I can imagine the variables the trade match script is running to accomplish it's goal. I think it wouldn't be too difficult to modify it a little to return results in the Haves without having anything in the Wants and visa versa.

I could probally handle it and Im sure I could name at least two others that could take a peek and swap and few if else statements around and pass an extra variable to make it show either/or instead of just blanking out when one variable passes null.

If anythign it could help out the collectors and more casual players looking to find those odd and ends as well as those people that have say 3 or 4 specific wants and then say "I'll look at your list".

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But you want the trade matcher to find have/wants without their being a match (because many people do not list every crap rare they have/want).

wouldnt it be an easier solution to just put those cards on youre have list though?

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Originally posted by ronandaggy:
wouldnt it be an easier solution to just put those cards on youre have list though?

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No... some people have such incredibly huge collections, that that's not easy at all.

I really like this suggestion, and I really don't think it'd be hard to implement. Good idea.

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Originally posted by eclinchy:
No... some people have such incredibly huge collections, that that's not easy at all.

I really like this suggestion, and I really don't think it'd be hard to implement. Good idea.

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neither would be re-writing an entire system. though ill be honest, i dont know too much about this stuff, but if a guy like nderdog with a list his size can do it, im sure others can.
Im not against the suggestion. id use it aswell, im just trying to save boltbait some work.

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Say you have code that looks like...

if (WH > 0) and (HW > 0)
addToTradeMatchesList;

Change the "and" to an "or" and you're done. Now obviously I don't know anything about how they program the trade matcher (i.e. what language, how they structure it, etc), but I'm guessing it's a fairly simple change like that.

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What this means in layman's terms is that yes it can easily be switched to work for one-sided results, but it's also going to take significantly more time for the job to run, more processing power to handle the result set and more space to store said matches.

I won't pretend to know the numbers on all of this and if it makes the changes prohibitive due to available resources.

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nderdog I kinda forgot what you did for a living. I think between BoltBait, nderdog, evilempire22 and myself, this would be hard at all to impliment.

I work all day in an ASP world and can chew up PHP fairly handedly. Looking through cold fusion is a little eh but none the less. I can chew up code pretty well.

nderdog, Yeah it would probally make it a little more server intensive which im not intrested in doing but shouldnt be much as the script, from what I see, retunrs like you said but it still searches both sides. So it actually processes both lists and the added power would be from actually listing the cards as opposed to saying "sorry no matches found".

One way to try this, if Lesherac was up for it, would be to run it for a week and see if he notices any kind of spike with this feature enabled. If so the process could be reworked to use javascript to display the results thus relying on the users rescources rather than the servers. it would a little more intensive code wise making it work but the whole button could be wrapped up n a noscript tag maing it available in its presnt form to those with javascript turned off but available in the new form to those with it enabled.

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Originally posted by harbingerofthevoid:
well looks like there might be a little hope for this.

nderdog I kinda forgot what you did for a living. I think between BoltBait, nderdog, evilempire22 and myself, this would be hard at all to impliment.

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