AuctionMaster is a compact auction house tool for being able to sell items like the wind, scanning auctions for item statistics, searching for wanted items in the auction house, looking for good opportunities among the current auctions and displaying the statistics gathered so far in the tooltip of any item.
AuctionMaster was formerly named Vendor, which seemed to be a missleading name for the purpose of the addon.
Why another auction addon?
There are already well known and established auction tools available. But I wasn't very comfortable with them. I wanted to have a tool which is very compact, which doesn't overstrain me in the tooltip with too much information. On the other side it should be ease in use and totally driven by gui elements.
And last but not least I just had fun to learn many new things while programming it.
Compatibility with other auction addons
AuctionMaster adds a new tab to the auction window. It does that as compatible as possible. This way some other addons, which also add new tabs to the auction window won't get disturbed. But there is no gurantee, that all other auction addons, modifying the auction frame, will be compatible with AuctionMaster. It depends on how cautious the addon author was.
Features
AuctionMaster comes in a single directory, without any other dependencies. The needed Ace2 libraries are already contained in the AuctionMaster installation directory.
The following sections will explain some of the main features of AuctionMaster.
Using the UI
All UI elements of AuctionMaster do have a tooltip description. If you still have a question, just look again in this text or write a comment in the forum.
After installing AuctionMaster you will see a button named AuctionMaster in the top right corner of the auction house window. There you will find shortcuts for beeing able to configure AuctionMaster, scan for all current auctions and create a snipe for the currently selected item.
All three aspects will be explained in detail in the next sections.
Scanning auctions
AuctionMaster is able to scan all current auctions by pressing the Scan button. This may be done in the AuctionMaster popup menu or by using the portrait icon of the auction house. Afterwards a progress dialog will appear, which informs about the progress of the scan. There is a fast and a normal scan mode. Both may be configured differently. By default the fast scan mode only asks to buy for sniped items.
The scan may be triggered with the command from the AuctionMaster menu or with a click on the portrait icon of the AuctionHouse. With a right click on the portrait icon you can choose the scan mode to be started.
If AuctionMaster encounters a previously sniped item or an auction with promising prices, it will ask you to bid for it or even buy it immediately. The limits for the latter feature may be configured. They shouldn't be set to low, otherwise the dialog will ask you too oftenly.
The search for promising items will get better after some scans over a few days. Otherwise some odd prices may influence the statistics too much.
AuctionMaster will maintain statistics of the scanned auctions. The prices are corrected by a standard deviation method. This may be configured in the statistic section of the configuration.
Sniping items
By pressing the Snipe button you may set a snipe for the currently selected item. A dialog will appear, which will ask you for the maximal bid and buyout price you are up to pay, if it will be encountered during an auction house scan. In this case a dialog will appear, where you can press a bid or buyout button to actually bid/buy the desired item.
The snipes will be valid for each character. You may set the snipe with your main and buy the item with your auction house twink.
Selling items
AuctionMaster will add a fourth tab to the auction house for efficiently selling your items. The left section of the window is used to describe the sale. The right section will display all current auctions of the same type.
By pressing the Refresh button, you may search for more current auctions of the same type. If the last scan is too old,
AuctionMaster will automatically scan again - only for the selected item. This time may be configured (like many other things).
You have to drag the item to be sold in the image in the upper left corner. Alternatively you may just shift left click the item to be sold in your inventory. AuctionMaster will automatically select the last prices, you have used the last time for this item.
Beside that you are able to select the duration, the prices for bid and buyout, the stack size and the number of stacks. You don't have to prepare the stacks by yourself. AuctionMaster will do it for you. Just select the desired stack size and you're done.
With Price calculation you can select the following price modes:
- Fixed price
- Just selects the bid and buyout prices you have used the last time.
- Current price
- Selects the average prices of the current auctions for the selected item. This may be influenced by a configurable percent amount. Will be modified by the configurable percentage value.
- Undercut
- Selects the lowest prices of the current auctions for the selected item. This may be influenced by a configurable percent amount. Will be modified by the configurable percentage value.
- Lower market threshold
- Sets the buyout price to the first auction above the configured lower market threshold (defaults to 30% of the market price). The min bid price is set to exactly the lower market threshold. Will be modified by the configurable percentage value.
- Selling price
- Selects the selling price of the given item. Will be modified by the configurable percentage value.
- Market price
- Selects the average bid and buyout prices calculated for the last scans. Will be modified by the configurable percentage value.
AuctionMaster will gather statistics for the scanned auction items. It will calculate the median for the prices found. The tooltip of any item will display the overall statistics for the bid and buyout prices and the same for the last scan. Additionally the sell price at the vendor will be displayed.
For stacked items there will be displayed two prices. The first is for single items and the second (in parens) is for the price of the complete stack.
The averages for the current server and faction will be displayed.
Configuration
Many things of the features described above are configurable. Just press the Configuration button and have a look at it. All configuration options are described by a tooltip. You have to point at it for a few seconds, then it will appear.
There are too many options to describe them here in detail. Hopefully they are self-explaining.
Author
AuctionMaster was written by Udorn, a dusky shadow priest, always looking for some opposing souls to be consumed.
Acknowledgements
A big thanks goes to the users of the AuctionMaster forum at Curse, for their support and many good suggestions.
And some special thanks for translations and bug reporting goes to
- GloomySunday@CWDG (Simplified Chinese)
- Juha@CWDG (Traditional Chinese)
- StingerSoft (Russian)
- Cremor (Bug reporting)
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
