Suggestion talk:20100814 'Search X Times' Dropdown Box

The zerging thing's pretty irellevant, because there isn't a trade system in UD.--User:Yonnua Koponen/signature2 21:31, 14 August 2010 (BST)

Stocking a jillion needles at once one the revive mule alt. 21:36, 14 August 2010 (BST)

would still take so many IP hits and would just be the same clicking the button so many times. --

 

 

 

 

02:00, 15 August 2010 (BST)

Search down to my last AP, URL hack a 50AP search, go drinking for two days? 02:08, 15 August 2010 (BST)

What is your obsession with URL hacking? You're basing all these hypothetical problems on the assumption you'll be able to get searches for free? You think Kevan is that stupid? --

 

 

 

 

02:29, 15 August 2010 (BST)

Even if, getting searches in advance wouldn't be a big deal anyway. All but the flak jack need to be used actively and require APs to do so. -- Spiderzed▋ 02:33, 15 August 2010 (BST)

In short, probably. In long, it's been the case with other actions in the past, which were only rectified with hindsight. It's just one of those things, like groove theory, or the Borehamwood AP thing, or cade bots (also bots are easier with this suggestion btw), that is probably going to be overlooked until it goes wrong, and the people exploiting it when it does aren't exactly going to be the fun ones. Also, edit conflict with Spiderzed: there's a large bonus in being able to consistently find large amounts of items with minimal effort from someone running multiple accounts. Even if done manually, without a bot, you're basically letting a zerg player take 2% of the time they'd normally take to stock any and all of their accounts up, potentially freeing them to create more. 02:37, 15 August 2010 (BST)

That same speech about conveniencing zergs could apply to a number of updates, like the syringe boost, the cade blocking, ruin decay, but when something adds convenience to 98% of the population in the same way it does the 2% that zerg, then perhaps it should be overlooked in that regard. Otherwise nothing would ever change in UD. --

 

 

 

 

03:16, 15 August 2010 (BST)

Obviously the case could be made that anything that benefits any player also benefits zergs, but something that significantly lessens their only real impediment (time) is going to disproportionately affect them. 03:20, 15 August 2010 (BST)