Merchant Warning

    • Merchant Warning

      Sorry if this is already posted, I didn't find it. It needs checking.

      OGame Redesign: Merchant Warning
      • Info : Shows a warning if you're about to waste 3.500 DM for a Merchant
      • Author : Vess
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      • Download : userscripts.org/scripts/show/83847
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        [spoiler=Description]
        - In the redesign of OGame the user interface for trading with the Merchant is horribly designed - perhaps intentionally so. There are no less than five different places, the accidental clicking of any of which causes a new Merchant to be called - which costs you 3.500 units Dark Matter (a paid resource). Many of these places are where the user can easily click, thinking that s/he is going to use an already called Merchant to exchange some resource. (The actual use of the Merchant is free; it's calling him that costs DM.) Although they are texts in the game on the Merchant page which, if carefully read, make it clear that the player is going to spend 3.500 DM by clicking there, these texts are easily overlooked.

        HHG has written a couple of scripts, which warn the player that s/he is about to spend 3.500 DM by calling a new Merchant. Unfortunately, these scripts have two problems. First of all, they are language-dependent (the first displays its prompt in English and the second - in Chinese). Second, they do not cover all the places from which a new Merchant can be invoked (they miss 2 of the 5 such places). Therefore, I have decided to write and release this script.
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