Help: Trade - Misc screen
General help is found at the help screen available while browsing the other tabs at the "Trade" tab.
The "price to item name" mapping is a special treat for the advanced Trader.
The table expands itself each new price/name pair added to it.
- Add a new price by clicking the bottommost empty cell in the Digits column, then fill the empty cell with some fancy item name.
- Edit a price or item name by selecting its cell, erase the content and fill in the new value.
- Delete a price/name pair by selecting the line and press Delete at the keyboard or choose Delete at the Edit menu.
The table auto-saves when you switch character and when the application exits, or use Save (Ctrl-S) at the File menu.
Only "blank" item names presented at any one of the tabs at the Trade tab are affected. For any blank name an attempt is done to look up a mapped name and present it in blue color if there is a mapping.
The logic will look at the three (3) rightmost digits of the price and tries to find an item name mapped for that price. Thence, "23" is really read as "023" and does not equal "123". Furthermore, a price of "1234" also equals "9234" as they both have three equal trailing digits, namely "234".
Shared mapping: Most users probably prefer just one mapping for all Traders they have in SWG. Deselecting this option gives you the choice to have individual mappings for each one, or for some Traders. This option is per character, so you may want to have only one or a few Traders using individual mappings while others share a global mapping. Note that when you select to have a "Shared mapping" from having used individual mappings, these individual mappings are preserved by adding them to the global mapping.
Tip: Start out with creating the shared mappings, but only them. Switch between Traders to verify it is shared between them. Now deselect the option "Shared mapping" for the Traders you want, add the special price/item-name pairs for them, and finally Save.
Map always: An option to always map existing price/names, even when the item has a name. This is for example useful while selling items such as "An incubated egg" which is a name the master cannot set but wants to know which of several eggs that was sold, or any other item with equal names but different stats. This option is global for all Traders, either on or off.
Background: Many players prefer items for furnishing being named blank not to clutter their home with a lot of text. To fulfill their needs you name the items with a couple of blank spaces. This is no problem as long as you only do this for special orders, right?
Some Traders have made it their business niche to provide blank named items. Then how to know from the auction mails what is sold and what not? The mails do not read the item names, but clever players price their items in a way that they know what item was sold. They have maintained a piece of paper with prices mapped to item names and done the work manually. This special feature saves them that hassle.