The Spoopiest Exchange around!
 

Hey everybody! How are those Jack-O'-Loots treating you? Gotten 100 of the same item?

Well! I have a solution for your woes!

Starting today, Trisphee has a new permanent feature, the Item Exchange!

You can visit the Exchange and swap one item for a random new one up to 5 times a day. For the moment, that's mostly limited to Jack-O'-Loot drops, as we assess exactly what all should be provided by the exchange. But this won't be going away at the end of the Halloween event, and you'll be able to gamble away your extra event items for shiny new things, if you so desire.


There's one other useful thing about the exchange you might find useful! You can donate any item in your inventory (except monthlies) to the Exchange, taking it right out of your inventory and clearing up your space. The item will be kept by the exchange, and may eventually be given out to another member in the future!

(That means, if you have unsellable items you don't want anymore, you can just give them directly to the exchange, and POOF! Gone! No mus, no fuss, no StaffMule involved!)

For the moment, the Exchange can be located under the "Games" heading up top, but that may change as we make more updates to the site.

O.O
Interesting...and impressive. I'll look at it :)

Donating a few...

I'm curious about the circulation of donated items.

Is there a way to "go dumpster diving" through people's donated items?
Can we donate super old event items that will never be in circulation again so that lucky newbies can have a chance at them for free?

So curious~~

Yes, all items donated are kept in the Exchange inventory, and those are selected against for the exchange options. At present, you can only exchange Jack-O-Loot items, but after the event, I'm going to open it up to all special items (event, RIG, crane) for exchange. You give one of those ,you get a random other one that's been given to the exchange.

Also, you can exchange commons for other commons (meaning, aurum-purchased items), but I think it's mostly just underpants in that selection right now.

Oh that sounds wonderful!

I literally only have old items, so it would be great to have a chance at the newer event items that I missed.
Thank you so much for the reply and the feature in genera!

Oh deer me. It's part of the fun! Was this worn before...? Did they wash it?

Who could say? Not I, certainly.

It's all the fun of shopping through used clothing with none of the smell! Now to find that denim vest from 1991...

I mean, er, those event items. Yes.

Oh wow what a neat Idea! I really like this and cant wait! Maybe I can finally get a few items I want

I certainly had to give this an official try, and it worked like a dream. :'D

Awesome feature in general :P

I'm very glad everyone likes it. :D

Hopefully everyone will like the next new feature I'm working on, too. We'll find out in a few weeks. :O

Oh dear cheeseballs. What exactly is its sorting order?

For your own inventory? oldest items first. Might be good to flip that around, now that I think about it.

If you know the name of the item, you can type it in the box above, and it'll be singled out lickity-split.

Actually, it is oldest first, but not the oldest you're probably expecting.

Specifically, it's oldest item instance. Which is...likely not the best sorting method, lol. Only real advantage is Jack-O-Loot things will be at the end of the list at the moment.

Ah, you're right. I didn't specify a sort order, so the database was just grabbing it how ever it felt like.

Now it sorts by item id, newest items first.

Gave the thing some time, just my few suggestions for the future full release:

Have the inventory viewer for the feature just be our inventories, allow us to click an unlimited amount of items then click accept to donate all of them for inventory cleaning.
For wonder trade just show a limited version where you just click the item you want to trade and click accept.

So if this feature goes on for a long time, basically the dumpster will be loaded with items because there's virtually no output to it. So will people be able to dump items from it in the future using game coins/tokens? (Are you guys waiting for it to have a beefy amount of items before establishing this system?)

Make sure to keep free items out of the dumpster (pandora items) before release to keep the dumpster from being overfilled with them.

Dump items in the dumpster from banned accounts to help distribute older items that might had been lost for good do to frozen accounts.

A non item/money reward for donating to the dumpster. (Colored Titles, a number depicting how much you donated in your profile. Access to a Good Samaritan subforum.) And if this does happen, add tiers/points for items being donated based on aurum cost and rarity.
So tiers from lowest to highest common items > token shop items > event items > anka egg items > monthlies > special items (Japan items, jackets from God Wars, ect.) > Yearlies.
And offset this by losing points for taking things out of the dumpster. (Can't go below zero to negative points.)

Just some thoughts :P

Haha ya I was like "hey there's stuff all over, there's no oldest XD"

so glad it's fixed <3 ty

Thanks for the feedback. :D


Mass donating would be useful, yes. I may implement that down the line.

The exchange tracks all donations and exchanges, so I know who donated what, when, and what they got in return. This data isn't being used for anything right now, but we certainly can implement rewards for giving items, should we choose in the future (and past donations won't be left high and dry).

Freebie items (pandora whatevers and all those hair types) are actually checked for and outright deleted when donated. You can also try exchanging them and see what it says (it won't eat one of your 5 for the day).


I have considered allowing users a free grab daily, but not for a while, because I don't really want the exchange to be increasing the item pool of the site much, and it would run out pretty quick without a decent reserve.


Your give/take points idea is pretty good. We'll certainly keep it in mind for future improvements to the Exchange!



The current plan for the exchange is that after the Halloween event is done, I will open up the exchange option to all items except freebies and monthlies. The exchange is not entirely random. What you give it determines what it gives back--you give it a common, it gives you a common. Pretty much everything else is free rein, though (and won't give you commons).

It's a gamble! Commons (defined as "item currently for sale in the shops with a price in Aurum") will always exchange for commons, but everything else goes in one big pool.

Thank you for the newest at the top. My inventory gives the system a hard time every time I go to exchange an item. xD

I like the exchange but it sucks that I get the same item back x_x

That's the idea, yes. You won't get a common for a rare, and vice-versa.

Ok, so I exchanged some monthly items, and I got special items back in return. O.o I thought I would be getting monthly item for monthly item. I'm kinda lost here.

No, there's no such limitation.

...Although, I could have sworn I had it disallow you from giving items bought with runes.


Okay. Now that I check the logs, you exchanged event items, not monthlies. That makes more sense. I didn't actually set up the exchange to limit items from Smooch Quest this time. I knew there was something I forgot...

...There aren't actually that many items from that, though. It's easy enough to get them all. :)

So the spoopiest exchange is NOT now the goopiest exchange?

I did exchange the game items, but I also exchanged a couple wysavra which is a monthly item.
It probably didn't go through, but I thought it did.

Goop just gums up the works, you know.