Originally Posted by
Thrandir
Of course, but it should be just an estimation. Wouldn't it be enough to get average price You should be looking for? It's not perfect for sure, but in my opinion- accurate enough.
Oh, You are wrong! It wouldn't kill items in any way. Market has one major con- it takes time to sell items there. That is why prices are higher at market. Fast toricredits = items, higher price = market. Market is basically fast buy while items are fast sell. And also trends often change, so it wouldn't really let anyone predict how high item will be tomorrow/ 2 months later. Market constantly changes, predicting its flow is impossible. Some items may go high for short time, some go high once and for long period (vide: platinum force at constant 30k price at market till march -> since then: stable 38k+ price). But such an graph would let people know "hey, if You are not in hurry- wait. This item used to be way lower this week, maybe it will fall again?".
If talking about "threads staying unviewed"- come on, most of people buying items are marketers who constantly check prices at market and items section. They do those predictions anyway, even without graphs. I don't think it would affect items section hard, but it could let many newcomers sell their items for proper price (as marketer couldn't simply tell them- trust me, this item was lower so please sell it for lower price).
Getting average prices in this case is absolutely inaccurate as those are 2+ years. Analyzing that long period of time- especially considering stock price fixes which happened- makes no sense in my opinion. It would be misleading, as people would think "my god this item is 2k under average right now, I will buy it from market and make profit!" while for last 2-3 months price was constantly under average.
However data You mentioned would be extremely useful if used properly (shorter periods of time, taking into accounts only "regular" prices- without weird "2k for platinum force / 100k for orc force" ones, talking into account only under-stock prices if talking about items which are in stock etc). Most of those things can be done using ToriShop API from Fish by the way (however, it is impossible to gather data about buying with it, which is crucial).
I think it would be cool to give people the full range so there is still some form of the users deciding on what they will sell and buy for. Average price is irrelevant. Yes, the users still get the same amount of deciding but it's just the same as looking at the average price on the market currently and selling your item for much lower than that.
I just checked the past few months as you suggested in order to be more accurate and the average looks just about the same. As a matter of fact, the probable high amount and probable low amount are about the same too. though the numbers are simple closer to the mean. Even from 2 years ago the data is still accurate, I could try it with an item that has vastly changed in price from a long time ago. Or better yet, only use data from the start of all the torishop prices and market prices being changed.