I am working on revamping the tables to make them more interactive and fun.

As it currently stands it is practical, but a bit dull. So I'm fixing that:





I've removed non-essential columns.

• Item name was redundant, it's what you searched for!
• I feel the overall price is not needed, I'm afraid you may have to do simple maths on price (each) * quantity. If anyone thinks it is needed, please give me feedback!
• Each column has a unique image!

Icons / Columns
Shop

• Image chosen randomly.

Seller

• Yes, that's you. Yes, that's your Minecraft head!
• Could be shown in the 'additional info' modal, but I think it looks pretty cool right there.

Quantity

• Quantity between 1 and 15: One box
• Quantity between 16 and 31: More boxes
• Quantity between 32 and 63: Even more boxes
• Quantity 64+: Overflowing cart

Price

• One coin - good job! Your stuff is cheap. (80% or less of average price)
• Two coins - fair! (80% to 110% of average price)
• Pile of coins - oof! (110% or more of average price)

These calculations may change. I'm still feeling it out.

Info

• Clicking this will bring up a 'profile' of the item/shop, displaying all of the above information as well as the coordinates, total buy price, item name, etc.
• (Still working on this, I will show a demo once it's done)

Drawbacks

• No more pagination on tables.
• No more sortable columns.

Hopefully the dynamic icons make up for these drawbacks by making it visually easier to find what you're looking for.

Feedback
I'm always searching for feedback! My goal is to make the website practical and providing a good user experience. The server runs on it's economy, and I really want this to be a centerpiece to it!

I think these changes will add some life to the application!

If you have suggestions, please do post them! If there's anything you think could make this better I'm always glad to hear it.

This is still in development, so now is the best time to make suggestions!

Implementing that, in a way, by the dynamic coin images. I think 99% of people wouldn't use/care for the actual numbers. Icons are more fun!

I am listening! It was your suggestion that inspired me to rework the table. So thanks :)
I can add multiple select as a toggle-able option, sort them exactly how you said, and add a 'item' column which shows the item name and it's icon. This will take some time and work, but it will be pretty cool.

I'm going to go with Videowiz92 suggestion above :)

 

Unfortunately since this runs independently of the server I have not found a way to achieve this.
e.g, there is no way to read contents of a locked chest on the client-side.

I'm thinking about on 'additional info' a way to report a shop for being out of stock.
I could then remove the shop if the majority of their items are out of stock.

 

Great idea! I'll add this.

 

Additional Info model:

 

It seems only a very small percentage of players actually use the mod. This solution would work, but the effort may not be worth it because I imagine the players who do use the mod would only account for ~5% of items purchased, meaning only ~5% of out of stock items would be detected.

It's a lot of effort for what would likely be a very small subset of out of stock items being detected.
If a significant amount of people used the mod I would definitely do this, but I just don't see the potential as the majority of people do not.

It's a great solution, but due to the lack of users who have the mod installed I do not think it would make any noticable difference.

The most practical solution would be to make this a server-side plugin.. which would enable real-time updates without the need to update shops or having a mod in the first place. Perhaps that can be a thing in the (quite distant) future.

 

Done.

 

Read post above yours :p