Erinn Exchange!

• Cookiebunny wrote on 2014-06-30 22:13
  I apologize for being rude. Please disregard any discrepancies this thread has caused.
  
  Erinn Exchange
  
  Alright, so some of you may know about this wonderful person named Maldaris who has been working on making a market site for Mabinogi, similar to Maplestory's Basil Market.
  
  Currently, it doesn't look like much from the first glance, but he's already gotten a lot of coding done on the server-side these past two weeks. When it's all done, it'll be totally awesome.
  
  I just want to inform you all that once Erinn Exchange is fully functional, it deserves the attention.
  
  Have a good day.
• Kouki wrote on 2014-06-30 22:51
  Interesting. :o This could be really handy if it becomes widely used, then we won't have to shell out for housing, which is good for poorer players. Also means it'd be easier to find affordable stuff that is rarely in housing.
• Cookiebunny wrote on 2014-06-30 23:06

  Quote from Fran;1229196:

  Interesting. :o This could be really handy if it becomes widely used, then we won't have to shell out for housing, which is good for poorer players. Also means it'd be easier to find affordable stuff that is rarely in housing.

  
  
  Exactly. ^^ It's a lot easier to check a website than it is to check in-game for these kind of things.
  There's a lot of potential, and that potential's currently being carried out. It'd mean a lot to Maldaris if Erinn Exchange becomes a thing.
• Justici wrote on 2014-06-30 23:18
  Great concept. I'm actually friends with the creator of MabiMart and even though both sites share a lot of similar ideas, I think it was just coincidental. The creator of MabiMart made the website as a summer project and is simply for fun and convenience for other players. She did not know that another trading website was being developed alongside her own until now. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I do not believe any real plagiarism is evident here. Thanks for sharing this though.
• Tyskiyomy wrote on 2014-06-30 23:19
  So is it like/is it going to be like a online player shops/market?
  You know a faster marketplace than the forum?
• Kouki wrote on 2014-06-30 23:41

  Quote from Tyskiyomy;1229205:

  So is it like/is it going to be like a online player shops/market?
  You know a faster marketplace than the forum?

  
  
  From what it looks like, it might be. I can't seem to get the listing part to work, so I guess it's still being worked on.
  I'm thinking it'd be like housing boards where people can search stuff, except no housing fee. Wonder how they'll list dyes/dyed clothing, though.
• Tyskiyomy wrote on 2014-06-30 23:55

  Quote from Fran;1229208:

  From what it looks like, it might be. I can't seem to get the listing part to work, so I guess it's still being worked on.
  I'm thinking it'd be like housing boards where people can search stuff, except no housing fee. Wonder how they'll list dyes/dyed clothing, though.

  
  
  I was moreso thinking around the lines of it showing what people are selling and then giving you their names to be able to get contact them then. AKA offline party ads c;
• Nihl wrote on 2014-06-30 23:55
  Hi, I've been working on MabiMart.
  
  Calling my site a plagiarism without any sort of reason? What the hell. This has been a fun personal project of mine for the past few weeks. It was really cool building a site from scratch, (have never done something like this before) and honestly I really liked it. I designed the pages on my own, and honestly our sites look nothing alike, aside from the fact that they both are auction sites for Mabinogi Items.
  
  Another auction site? Awesome! Calling my hard work plagiarism? Not cool. I spent a lot of time into designing and building my site from scratch, so please back off.
• ironwoman wrote on 2014-07-01 00:06
  What the fuck is going on?
  
  From what I can see, this Erinn Exchange is not functional. From what I can see MabiMart is more functional than this Erinn Exchange.
  
  I honestly see no similar design between the pages design wise, maybe the concept is the same, because well, it can't be different.
  Like the creator of the MabiMart page said, calling it a plagiarism is rude. To me, this Erinn Exchange advertisement just seems to be more of a personal bias. There doesn't need to be tention between these auction sites, so do whatever the hell you want. But don't call out on the sites for no legitimate reason.
• ironwoman wrote on 2014-07-01 00:06
  What the fuck is going on?
  
  From what I can see, this Erinn Exchange is not functional. From what I can see MabiMart is more functional than this Erinn Exchange.
  
  I honestly see no similar design between the pages design wise, maybe the concept is the same, because well, it can't be different.
  Like the creator of the MabiMart page said, calling it a plagiarism is rude. To me, this Erinn Exchange advertisement just seems to be more of a personal bias. There doesn't need to be tention between these auction sites, so do whatever the hell you want. But don't call out on the sites for no legitimate reason.
• Maldaris wrote on 2014-07-01 01:14
  Ugh. Okay so take two of this post.
  
  
  Hi everyone. I'm Maldaris, the Developer for Erinn Exchange.
  
  Nihl and I have been talking for the past half hour or so and we've talked things out. Here's the synopsis.
  
  Nihl and I have come up with the idea for a Mabinogi Auction site (a la BasilMarket) INDEPENDENTLY.
  Up until about five or so hours ago, Nihl wasnt aware that EE existed, let alone I was developing a similar site.
  I heard about MabiMart the night before, but decided to wait to contact him.
  No plagiarism has occurred, and everything is fine.
  The timing on all this sucks.
  
  I'd like to give a brief rundown of what Erinn Exchange is, and what inspired it.
  
  I'm a veteran programmer of about three years worth of work in designing and building server software, including APIs like what powers Erinn Exchange. That said, this is my first foray into jQuery and the real work of designing the front-end of the site. I also come from EVE Online. If anyone's at all familiar with what EVE is, you know the intensity in which the economy runs. When I played this there were tons of resources for price checking and listing sales outside of the game. Using these, you'd be able to get the maximum amount for your money, whether it be buying or selling.
  
  Mabinogi has none of this. It's scattered across an innumerable amount of forums and isn't easily searchable. Prices are largely done by word of mouth, and there's no real way to look at where the price has been the past few days.
  
  Erinn Exchange is designed to remedy this. It's going to (and in some cases, already does) contain:
  

  
  
  • Auction Listing with full featured Searching by Tags/Attributes/Colors
    
  • Price Checking that factors in unique stats, reforges, dyes, and enchants
    
  • An "ebay" like system for rating and recommending sellers.
    

  
  
  So far I'm about 20% of the way done with the code what I'd like to get out of the site. I've been working on this since about mid-May. This whole showing to the public was completely unintended. I originally publicly hosted the site for /vg/ users about a week ago, to assist me in debugging and get feedback on how the site operates/looks/feels.
  
  I understand there's probably some 4chan related stigma around this site. I'm not really sure how to approach this. All I can say is that they gave me the impetus to stay up till 3 AM some mornings finishing features for them to test. They've given me advice even if it's harsh. And they've been supportive, especially when this fiasco broke out. I wouldn't replace these guys for the world.
  
  Thanks for reading this if you've gotten this far. If you have any questions that I didn't answer here, contact me at maldaris[at]erinnexchange[dot]com
  (The last time I tried to post this, it yelled at me about links)
• Nihl wrote on 2014-07-01 03:00
  Hi everyone, it's me Nihl again,
  
  Out of coincidence, a friend of mine happened to be friends with Maldaris, so through her we both talked it out. It's like Maldaris said, we were both developing our sites independently without really knowing about each others project (until now I guess). From what I understand the original poster was just trying to help a friend out and spread the word, but didn't get the whole picture yet, so no ill will towards any one.
  
  What a rollercoaster of a day! Anyways, I wish the EE team the best of luck with their site :), as long as we finally have a functioning Mabinogi Auction site I'll be really happy :D
• Aubog007 wrote on 2014-07-01 03:08
  Honestly, if they revamped housing to support higher purchases and have people and possibly bots monitor everything in housing like they do for maplestory (maple.fm (look it up as an example, better sorting and better item descriptions)).
  
  I'd prefer that over anything.