It would be very helpful to be able to tell what time a group of goods were sent to the market.

"En Route Since 6:49: 518,827 Jets on sale for $129 each"
"En Route for 1.2 Hours: 518,827 Jets on sale for $129 each"

suggested before but still not bad idea.

Why? Of what benefit would that info be?

If you don't want to write down when you sent everything to market, and you're wondering how long your goods have been en route.

I understand that, what I don't get is what is the benefit of knowing that? You cannot get it to get on the market any faster than it will regardless.

Say you need the money to play your turns, or to buy some oil for an attack. You might want to know about how long you can peace out before you should come back to check on your country.

even if you knew what time you sent them there is still a couple hour range of when they will actually hit the market.

Exactly, there's a 2 hour range for them to hit the market and even then you don't know if they will sell the second they hit the market. An argument might be that there is an SO to buy yours at the price you set, that SO might be for 1 unit. So, this makes absolutely ZERO sense to me. I see no value in it. Unless there's something I'm missing.

Maybe you want to know how far into the range you are. So you know maximum 30 more minutes or whatever. Or so you know you're getting unlucky!

I don't know, it's probably not that useful, but it'd probably be easy to add.

Not worth the effort to code it IMO.

It's actually exceedingly easy to code, considering the Express market already tells you what time the goods will return to you.

having the time your goods return to you is more beneficial than having the time you sent your good to the market.

Yeah that would be ok. It's not hard to track yourself, but I'm all for being lazy.

Also with the recall option it is less important if u have 3 turns to burn and you need your stuff right away.

I constantly wish I could tell when I sent it. Sure, it's a two hour window when they could hit but if I send it to market and forget what time it was, having the game show it to me would prevent me from having to guess where the two hour window is. If I'm running a commie and selling twice per day, I will usually try and logon about 6 hours after I sent my stuff, because then I can at least look at the market price and see if my stuff will be likely to sell within the next hour or two. I don't spend my time indoors, so if I forget what time I sent my goods it's kind of a pain in the ass if I login early and there still en route. That's at least 30 min of my time wasted.

Considering it's a value that's most likely already stored, I can't imagine it'd take much just to display it. Not a game changer, but definitely worth the effort to code it IMO.

The game shows you the time since your last log in. So what if you log in 'early' and your goods have hit the market, what next?

Not worth the effort to code regardless of how exceedingly easy it is to code.

Not bad of an idea.. I like that...

I think this is useful for stocks.

Could be useful to someone trying to figure out how well the luck bonus works based on how early their goods arrive on the market. There are not many things to screw up other than documenting the time the goods were sent and the time they arrived.

If what I was told is correct, someone who invests heavily into the luck bonus should often see their goods arrive earlier in that 2 hour window rather than later.

it would be helpful to know how long the goods have been on the market.

On market for 6 hours: 518,827 Jets on sale for $129 each
On market for 28 hours: 400,827 Jets on sale for $185 each
On market for 71 hours: 100,000,001 Bushels on sale for $800 each

This has been coded already, it's just part of a server switch (for express); if this is something most players want we could introduce it to more servers....

maybe i should write a poll manager for things like this...

No no no, no poll manager, until you merge your 480 backdated commits back into live!

=D yes that too ;)

Bump for a timer while waiting for sales to hit the market!

and how long goods will stay on the market for.

and how much of a queue is in front of them at the same price (for farmers, destockers, and food resellers)

well, maybe that's asking for a bit much :P

lol@rockman

yea that's way too much to ask and so would be knowing countries which stuffs those are.