad ratios colors
• enhanced column: "Duration"
• Title mouseover: "min <-> max" durations of that page (useful when all offers were filtered)
• Cell mouseover: show Round Trip Time (RTT - time your merchants will take to go and return)
• Color coding:
• Teuton (lowest RTT) - green
• Roman (medium RTT) - yellow
• Gauls (highest RTT) - red
• Round Trip Time - cyan
• easy script configurable enable/disable tribe coloring
• replace "Accept Offer" text by the Ok button (smaller = saves on double line offers)
• shortcut key "space" - goes to the next page (no need to look for the "»" link)
• no translations needed - all words retrieved from game
• auto next page - if no offers on page (all filtered out) automatically goes to the next page
• Plus filters
  • mix QP Market filters with Plus filters
  • selected Plus filters easily seen (different cell background color)

Instruction details

• General
• press a filter to select it
• select multiple filters at will
• clean the filters by pressing the red cross on the right
• RoundTripTime
• mouseOver the duration cell - a blue background time will appear
• until the script learns your tribe the time shown will be: ??:??:??
• visit the Send Troops Page so that the script knows your tribe
• this time tells you when will your merchants return from this trade
• textboxes
• the "Ok" on any of the textboxes is simply removing focus from it
• (eg.: on the ratio write "1.5" and then press anywhere else in the page)
• alliance filters
• case sensitive
• for multiple alliance just separate them by ";"
• for partial match check the checkbox to the left of the textbox
• partial match checkbox should be set before the alliance(s) - otherwise refresh
• if you already had an alliance set and want to change it - might need refresh
• known bug: searching for empty/space alliance
• shortcut key "space"
• pressing the "space" key almost anywhere will go to the next page
• on last page returns to previous page
• disabled when focus is on alliance textboxes (they can have spaces in their names)
• auto next page (ANP)
• triggered only on new offers page
• "reset" does not reset this back to 9 - I think it's more user friendly this way
• will only go to the next page the amount of configured times
• configurable in the first textbox of action row of the filter table
• enabled text box - configures how many ANP can be done
• disabled textbox - shows how many ANP can still be done before stopping
• configurable ratio coloring
• this is configurable inside the script right at the start of the script
• default is turned off: it is a bit confusing to have duration + ratio coloring turned on
• configurable alliance column
• this is configurable inside the script right at the start of the script
• default is turned on: shows the column
• even without showing the column, the alliance filters can be used
• translations
• before you retrieve the words in your language you will see the english defaults
• visit the following pages to retrieve your language words:
• "Alliance" - retrieved from any player profile page
• "Accept Offer" - retrieved from any acceptable offer at the market itself

To Do

• Possible future features
• add number of merchants needed for offer (? if unknown)
• improve behavior (eg.: pressing a 2nd time would de-select filter)
• Features to be added
• --- Currently none ---
• Requests
• --- Currently none ---
• Known bugs
• --- Currently none ---

History

• 2.3.0 - 08-04-05
  • added: Alliance column configurable in script (hide)
  • improved: is page Market functions is more restrictive
• 2.2.0 - 08-01-14
  • added: Plus filters shown as selected by background color
• Previous history inside the script only

Generic script goals

• simplify some tasks - repetitive tasks; too-many-steps tasks; ...
• no support for other browsers - using of firefox GM_set/GM_get to save permanent info
• no need for language translations - simple new icons OR words/icons from travian
• low priority on Plus support - Plus users already have benefits over others
• ultra low priority on country specific HTML support - some travian servers have changed HTML in the game