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@SnowGears Cool! :D Glad you think so. I'm looking forward to that.

I was thinking about a couple ways to make it work, without being too complicated.. I guess it depends on what seems the most user-friendly to understand.

Basically, the 3nd line of the sign, could be something like: "ID of payment item, amount required for purchase". So lets say I'm selling a bunch of Iron Bars for every half-stack of logs they can bring me, the sign would be:

• [Shop]
• 10
• 17, 32

Or maybe use the 4th line for the amount required. Of course in either case, these methods require that they know the Item IDs. heh

Alternatively, and if keeping the sign format the same is necessary, to avoid breaking old shops, you could have the new shop creation method require you to hit it with 2 items. First it would prompt you for the item you want to sell, and then it would prompt you to hit it with the payment item. And then on the sign, the Sale Price (line 3) would just be however many of that item you require for purchase. Although that would require the shop keeper to already have at least one of that item.

Theoretically, but much more involved to code, you could do something like QuickTrade does, with GUI interfaces consisting of a custom inventory window. dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/quicktrade/

This plugin having a barter ability setup is an exciting idea :D, effectively allows it to support jobs/questing style gameplay (Like the missions NPCs give you in MMO games. lol) across a wider range of server setups, even when those servers don't have economy systems/plugins. It's super dynamic too, since players will always have to try and be fair with the way they value items against other items, on their own, if they want people to buy their stuff. lol

BTW, unrelated question, do I need to give players the "shop.destroy" permission so they can destroy only their own shop?

@Plumeex

I just opened a ticket for that: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shops/tickets/26-items-wont-display/

I have a bit of a feature request, if you're open to suggestions..

Instead of having to use a config-defined item for a currency, which is required for every Shop, would it be possible to add the optional feature to disable the currency item, and instead require each shop to specify a direct-trade/barter item?

I don't use any economy/money/jobs plugins on my server, but we'd REALLY like to be able to setup these shops, so that we can just enter the item-ID of the item we'd like to receive as payment, for the items we're selling, on a per-shop basis.

Using a forced currency item is kinda weird, when you don't have any supporting money plugins.. Emeralds are far too rare to use as money with players, and aren't useful for much else, and gold nuggets easy to get, but end up being relatively useless for shop-keepers. It might be more useful in this case, if players could sell items for whatever other items they might have actual need for, like a direct barter-trade. Each player has different needs, and that might make things far more flexible, imho.

I hope that made sense. Either way this is a great plugin. :D Thnx!

@Plumeex

Exact the same thing. The version before 1.4(1.3.5) displays it correctly.

@SnowGears I followed the steps, but nope. Right after I punch the sign, I can see the item on the chest very quickly appear and disappear.

@Bomave Do you experience the same thing?

I used to use ShowCase, and the drops were displayed correctly.

@SnowGears

There's no item displayed on our shops either. It's version 1.4, first installation.

Hi, I just installed the plugin but I think something isn't right.
When I type /shop, I just have "/shop" in the chat, and when I create a shop with a sign, the item isn't displayed on the chest.

No errors in my logs, using v1.4. Thanks! :)

Is it possible when using items as currency to remove the decimal place on the cost so that I can fit more of the currency name on? Is it also possible to support uppercase S in [shop]. It's confusing to a lot of players when it doesn't work because of casing.