A Transaction Memory Check Box and Log

[Jon Allen]

Right now when you buy/sell stuff, there is no mechanism in-game that keeps track of what you bought/sold and at what price and quantity.

 

I'd really like to see the developers of this fine game look for a way to incorporate that into the game.

 

The basic idea I'm having, is that when you buy/sell anything, the game presents an option or check box labeled something like "Memory", "Log Transaction" or so on.

 

If you check that box or say yes to that option, the purchase/selling is noted in a journal or Log (call it what you will, if you can think of a better term), a tab that you can access from the game's main menu. It records when the transaction occurred, which port, what item, at what price and what quantity.

 

This can be useful in at least two different ways that I can think of:

 

1. Traders can keep track of what they bought/sold items for, and compare prices they are staring at in their current port to past prices at the same or a different port

 

2. Crafters can use it to create a log of all the purchases (by checking the option with every purchase associated with their current project), so they can accurately add up all the prices and find out how much it cost them to build that ship.

 

Right now doing this requires scraps of paper, spreadsheets and so on. Adding a tool like this, even a very basic one, would really add to the level of gameplay enjoyment on the trading and crafting side of things.

 

Having a check box option would allow the player to decide what gets recorded and what doesn't. But if its easier to implement, I think it would also be acceptable if there were a log generated that simply recorded every transaction and filed it away like your real life bank statements. It could even be very crude. But that data is worth something to us players.

 

If someone else has presented this idea before, great. In that case just consider this another vote in favor of.

[Austone]

This is already done. If you look at the top of the chat box, there are several tabs. One of them is a history of transactions that happened during the current session and log of money and exp gained through battles. I would however like to see this stretch across multiple sessions.