vendor search on ATL is sooooo Painful!

[Poo]

why is the vendor search on ATL is sooooo Painful!
on any other shard in game, instant results.
ATL, grinds away for 2 minutes and comes back with "your search criteria is too vague'
well its not too vague, it worked on every other shard in the game just fine!

so broke.
so frustrating.

 

[Captn Norrington]

Shhh you'll anger it...then it'll stop working entirely...which it does multiple times per day as it is. As long as we keep sacrificing our sanity and firstborns to it, we shall be blessed with price checks and our merciful vendor search god won't crash the shard to punish us.

 

[Pawain]

I start the search then tab to another toon playing on LS. Tab back in a while and look at the search results. If it needs to increase the price parameter then I repeat. process. Sux.

 

[petemage]

Haha. Stupid amateurs @Kyronix @Bleak.

 

[Nyses]

The inventory of Stuff that the game has to sort through, each time on ATL, is probably as big as all the other shards combined. More crap to sort through = longer.

I've found it helps to check as many boxes (cursed, Promotional token, +15 Discord) as you are able.

 

[Keith of Sonoma]

The inventory of Stuff that the game has to sort through, each time on ATL, is probably as big as all the other shards combined. More crap to sort through = longer.

I've found it helps to check as many boxes (cursed, Promotional token, +15 Discord) as you are able.

I have found just the opposite, the BROADER the search, they more likely to get a response other than "too vague" @Bleak FIX IT! As paying customers, we deserve better than this. You have had plenty of time. It's not like y'all have been busy working on new content!

 

[petemage]

The inventory of Stuff that the game has to sort through, each time on ATL, is probably as big as all the other shards combined. More crap to sort through = longer.

I've found it helps to check as many boxes (cursed, Promotional token, +15 Discord) as you are able.

It's just horrible design on the Dev's end. And they religiuously refuse to fix it. If people complain hard enough @Bleak will eventually throw some smoke and say he will performe some "maintenance" (which will help for about 3 days and keep 5 people subbed for another 3 months).

 

[elster]

Interesting, I wonder what the backing data store is. I hate when people backseat dev, but I mean pretty much any search platform these days leverages sharding. They should be able to horizontally scale to support quick queries on large datasets.

 

[Cyrah]

Ugh this pains me to say. Because I am not a fan of them , used to be, but the spin and rulebreaking went too far for me.

Anyways I use VS on Atl and it for the MOST part it works . I do get the vague sometimes, which I thought (maybe wrong), that it was updating when I got that text. Why? Because in a little while, not so many minutes, it works again with the same search item name in the box.

 

[petemage]

Interesting, I wonder what the backing data store is. I hate when people backseat dev, but I mean pretty much any search platform these days leverages sharding. They should be able to horizontally scale to support quick queries on large datasets.

Word of the street is UO still uses flat files as storage. Bet this whole thing is just collapsing under tons of io load over thousands of small files. But who knows..

 

[BrianFreud]

Word of the street is UO still uses flat files as storage. Bet this whole thing is just collapsing under tons of io load over thousands of small files. But who knows..

Well, it's confirmed that that's how they started, 20+ years ago, but I've not seen anything to say how they're storing it these days.