Data Hooks
ProtonAuctions is in public beta. See Beta Phase for what is stable and what is still maturing.
The engine learns from your auction house automatically, but your auction house is not your whole economy. Your players also buy and sell through shop plugins, trade with each other, sell to the server and send each other money. Data hooks let the engine see that too, for a fuller and faster picture of what things are worth and who is trading with whom.
Hooks give the engine three kinds of information:
- Sale prices from player shops and player trades, learned like auction sales.
- Price limits from server shops, sell plugins and NPC traders. What the server pays becomes a price floor and what it charges a price ceiling.
- Money between players, such as
/pay, coinflips and duel bets, checked for alt rings and never used for prices.
Each hook is optional, has its own switch, and only turns on when the plugin it reads is actually installed.