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Over the past several days, I have worked on a upgrade to the galleons system which will make sale completion much easier for shopkeepers and shop assistants, and much less confusing/time consuming for characters buying items.
It's a fairly simple process, really, but I'll spare you the details of it. Just know that I spent plenty of time working on it, and bugging people who genuinely didn't care about helping me fix it and such.
So how does it work?
Simply, when a sale's RP is done, the shop assistant runs an autotool that looks like this:
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That autotool then makes a post that looks like this:
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And that linked image leads you to a page that looks similar to this:
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The page dynamically grabs much of the necessary information for you from the sales topic. You then insert any left out information (price, items, additional information) and submit it.
The page then does three things;
1) Transfer galleons from your account in to the specified shopkeeper's.
2) Sends a personal message to the shopkeeper from your account indicating: [ul][li]That they have been paid (and how much)</LI> [li]What sales thread has been completed<LI>[li]What items you listed as having been bought.[/li][/ul] 3) Sends a ticket (called a 'sales receipt' ) to the administrators indicating what items need to be added to your inventory.
Previously, much of this process was manual and time consuming. Now most of it is automatic and relieves most of a shopkeeper's burden, as well as solving some concerns with our galleon system (like not being sure if they were paid).
Over the next several days, documentation will be updated to reflect this new system.
Questions/comments/concerns? Feel free to post here.
~Nick
Note: Are you a shopkeeper? Do you want to change what the automatic post looks like for your shop (the image used for it)? Feel free to PM me.
It's a fairly simple process, really, but I'll spare you the details of it. Just know that I spent plenty of time working on it, and bugging people who genuinely didn't care about helping me fix it and such.
So how does it work?
Simply, when a sale's RP is done, the shop assistant runs an autotool that looks like this:
Click to see the full sized image
That autotool then makes a post that looks like this:
Click to see the full sized image
And that linked image leads you to a page that looks similar to this:
Click to see the full sized image
The page dynamically grabs much of the necessary information for you from the sales topic. You then insert any left out information (price, items, additional information) and submit it.
The page then does three things;
1) Transfer galleons from your account in to the specified shopkeeper's.
2) Sends a personal message to the shopkeeper from your account indicating: [ul][li]That they have been paid (and how much)</LI> [li]What sales thread has been completed<LI>[li]What items you listed as having been bought.[/li][/ul] 3) Sends a ticket (called a 'sales receipt' ) to the administrators indicating what items need to be added to your inventory.
Previously, much of this process was manual and time consuming. Now most of it is automatic and relieves most of a shopkeeper's burden, as well as solving some concerns with our galleon system (like not being sure if they were paid).
Over the next several days, documentation will be updated to reflect this new system.
Questions/comments/concerns? Feel free to post here.
~Nick
Note: Are you a shopkeeper? Do you want to change what the automatic post looks like for your shop (the image used for it)? Feel free to PM me.
Excellent job.
I kid 
