Shop refresh when you check them? WTF??? :-(

[Dorok]

Woo shop refresh their content as you check them.

I can't believe it they are an awful crap and I don't think I ever seen as bad and pointless shop in any Diablo like, and for once I saw a very cool item and it vanished under my eye.

What a lame desing, seriously.

[davidb11]

What are you on about? Shops only refresh their stuff when you check on anoher vendor in another town.
That's the only way to refresh the shops at any quick pace.
Sure, they refresh based on time, and something else, but you don't run that timer down inside the shop screen.

I mean, I suppose if you took 10+ minutes staring at it, maybe.

[Dorok]

Not first time I see a refresh, stuff disapear and is shown again, I only didn't noticed before it was a refresh because it's just full of crap.

It's lame do it when you check a shop.

[KekelMyShekel ₪]

I can confirm this, I've had this a couple of times. I'm looking at stuff a vendor has to sell and suddenly all the items are gone and it refreshed with different items.

[davidb11]

That's weird, because it shouldn't happen like that at all.
How long were you in the shop screen?
I'm pretty sure the shops are not supposed to refresh unless you've been away far enough from them for a long enough period of time, or checked on another merchant in another location first.

Really, Trigger? That's so bizarre. Even if it runs on a timer, it shouldn't ever trigger like that.
How long did you spend in the menu?

[Dudejitsu]

Happened to me too a bunch of times. Ranged from a few seconds to a few minutes of screen staring, I think once the timer hits (however long it might be), it just switches no matter what you are doing

[davidb11]

That is so weird. It's never happened to me ever, and the only way I know to even refresh shops is to either find another town and talk to a merchant, and then go back to the other town, or go out of the area and kill things for awhile.

Is it really set on a timer? With no check on where the player is? THat makes no sense to code it like that.

[Dudejitsu]

I really don't know how to explain it, it just happens, hoping they will fix this in a future patch

[davidb11]

Me too. This seems really weird.
I wonder if there's any research on the shops in this game, and how they work?
This is the first time I heard of this issue, and it seems to be one that needs addressing for certain.

I mean, when does the timer start is the first question.

[stylez]

Yeah, it's annoying. The shops refresh at some constant interval, regardless if you have the shop screen open or not. I remember seeing this back in Builds 24 and 25, a bit surprised it hasn't been fixed.

[davidb11]

Weird. First time I ever heard about it was this thread. I wonder what the interval is.

[Skyhaster]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Weird. First time I ever heard about it was this thread. I wonder what the interval is.

afaik its 15 minutes

[davidb11]

Ah. Well, some time I'll keep an eye out for this refreshing.

[Lance Muscles]

I've accidentally sold an item, and had the store refresh before I could buy it back (Instantly realised, can't have been more than 2 seconds). Lost the item. :D

[Shadowreaver]

I've had this happen to me myself a few times not enough to be a problem but can be annoying when you open a merchant up see an item you want them bam it refreshes. It doesn't happen often but it does happen from time to time.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Skyhaster:

Originally posted by davidb11:

Weird. First time I ever heard about it was this thread. I wonder what the interval is.

afaik its 15 minutes

It's not 15mn since shop opened, totally sure of that, the point is I had it few time and didn't bother nor realized the problem, then a day I got a blue item, quite a surprise, I checked it more carefully and the price and then just gave a quick check to some stuff in shop same tab, and the crap refreshed and vanished the blue item.