New player in the field.

[Pheal]

Hi I'm Phil a network engineer and programmer, I don't know much about economics but I find them very interesting. I intend to develop tools around the D3 Market to make things easier for everyone.

I am currently working on an web/irc bot that can register WTB/WTS/WTT and PC commands and fetch info about items prices and selling prices.

What I have working so far is the registration for these commands and I am looking for suggestion to have the data inputed in the bot easily (like prices).

It would need some kind of validation and be checked by anybody.

There used to be a system that worked (in an old web browser game called Utopia) where you would get account credits for inputting valid data in the system and these credits could then be used to request things from the bot.

I need a system where people can fetch data from the bot and input new data. The bot would be community managed somehow and prices would be deemed as accepted when a certain threshold is reached.

Anyways the bot is custom made by me so the possibilities are endless as long as I get the ideas and a good system in place.

If you want to help me with this just drop me your ideas in PM or reply to this thread. I will try to turn the ideas into realities .

PS: My english isn't perfect.

[Concupisco Quaestus]

Hello and welcome,

Are you thinking something along the lines of a bot with a "Dungeon Kill Point" style system where you spend points you earn through participating? It sounds interesting... Oh and your English looks good enough to me.

[Pheal]

Hello and welcome,

Are you thinking something along the lines of a bot with a "Dungeon Kill Point" style system where you spend points you earn through participating? It sounds interesting... Oh and your English looks good enough to me.

Yes there would be a system like that in place to help with abuse fake reports.

Things I have planned so far:

-ORC Validation to harvest data from user submitted screenshots (didn't find a better way to validate since its user submitted and could be faked).
-GUI client that only takes screens of your client to not interfere with the D3 client and break the EULA/TOS, no hooks, no loaders, no macros or anything illegal.
-User validated files (you get a screen, validate it and get credits if a certain threshold is met user wise since ocr can fail sometimes). <-can be evaluated from a confidence score with ocr.

More ideas welcome .

[Azzure]

Due to how the randomness and affix system of items, this will be very challenging. Nearly every item is unique, and has varying stats.

For commodities, currency rates etc it will be easier, as those items are static. Though I don't know if the bot will be as helpful as a website that contains and stores historical prices, graphs etc.

Sounds interesting though.