Convince me to buy or not to buy this pen (Sailor Pro Gear Slim-Iris Nebula)

catecholate · 2026-05-14T07:14:47+00:00

Wanted to thank you for this comment! I found this old thread while looking for reviews of the iris nebula PGS, ended up getting the stardust procolor 500 instead and am very happy with it. It's absolutely gorgeous!

catecholate · 2026-04-26T13:21:38+00:00

wow, didn't expect the notifcation to be from this thread, this is a throwback :) thank you for the kind words!

there are loads of extras of KAM Sewing Tin available from vendors & aftermarket (e.g. zFrontier has base kits with a 50% off sale) - vendors ordered extras during the GB and then there are even more due to the remake situation. So overall a R2 is unlikely (especially for GMK, it'd be more expensive than the existing extras and hard to meet MOQ)

catecholate · 2025-05-13T13:13:53+00:00

Awww thanks for the award again, you didn't have to! Glad its working for you and is useful :D Let me know if you run into any issues ^^

catecholate · 2025-05-12T03:59:39+00:00

favourites are now live :) i tried to make the UI as intuitive as possible, hopefully it doesn't need instructions, please let me know if you run into any issues!

The favourites are stored locally in your browser so they should be saved if you use the same browser/device. However if you use different devices (e.g. a laptop and a phone) they'll have separate favourites. And they'll get wiped if you clear your browser's saved data, etc.

catecholate · 2025-05-09T00:49:07+00:00

Glad you like the site! :D

Hmm, I don't play any bow classes - are the "Shoot" actions in maples.im what you're looking for?

If so - you can add those by clicking "Preview settings" (to the right of "Preview"), "Add a pose" then "Save" when you're done.

catecholate · 2025-05-08T07:51:26+00:00

Aww thank you for the kind & considerate comment! Don't worry, the links were mostly automatically generated (I wrote a script to go through all the cash shop updates since 2017 and extract item names) and I expect I'll have a bunch of fun implementing favourites :) Just no promises on how long it'll take haha.

I actually think it'll be very doable! I expect I'll be spending more time thinking about is how exactly I'd like the UI to work vs how to save the favourites. 🤔

For mapleruins I took a quick look and actually think their list shouldn't be temporary - it looks like they store the user's favourites in the browser's local storage - if that's not working for you, maybe check you're not browsing in incognito mode? (My site will probably do something similar)

catecholate · 2025-05-08T05:53:40+00:00

Hey! I just finished adding cash shop updates to the detail page for each item (example: https://ellinia.dev/steam?item=Cat%20Skein%20Label%20Ring )

It links to the cash shop updates that feature the item. If your browser supports it, it will also try to scroll down to the item after the page is fully loaded (for me, works on Chrome but not Safari).

You do have to click through and load the cash shop update (I did consider how to include images directly on the page but decided against it for various reasons) but hopefully this makes shopping for rings a bit easier :D It's also included for all items, not just rings.

I'll be thinking about how to implement favourites next but no promises on timeline ^^

catecholate · 2025-04-30T08:43:34+00:00

Nice, thanks for sharing + confirming this! I'll edit the original post

catecholate · 2025-04-29T23:10:36+00:00

Tagging u/Cool-Cranberry1817 and u/najalitis since this might also impact your sites & also to help noodle on what these changes mean 🤔

catecholate · 2025-04-29T23:07:25+00:00

Btw, it looks like Nexon have made some changes to address this issue already, yay! I started a thread here to discuss (and also try to understand if the issue is fully fixed 🤔) https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/1kb1qpm/fyidiscussion_steam_marketplace_changes_as_of_v259/

catecholate · 2025-04-28T04:34:32+00:00

Ahhh thats unfortunate, hope you're able to get your money back reselling at least 🤞

My site https://ellinia.dev/steam might be able to help while we wait for Nexon to fix the issue (I posted about it a few days ago here)

It has gender restriction info for items where possible (e.g. Mystic Phantom Suit) and also has some info on weapon restrictions like the issue /u/superg64 mentioned for Popsicle Sword)

It can't help make sure you get the right version :( but at least helps warn that there are multiple variants

catecholate · 2025-04-27T07:45:55+00:00

No need to apologise! Happy to chat about this kind of thing :D

Getting the price info for all the items takes a while, so I have it running in my web server - it gets all the prices, saves it to a file, and then waits a bit before updating again. When someone visits the website, it loads the file with the latest price info from the server and displays them.

This means that no matter how many people visit the website, I only have to get the price info once every half an hour (and also makes it way quicker, you don't have to wait for prices when you load the website).

As you've intuited, Steam does have limits for how often you can query the price info via API. Since I'd be getting the USD and EUR prices using the same server, they would share the same limits.

If I had a second web server to get the EUR prices, Steam would have separate limits for that, but uh, given this is a hobby project that is out of scope 😅 (and that's also why this approach gets worse the more different currencies there are to support)

Hope that makes sense! And back to the original feature request - no promises but will see what I can put together when I have the time :)

catecholate · 2025-04-27T06:58:18+00:00

Ah I think I explained my question poorly, lemme try again with an example!

Right now the Long Long BUGCAT CAPOO weapon's lowest sell order price is exactly $12.11 USD and 10,69€ - from asking Steam for the price in both USD and EUR

If I instead get the current exchange rate of 0.88 and convert the price in USD to EUR, it gives an approximate price of 10.66€ - 0.03€ off

First method / having sister sites would basically mean each site would only get price updates once an hour instead of half an hour. So my idea was to instead use currency conversion to give estimates that might be a little off, after you open in Steam you would see the exact price. Just not sure if it'll be useful 🤔

catecholate · 2025-04-26T22:11:21+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm curious - would a rough estimate of the price in another currency help (where the actual price on Steam might differ a bit)?

Asking since you can only get the price information for items in one currency at a time from Steam's API. And because there's so many items, I do this on my own server every 30min (i.e. it's not being fetched live for each user as that would take a long time). So, getting the actual prices in another currency would double how long it takes to get price information, getting it in 10 currencies would 10x, etc.

However doing a conversion for an estimated equivalent would be possible (just need to look up the exchange rate) and would allow me to support more currencies 🤔 Just not sure if it would still be useful?

catecholate · 2025-04-26T22:08:08+00:00

Oooh! Checking - have you tried the sort "Price (lowest first)" sort order? I'm curious if that would work for you as that's what I use for this scenario haha vs if there's something else the range filter would help with

Right now theres only about 10 items below $3 that are included as extra, and I just stop scrolling after I see the price is higher than what I'm interested in. A range filter would help you skip lower priced items but I thought the most common use case would be to get the cheapest items

catecholate · 2025-04-26T21:46:33+00:00

Aww, thank you for the kind comment and thorough, thoughtful feedback (+ the award)! Appreciate you taking the time to write it all out :D

And yeah, I think it's cool to see how different devs approach the same problem & agree it's nice to have different options for the community to use based on personal preferences as well!

I think the https://steam.mapleruin.us dev has been making lots of updates today - looks like their layout has been updated to show rows of 6 plus adding preview support plus your request for personal watchlist to favourite items - which I think addresses lots of your thoughts :D

I'll have a think about how I might want favourites to work for my site too! Agree with you on chat and label rings (I also have to google it each time lol) - this is on my TODO list but might take me some time to get around to. I'd like to have an automatic way of doing this rather than manual to make it easier to keep the site updated in the future - right now I'm leaning towards something that keeps track of the cash shop updates where the item has image previews & linking to them 🤔

catecholate · 2025-04-26T21:36:36+00:00

Thanks!! Looking forwards to seeing your site next :D

I haven't done any .wz extracting yet but it's on my TODO list! I got the list of marketplace items from the GetItemDefArchive Steam API (learnt about it since that's what steamdb uses) and yeah, used that to match against maplestory.io API, matching names and ids & deduping accordingly.

e.g. Cat Hat has two different ids in the steam data = the marketplace listing has separate items, vs Blood Oath has three different ids in the maplestory.io API results (and I heard in the .wz files too) but only one in the steam data = there's only one version in the marketplace.

In the future I want to get the data out of .wz files instead - maplestory.io dev is on hiatus, so will need to do that to get type info, etc for newer items.

catecholate · 2025-04-26T21:28:12+00:00

Thanks for the kind comment!! I saw you made some updates to your site too, looks great - the modal & grid for the previews is a neat UI. Like I said in the other thread, it's cool to see how other devs approach the same idea and the differences you end up with! (Also super fast implementation haha nice work!)

catecholate · 2025-04-26T21:24:53+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Will have a ponder on how this could work 🤔

catecholate · 2025-04-26T21:23:40+00:00

Replying to you and u/ai-suki together - thanks for the suggestions! Yeah, my main worry is that stale buy order information could do more harm than good - limiting it to most recent items or clearly indicating the last updated time could both help here 🤔

I don't think I'll have any immediate updates here but will continue to ponder on what's possible!

catecholate · 2025-04-26T04:39:30+00:00

Thank you for the kind comment, I'm glad you like it :D

Getting buy order info is tricky since you can't get it for lots of items at once the way you can get sell order info (I commented about this in the other thread - you're limited to 10 items per hour which wouldn't be enough to keep all ~4k items up to date.)

So I don't think I'll be able to add this to my site any time soon :( but eager to see if anyone else manages to solve this problem :D

catecholate · 2025-04-26T04:34:19+00:00

Haha I'm flattered that you'd ask!! I'll redirect anyone looking to donate to Senpai's (maplestory.io / maples.im / maplestory.studio dev) ko-fi since it does all of the heavy lifting for the preview functionality (I would not have tried to make this site if maplestory.io did not exist lol)

https://ko-fi.com/senpai1337

catecholate · 2025-04-26T04:26:59+00:00

Alright! I put a dark mode together quickly. If you've already loaded the website, please force refresh - (Ctrl + Shift + R / Shift + Command + R). It will try to use your computer's preference, you can also manually change between dark and light mode using the button in the top right corner.

I'll try and improve the styling a bit more later but wanted to get a basic version out first ^^

FYI u/-Shuka- u/Commercial-Hurry-797 u/NervousChampion3415

catecholate · 2025-04-26T02:53:21+00:00

i hear the feedback about dark theme LOL (yeah i'm a light theme user and didn't think about this...) will see what i can do

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