Profits calculator?

[Nazo]

My ls used to have a pretty cool tool on our site, where we'd keep it up-to-date with as possible with AH / vendor prices for our server and so on and it would spit out items we could buy and sell at a profit. Quite Handy. Sadly the site admin and developer both quit FFXI and one day it all disappeared off the internet.

I've had the source code and data for a while and have been toying with the idea of recreating it and expanding it to include synths / farming and other goodness. So you could ask it how much a recipe would cost you and how much you could make / lose on it, or the most profitable synths / farmed items for your level etc.

Then I thought, if I've thought of it, someone's bound to have gotten there before me and there's no point making something that already exists. So, does anyone know of something similar out there already? I've seen plenty of sites that have recipes, and some that have vendor information, and some that have what mob drops what, but I've yet to find one that combines all this information together.

[Ryddr]

Re: Profits calculator?

Somepage has information on mob drops and recicpes neatly linked together, but I'm not sure they have any vendor information whatsoever....so 2 out of 3?

[Taskmage]

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Somepage has good vendor information too. They've got most prices listed for non-guild type vendors.

I've thought about doing something like this for myself with just an excel spreadsheet of my profit synths and fields for the prices of the ingredients and the selling price of the final product to calculate my profit, but the math is already simple enough to do in my head, and prices fluctuate so much it wouldn't be much use as a reference either.

[Balfree]

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http://www.ffrecipe.com/search.php

type your search, lets say you wanted a to check on animal glue

type animal glue on the search box, press enter

you get to:

http://www.ffrecipe.com/search.php?t...tg%5B%5D=NR&c=

you can see theres 2 recipes for this item, click the name of the item of the recipe you want to check on

i clicked the regular synth, the top one

you get directed to http://www.ffrecipe.com/recipeDetails.php?rid=6

lots of info gets tossed into your screen

ker-click on "Calculate Cost", a small link in a blue color, in the middle section of that page, on the right side

you get then directed to more info, http://www.ffrecipe.com/recipeCostings.php?rid=6

type in how much you payed for your materials allways in single unit price (some recipes take 2 or more of the same material), if youre aware of your HQ rate, type it below, press calculation

a crafter's best friend

[neighbortaru]

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and for AH stuff http://www.ffxiah.com/

[Ryddr]

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Wow...amazing

[Taskmage]

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Oh, cool. I didn't know that web AH thing took off.

[Murphie]

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Oh, cool. I didn't know that web AH thing took off.

I'm seeing it posted everywhere lately. So I guess it is.

[neighbortaru]

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it did when cliff (of windower fame) started developing the data collection tool.

OT: this is certainly interesting if accurate

[Omniblast]

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FfxiAH.com : Too bad it hasn't been collecting lately, seems like the data's stopped since the 2nd or the 30th depending on certain items. I guess that tool just collects data depending on whoever visits or views the AH for the item?

Why doesn't SE do something like that? Connect the database and make it browsable via browsers? That would be so extremely smart of SE to do something like that.

Now imagine it further if we could purchase with our characters items from the AH from a web browser by putting in our information for login.

Too dangerous huh?

[Murphie]

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Maybe I should have stayed on Seraph. Everything is cheaper there than on Bahamut.

Oh wells.

edit: Yes, I realize how that works in the big scheme of things, so I'm not really paying any more or less for things than other servers as (generally) the prices are relative. Or something. Please no economics lessons, no matter how well-intentioned.

[neighbortaru]

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it still seems to be collecting data, for example: http://www.ffxiah.com/item.php?id=18...1&sid=31&cid=1

[Feba]

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FFXIAH can't be updated consistantly because it takes 24hrs for the script it uses to fully run through and process everything. On the other hand, Vana'guide devs are supposedly able to connect directly to the server and pull out the entire price history in around 30 minutes.

If you want to help with the AH, i'm sure fleckz would let you help, but eh... It would take a network of mules doing this around the clock, having mules dedicated to a few high traffic items to keep it as up to date as the real deal.

[Mhurron]

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Maybe I should have stayed on Seraph. Everything is cheaper there than on Bahamut.

Ok, given a few things that have been posted here within the past couple weeks, this almost made me spit out my coffee.

Why doesn't SE do something like that? Connect the database and make it browsable via browsers?

Well, each world is supposed to be a separate place where things grow and evolve on their own, including prices. So to suddenly make information about servers that will effect the way people on other servers look at the cost of things would upset the natural evolution of each world.