Subeta news: Quartermasters buying high rarity items

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In the latest news and announcements on Subeta, the Quartermasters is now buying high rarity items!

While you've all been doing millions (billions? trillions?) of quests over the years, the quest givers have had trouble sourcing the rarer items on Subeta. No longer. They've brought in a crew of Quartermasters to find and supply those items... from your shops.

All day long, the quartermasters work their way through the user shops and buy rarity 90-99 items, paying your asking price up to a cap for each rarity. A ton of these sit unsold, mostly because they have no use beyond being rare, and now they have a buyer. A few rules keep it from being farmed; the Quartermasters page has the caps and how it works. The buyers have a set amount of sP they can spend per day, so it's not a promise that your items will get bought.

Note: This is one of my first real attempts, in more than 20 years, at putting a floor under the price of anything on Subeta. It's an experiment, and I'll be tuning it as I watch how it goes.


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In related Subeta news, the Treasure Chest feature has received some improvements:

The big news: Every pet has two chests now! They share the slots the pet already has, so buying slots is still how you get more room. You can name each one, and you pick which chest shows up on the pet's profile.

And the other updates:

• 🧭 Every pet has a treasure page showing all of its chests at once. A pet's profile still shows just one chest. You'll find the link on the pet's profile (the "treasure chest" header turns into a link - I tried not to add any new UI!) whenever there's more to see than the profile is showing.
• 🔒 Each chest is set to one of three things: on the pet's profile, on the treasure page only, or private so nobody but you can see it. Put the collection you want to show off on the treasure page and keep the profile as tidy as you like.
• ❌ Inside a chest, check off as many items as you want and then remove them or send them to the other chest in one go. Select all and Select none sit next to the count.
• 🔀 Shuffle randomizes the order of whichever chest you're looking at for fun.
• 🐛 Removing an item used to have a couple second cache before actually going away. No more!
• 🤌 Dragging got rebuilt from scratch. The old code was written before browsers had a single way to handle a mouse, a finger, and any other kind of input (like tablet pens).
• ⌨️ There's a full keyboard path either way. Tab to an item, press Enter to pick it up, move it with the arrow keys, press Enter to set it down. A screen reader reads out where the item landed each time, with a real attempt to fix the accessibility issues on this page.
• 🔢 The editor and the pet profile have disagreed about item order for years. Items added straight from your inventory never got a position, which is about a third of everything sitting in a treasure chest, and the two pages were breaking that tie in opposite directions. I went with the profile's order, since that's the one other people see, so profiles look exactly like they did yesterday. The editor is the side that moved. If you open a chest you never arranged by hand, the items may not be where you remember them. Anything you did arrange is still where you put it.
• 🐛 Reordering a chest with more than 400 items in it used to throw away the arrangement of everything outside the block you were dragging in, so the chests that were hardest to organize were also the ones most likely to lose your work. And Mass Add has a search box, so you can type part of an item's name instead of scrolling your inventory hunting for it.
• 🤏 The item grid also sizes itself to your screen now, so the width setting came out.

Reminder: You get to your pets treasure chest from the pets page in the drop down for each pet.

If you've got feedback or thoughts or suggestions or wishes for the treasure chests let me know.