Bukkit

(below pasted from forums.bukkit.org request)

@Acrobot are you accepting feature requests here or do you prefer dev.bukkit tickets?

Although I prefer a physical shop to a virtual shop (thus using this plugin vs. many of the virtual ones out there), I'd love for there to be a way to allow to remotely check stock. For example:

/market find wool
Jibjab has 82 wool for sale
BubBob has 42 wool for sale

Maybe it could (at the admins discretion) optionally show the loc's of the shops or perhaps use the region name if in a WG region (so it could read "Jibjab has 82 wool for sale in market1").

The biggest problem I have in a large world is players keeping shops stocked up and having confidence to make the "journey" to the market (which I've made easier, but I don't allow instant tp's to anywhere). It would be nice to be able to remotely check inventory before making the journey.

While I'm at it, if you added this feature, checking the stock of your own shops probably wouldn't be that much of a stretch functionality-wise, so something like:

/market checkstock
Your wool shop is out of stock!
Your iron shop has 32 iron left.
Your gold shop is out of stock!

If you'd prefer me to open a dev.bukkit ticket, let me know. If you think you'll never implement this feature, that's a fair answer too.   Thanks.

To further expand this idea, add a webui with all the shops listed with owners and what they are selling, prices etc, perhaps integrate locations with towny/wg/factions as noted. This would kind of give players an idea of if they should make the journey to sell or not, connects everyone.

This would be epic, especially with a web interface :)

A web interface with a summary of locations and stocks of each store would be cool, but it would be stellar if we could get at least the in-game commands as outlined here.

As Andune stated, we have the same problem. I like our players to have their own stores, but since we don't allow tp, and some players aren't very good at restocking, it would be nice to have a command players could use to retrieve a list of shops with the item in stock and the location they have to travel to (the world too, if multiworld, part of the loc?)