Ok, who forgot to index the database? Simple searches are timing out on all shards. Just tried three shards for a single word and all timed out.
Looks like someone needs to update statistics on the DBMS or something. ASAP.
Does anyone care? Honestly. A simple search on Great Lakes for 'Horned Runic' barely comes back after 2 minutes. Barbed Runic times out.
Seriously. Index the database already. Do you need help? This is like data management 101.
Game seems more unstable all around for the last month or so. Get lots of connection lost messages at some point during most play sessions, and vendor search works some days and not others. Did not mind so much when the game crashed every once in a while but now it appears to be a nightly event.
I have given up on Vendor Search...it's totally useless. I type in ONE word and I get *It took too long blah blah please refine your search...How do you refine ONE WORD???
Please for the love of everything UO......Please please PLEASE figure out what the problem is and fix it. It would be an AMAZING asset if it worked properly.
VS has been wonky the last few days on Pac
Okay refine EASTER.....anything to do with Easter is all I wanted...price starting at 2 Mil...yes I love deco lol. I tried EASTER EGG and got the same message...I tried EASTER GOOSE...same message....or try DETECT ALACRITY...DETECT TRANSCEND.....DISPICABLE QUIVER.... I can't get much more precise...no matter what I type, what hour of the day I try....I either time out...and when I log back in later it pops up the *Please wait for your search to complete*.....seriously...
easter not EASTER should work and search high to low and leave default prices in.
Try alacr detect or trans detect. For scrolls do scroll detect and you will get all 3 if they are there, PS/Alac/Trans.
It took a while on Atlantic, but it gave me results for easter. Most things are 100k + Theres some easter basket grass for 45k.
Geese and Dragon Eggs are 200k.
I want some more of the little chocolate Bunnies, those are cool to place around your house.
When vendor search was working it works.
Why don't you go to Atlantic and show it working instead.
I've been having this issue as well. I decided to test out different locations to try a vendor search and came up with mixed results. I tried on two different servers to make sure it wasn't just my server and had similar results. The places it eventually worked was very spotty. Those were at banks and Inns. It never worked inside my house. The only place it worked every time was when I was standing inside the EM hall on Sonoma. Still haven't tried that on Atlantic.
I don't think anyone is saying that VS works flawlessly or really ever has (I've always had intermittent issues regardless of shard). The point I was trying to make is that even when VS is acting up, I've found that using those check boxes to find an item (when possible) returns a result most of the time. You don't always need to use them but when VS is timing out this is what I've done to actually get results.
Looks like they got the stats updated - the search is working better now. Returns in a reasonable amount. If this is the issue when setup a script to run every day to update the indexing statistics daily.
If you need DBA help let me know. Its been awhile but not that long since I used to consult DBA's.....
And Again Vendor Search is timing out. Might help if the data base was indexed.
Vendor search basically hasn't worked correctly since the new patch. Time outs. Not returning full results. Timing out... then the search popping up 10 minutes later out of the blue.
It began happening as soon as I patched up. So that seems to have been the catalyst.
"Even i can't get it to work on Atlantic at the moment"
Not every day, all day. I have found I get better results early morning or late evenings when not a lot of people are on. Say I search for Melissa's Cloak....I type in Melissa's Cloak, check the box for *Cloak* put a minimum return bid of 1 Mil gold and hit search.
On the weekends during the day, it will time out 90% of the time with the *You're search took too long...*
In the morning it will return results fairly quickly.
Really needs to be improved. Works fine one day and not at all the next. Last couple of months game seems to be really struggling. Lost connection messages becoming a routine part of game play now. At least for me.
with the current population in the game so many lags at em event, vendor search not working 80% of the time and many others issue...they are working on attacking more people to the game with the new legacy...can the server really have more peoples?
Honestly Broadsword should just contract this job out, they've shown they can't make this system function.
As with each new server publish, vendor search will go through maintenance once publish 112 goes WW. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
maybe they should remove acces to vendor search to ej accounts.....the goal is to make them sub i guess.....beleive it or not some use auto search bots...
“They already restricted EJ to 1 search every minute, plus no named item searches”
I was up last night until midnight PST on Arriang and Oceania and VS was supper fast on both shards. I do a LOT of searches when I send out my shard hoppers looking for good to take home.
If you refine your search it helps a lot. During busy times it tends to be slow or not work at all. Especially on Atlantic because people are always adding/buying off vendors.
I find that if you are looking for an item, it's best to add a minimum cost so it doesn't have to search through everything that's 100g etc. Say I want to price a rare colored plant. I know those are at LEAST a million gold...so if I want one of those peculiar snowfluff trees....Input Peculiar Snowfluff Min Price 1,000,000 and I get results fairly quickly as it's not having to search through lower priced items.
Splintering Blade Min. Price 500,000
Just an example of what makes VS work most of the time for me even on Atlantic.
“Perhaps they should put a message when it fails to tell the user to refine their search…:p “
I liked the old days when you could just click exclude from Fel and set the results high to low.
You could see every item on any shard within seconds. Except the ones in fel.
Some nights it’s up some nights it’s down just like about everything else in this game. Read reviews of UO from years and years ago, even before vendor search, and see exactly the same problems mentioned that people still complain about today. It’s an old game, just accept that it has a lot of quirks that will always be there. I use vendor search a lot and like a lot of other things in the game it frustrates me when they don’t work but I still enjoy playing the game.
They did try to fix it with a new version of vendor search a few years ago. I thought overall it worked better than the current version although the print was so small it was hard to read. But, after a trail period they went back to the old, now current, version of vendor search.
Note. I try it several times a night during a play session usually it’s up at least a little while at some point during the night.
A few things are certain Atlantic should have it's own database
Items labeled display only should never be scanned
Imagine if we can search and buy via a shopping card in a web browser from any shard and get the items shipped to our home shard… wow…
“It’s a lose lose situation for them if they improve the response time of the search. Because all this would mean is that people input more searches and place even greater demand on the service.
Probably best to just leave it as is”
They have tried to fix VS many times recently. This last publish was supposed to do something with the data base.
But one problem is when someone says VS is not working. Some poster will try it at 2 AM for an item that only needs 1 click menu and they will post that VS is fine.
So who are the Devs going to believe? An angry person that disparages the devs or the calm person that says VS is working.
If you look thru this thread, I stopped posting because a couple of posters kept saying it is working every time I said it was not.
It works often if you can use the clickys but when you need to use words it times out when things are busy. There are no clickys for deco items. If you check all the boxes you get only armor and jewelry.
Vendor search got crowded when Commission vendors came out. It just keeps getting more crowded with items because players can put more items on vendors now.
It's funny to see the same posters blame EJ for every problem in UO. Funny to pretend there is an army of EJ accounts on LS doing endless searches as part of this fantasy.
Kind of funny that the same people defend EJ Accounts when a vast majority is used to cheat with and I am so glad that some people think they know how everything works. Wait I thought LS didn't have a problem.
EJ accounts can’t use keyword search if I remember correctly.
All personal attacks aside the reasons VS is broken should be irrelevant based on the number of posts the developers should be able to see it's a issue the players want fixed and prioritize it accordingly...
Block EJ Accounts from using VS. I doubt that there is an EJ Account that isn't owned by a paying Account.
from what I understand, people have been trying to get on the website all day.
You can get on the forums, if you have a direct link to it.
but everything else is down.
makes me wonder if maybe they are updating the info for Spring Fever
(which was mentioned in Februarys newsletter):
March - Spring Fever - they sure are cute but watch out for the bite!
I have learnt that avoiding words that may be common to many other things helps. Eg. today I was searching for a "strange tissue paradox" I searched for "strange tissue" got the red message from hell. Then I wrote the whole thing: "strange tissue paradox"... got the red message of timeout.
Finally I thought that "strange" appears on way many items, so I searched for simply "tissue paradox" and voila, the results appeared. (also it was during a non peak hour.. I haven't found a way to beat high traffic times.. then it'll be red message to no end.
Searching by using the built in filters only is the ideal way. But that is not always possible, they need to add a few skills to the skills list (spellweaving, for example) If they would add that and possibly the levels that Power and other scrolls come in, it would work great. it's when you add any word to the "item Name" search criteria that it gets Laggy and times out.
We need not display only..
I'll be honest, I've seen people complain in Gen Chat about VS not working but VS was not an issue for me this weekend at all (on ATL). I was able to return results using just the toggle boxes but also search with just words (I used things like "veteran rewards"). My searches were all in the afternoon or evening as well so it's not like they were at 5am.
The results from searching for vet rewards did take a minute or so to return but I literally went through 6-10 searches (hitting the search higher prices items toggle) successfully without it timing out.
Wife: The car is broken
Husband: What is wrong with it dear
Wife: It doesn't work
Husband (slaps his head): Yes dear
Sorry to all the females out there with a brain.
"I'll PM him, see if i can see what's wrong"
"perhaps you'd like to share with someone else what exactly you're searching for, and what filters you've added"
Sometimes it works great sometimes using yoshi's suggestions works great sometimes it doesn't work at all ....it's the inconsistency it's the lack of acknowledgement that there might be a problem this approach seems to be the same with all bugs leading to frustration...
He does not want to save the shot as a file. He wants to copy then paste it here.
You have save the picture on your device and upload it to your post. Using the icon above on the right.
You can not paste a picture on this forum engine.
Nice I'll try that on next picture. I thought I had to choose a file or have an image from a file.