It was about 3pm on Sat 10th Oct when another crazy idea struck me. I was waiting for the Northern line tube on my way back home from Hampstead. I’ve been playing the World of Warcraft Forever beta lately, and that morning I’d been trying out addons like Forever Ledger and their auction house scanning technology to see if i could make some gold– the new crafting recipes are sooo juicy, but with very expensive mats. I’ll skip the tech for now, but lets say I realised a new way to crawl the auction house for market data.

So when I got home I got GPT 6 Astra to make it for me. It took it like i dunno half an hour? And it worked maybe first time?

Whatever might have occurred during those hours, i know what happened next because there is data in my database.I turned my AH sampler online at about 5pm on the 10th. I had about 5 gold in my bag. At the time of writing 11:30pm on the 12th I have 1) bought myself the mats for Shadow Leggings plus the Spinning Wheel, costing 15.0 gold 2) bought myself the mats for Enchant: Revelation on my staff costing 11.5 gold, and 3) I hold a current total worth of 50 gold, so thats 76.5 gold total made from my original 5 gold in like, a couple of days of experiments that were suggested by the addon. Small beginnings.

I’ve probably way overbuilt on features–i hit the limit on my weekly GPT tokens in the first day of the week, ooops. The addon itself does a lot, it’s basically a market intelligence platform inside WoW. I’d love for you to try it, and I want to try sharing data between users at some point (watch this space) – that would enable the market histories to be very well sampled and very powerful for a traditional machine learning approach to forecast the auction house markets. We would also get data on more items!

I have it set up so that it reads your professions, all the recipes you know, all the inputs and outputs of those recipes, and samples the markets of those items. You get data on items for which you can potentially make profit. I’m not gonna lie, disenchanting has been absolutely huge for my aforementioned profits over the last couple of days. But this addon helped me find those routes: which is the optimal green item(s) to disenchant on the AH right now. Buy loads, DE, profit, repeat. Tailoring supplied secondary profits, especially from making Woolen Reagant Bags at like 2g a piece. I want to know how other professions do. I guess I could try it out on my lowbie mage with lowbie alch…. but i want You to try it :)

Really, it’s just getting started. I’m not sure how much time I will have for this going forwards, but i kinda hope i get to at least spend some time with github bug reports :P.

above is some of the data i've collected so far. with multiple users this dataset is going to be extremely powerful (btw i have worked professionally as a data scientist on machine learning problems, so i kinda know how to build tech that can maybe profit us) p.p.s. what is this gonna do to the forever economy if it catches on??) p.p.p.s. i originally had codex write this site too, but my brother told me that sucked. that was good advice. maybe i'll do more than one post here!