Wares
Written by: Roark Libertas
Date: Thursday, March 24th, 2005
Addressed to: Everyone
The WARES command for shops will stop after it has found around 200
items. This is because shops with thousands of items caused large lag as
it tried to figure out all the groupings and bins for items. Going more
than 200 often times causes a slight but still noticeable lag.
For customers, you can do WARES <blah> to filter your search. For
example, if all you want are weapons then do WARES WEAPON to filter it
just to that. WEARES HERB will get you all the herbs, etc. By searching
for what you want, it will reduce the likelihood of you reaching the 200
item limit.
For shopkeepers, note that as items are purchased, other items that do
not make it to the wares list will start to become added onto the list.
Also note that a grouped item counts as 1. For example, taking 10
colewort and grouping it into "a group of 10 coleworts" will make it
count as just 1 item. So grouping things will get more of your stuff on
the wares list if you have too much inventory.
Penned by my hand on the 22nd of Dioni, in the year 113 CE.