I'm just going to make this short and sweet, I'm sure everyone like suggestions like that! Can we please get a Buy All button when purchasing items from a user shop. I love to buy items really cheap and save them for the recycle beast, etc.

This would definitely not my my easier but I'm sure the life of those who do the same thing easier as well. :3

Are you suggesting a button for buying a full stack of items, or are you suggesting a button to buy all the items in the user shop?

Yes, a button to buy a full stack of items from the main shop search page, which ideally would have an pop up saying do you really want to buy XXX of XXX

While I personally support this (anything to make buying easier) it has been turned down many times.

Sometimes I camp the Recycle Beast at midnight and try to buy up items for him before they inflate. The cheap items are usually gone pretty quickly, but I can usually snag a few to turn in. If a Buy-All were implemented, then I don't think I would ever be able to snag any items, because chances are the first user to see them will just buy the whole stack. Either that, or I'd get them before every other user on the website, which isn't fair either. It is really tedious to buy things one-by-one but at least this way everyone has a chance and it's not just one person buying up the entire stack whenever there is something cheap. So I feel like the way it is now is the most fair for everyone even if it's not as convenient.

Do you know the reasoning behind it, because I spent over an hour buying around 1,000 cheap items, which no one was really burning to buy. xD.

If its because of the recycle beast, maybe possibly whenever his items appear in as requested items, user shop maybe it can be disabled automatically so that everyone has a chance

Ah, I see! Figured I'd double-check because my first impression was a button to buy out the entire shop. x)

Mmm... I'm torn on this because I can see this causing issues when things like the token shop, crystal shop, or even new holiday items are released. I'm not fully against it, though. We do need ways to rebalance sP from the megarich to other accounts, and it would make hoarding and selling event currencies a very viable option for making sP. Buying Humming Power Crystals one by one is a pain.

On the other hand, you can bet that currencies would probably go up in price while items from currency shops would likely go down. If it can somehow be throttled (buy a stack once every X hours maybe?) to prevent mass-buying of currencies whenever something old gets dropped, it might work. Otherwise, it's going to be a first-come-first-serve scenario, and that doesn't really help anyone except the fastest users, like said.

a combination of fairness, as Bug mentions above, server strain, inventory and QS limitations.

I agree, if this does ever get implemented Staff could disable certain key items from being able to be bought instantly. Like for example, let's use the recently revamped morty card.

Example Keith's planning on changing the Morty Card so he, disabled that from being bought instantly and then news posts get implemented. Etc with otehr items Like Tokens, Esterh Coins etc

Oh I'm sure that could be done, but that also leaves room for error. Staff are human too, and I'd like for them to have a little less stuff to micromanage. ;)

Also there are currently no shop limits wrt duplicate items. As an example run a shop search on "vesnali coin" - imagine hitting this hypothetical "buy all" button. On the very first entry, you would end up with 14,474 items in your inventory. Now this is a currency, so you could just slip it right into your currency vault, but imagine its "slots sporks" instead - you'd have to QS 58 times to put it all away. Or if you don't have a GA, 145 times!

Not going to disagree with you there, everyone is prone to mistake and I was simply just given examples to show how if something like this is ever to be implemented that it can be done so for fairness of everyone.

I use to be an admin @ another site so trust me I know the issues with dealing with less stuff is a blessing xD

Oh No XD I'm suggesting that each item has a buy all option with each item For example, one shop has 1 Slots Spork and another has 200 Slot Sporks, I meant that the page would have Buy All Buttons next to each item, like how the page is currently set up

No, I get that - currently Slots sporks aren't a good example of the problem, though I've seen much bigger stacks of those. The Vesnali Coin, is - one of top three users has 14474 coins in their shop. Another person has 21,878, someone else over 7000.

I see that, what I mentioned to Frost is staff could potentially disable the feature for certain items.

Like this, lets say Keith wants to make a new gentech combination and let suppose that one of the required items is currently going for 500sp and theres over 30,000 of said item in usershops currently. I've worked as an admin at a petsite, and I don't think their database was the greatest but it allow options to toggle different settings etc. I'm sure by far Subeta's database is probably far superior

Amber could possibly, toggle the setting in a database which bars that item from being bough en masse, and this would prevent one user who figured out the combination from buying 90% of the items in a short period of time.

Which Staff, could do this with Event Currencies, etc items they know and can predict ahead of time will be hot desirable items in the future,

Sure you can do that for special items (and be superhuman and NEVER ever forget). But how do you prevent inventory flooding of huge stacks of non-special non-currency items when there are no limits to how much a person can stack a single item in their shop?

It really isn't that simple. There are a bunch of things to consider and ways in which it could go horribly wrong. And sure there are work arounds to many (all?) of the possible problems - but another issue is not even being able to imagine all the possible consequences.

Yes that is true and I'm simply suggesting ideas on how it can be implemented. Like the saying go Rome wasn't built in a day and most features take time and planning.

Now you could have gave constructive feed back instead of lambasting every post

Hey Novae, I do like your idea but buy all seems way to overpowering, maybe Buy XXX instead of every item

Hey Novae, I do like your idea maybe this suggestion could be implemented in the future as a gold account feature for beta-testing, but then again buy all seems overpowered so possibly and only buying a certain amount from one shop at a time (If theres one there none visible option but if theres over XXX to XXX Visable option).

Etc, a suggestion board shouldn't be a board where you find the negative in every aspect of someones post and don't provide any type of feedback that could possibly make it work. While yes I will admit not every idea is golden but I don't think this suggestion is by far a bad one at all.

Can this be moved to Brainstorming please, I think it would be best suited there

I just realized that when I opened the sub-forums, thanks though for the heads up xD

Lypsyl's entitled to say whatever she wants even if it displeases you. You are not privileged just because you made or support a Suggestion.

No Support. The economy will not bear it.

Furthermore, there's good reason that currency arbitration is made difficult and that there are so many currencies. This Suggestion would obviate that whole thing.

There is no difference between items and currency items really. Subeta runs like a giant stock market where the value of any particular virtual item is entirely arbitrary and can be made into anything if you are willing to work at it. But, buying-all is not work.

This suggestion is proposed to be a way to enable poorer players, but it is the exact opposite. I'm sitting on fuckton of sP and could, if i wanted to, use this proposed feature to totally arb the entire site like a vicious hedge-fund manager because unlike in RL the entire market is visible or nearly so.

A Response is one thing you're right about that, but when every post is a lambaste and not provided one shred on feedback on how to improve the idea is another! Is it wrong asking for feedback?

Thats the idea of this forum, or so I thought.

Now I agree some users can take advantage of this, but there is not one thing preventing you from doing this now? If you really wanted to buy hundred of thousands of those floating luminarie fairies. I don't see why you couldn't do this now, lets say or max price is 1k per fairy and theres a tons under that. Go guy buy them I'm simply making a suggestion to make that easier for you and anyone else who wants to do so as well.

I'm sorry if that came off as rude the other post. I'm simply looking for feedback on how to improve on the idea, if you do have idea. Please feel free to share :)