/brokerprice¶

Script-provided

Registered by brokerprice. Start it with /lua run brokerprice.

Syntax¶

/brokerprice scan
/brokerprice set <platinum>
/brokerprice catalog [minPlat]
/brokerprice tag [minPlat] [bank]

Description¶

Resident broker toolkit. scan searches the market for each of your unlocked consignments and undercuts the lowest competitor; set stamps a flat platinum price onto every unlisted consignment (both need the broker window open). catalog crawls every page of the broker into a local price cache, and tag reports which of your carried items are worth selling against that cache.

Ships armed

COMMIT is a constant at the top of brokerprice.lua, set to true as shipped — there is no in-game toggle. Both scan and set will send real vendor_set_price writes the first time you run them. Edit the script and set COMMIT = false first if you want a dry run (both subcommands still search/log the full plan, they just don't send anything).

Subcommands¶

Subcommand	What
`scan`	Search the broker for each consignment, undercut the lowest competitor's buyer price by `UNDERCUT` (10% as shipped), and reprice. Skips locked items, items already lowest, and items nobody else lists.
`set <platinum>`	Set every unlisted, unlocked consignment to `<platinum>`p flat. Leaves already-listed items untouched.
`catalog [minPlat]`	Crawl every page of the broker and cache the lowest / mean / highest price per item to `brokerprice.catalog.json`. Optional `minPlat` scopes the crawl to items priced at least that many platinum (default: everything). Needs the broker window open.
`tag [minPlat] [bank]`	Read-only report: cross-reference your inventory against the catalog and list items worth at least `minPlat` platinum (default 1p). Does not need the broker open. Scans bags only unless you add `bank`. Writes nothing — use `/autoloot autobroker` to actually tag.

A command is refused with busy -- a job is already running or queued if a scan or set is still in flight; the handler only queues work, the resident loop (its own coroutine, so it can eq2.delay) does the actual searching.

A launch argument still works as a one-shot: /lua run brokerprice set 10000 queues that job immediately after the script starts and stays resident afterward — you don't need to type the /brokerprice command separately.

How scan pricing works¶

For each consignment, scan reads the Buy-tab search results, splits rows into your own listing (matched by seller name) and everyone else's, and targets a price that lands your buyer-facing price UNDERCUT below the lowest competitor's buyer price — converting back through the broker commission (derived live from your own listing when possible, otherwise a 20% fallback), rounded up to the nearest gold. If you're already lowest, or nobody else lists the item, it's skipped. Searches are paced with a cooldown between items to avoid the broker silently returning empty results under rate limiting.

Building a price catalog¶

catalog runs one broad broker search (blank item filter) and walks the whole result set — roughly 8,400 pages for a full economy — aggregating a per-item record keyed by display name:

lo / hi — lowest and highest listed price seen (copper)
avg — mean price. Skewed by outliers (a Krono listed at 76,000,000p wrecks the mean), so price decisions use lo, not avg.
n — number of listings observed; level — item level
cheap — the cheapest few {price, seller} samples
id — reserved 0 placeholder; the broker's search rows don't expose a stable item id yet (a pending RE task will backfill it)

It pages at the broker's native size of 8 — the window's next-page button re-searches at 8 regardless of the PAGESIZE we ask for, so a larger initial page just desyncs the "Page A of B" counter — checkpoints to disk periodically, and posts an ETA to the chat window every ~2.5 minutes. An interrupted crawl leaves a valid partial catalog on disk. Output: brokerprice.catalog.json, next to the script. A full crawl takes ~90 minutes; catalog 1 (only items ≥ 1p) is far smaller if you just want the sellable set.

Checking what's worth selling¶

tag [minPlat] [bank] loads the catalog and your live inventory and prints the carried items whose lowest market price clears minPlat platinum (default 1p), with a match summary (how many matched, how many aren't listed on the broker at all). It scans bags only by default; add bank to include bank items (they appear only when you're at a banker, and /autoloot putbroker moves from bags). This command is read-only — to actually apply Broker tags, use /autoloot autobroker.

Logging¶

Every run appends to brokerprice.log next to the script (in the Lua scripts directory), in addition to printing to the game chat window — useful for reviewing a scan's full plan after the fact.

Examples¶

/lua run brokerprice
/brokerprice catalog          # full price crawl (~90 min)
/brokerprice tag              # which carried items are worth >= 1p
/brokerprice scan
/brokerprice set 10000
/lua stop brokerprice