AutoPincher

A lightweight, fully-local Dalamud plugin that undercuts your FFXIV retainer market listings. It reads each listing straight from game memory, uses the in-game market board's Compare Prices to find the current cheapest competitor, and sets your asking price to 1 gil below it.

• Your own retainers and housing mannequins are never competitors. A listing never sits above your own cheapest copy of the item, so two retainers selling the same thing land on the same price instead of chasing each other down.
• With nobody else selling, the listing is raised to the last sale price, never cut. Turn on Skip when no live competitor to leave those for you to price by hand.
• If the board does not answer in time, the listing keeps its current price.
• A listing never goes below its vendor floor: the lowest asking price that still clears what a vendor pays or charges after the 5% market tax. Below that the listing holds, and one already under it is raised back.

No server, and nothing leaves your client unless you turn on the developer log (see Usage), which sends log lines only to a URL you set. This is the pinch engine from FFMarketConnector, shared through XivHubPluginKit, without the data streaming.

Usage

• All retainers: with AutoRetainer installed, an Auto Pinch button appears next to its retainer-list controls. Open your retainer list (the bell) and click it to walk every retainer with active listings.
• One retainer: open a retainer's sell list and run /autopinch (or the Pinch open retainer now button in the config window).
• Config: /autopincher opens the window — toggle the plugin, and tune the per-item delay and the market-board request delay.
• Developer: an opt-in log mirror for debugging. Tick Send my log lines to a local server and save a URL such as http://<host>:9999/log; it stays inert unless both are set.

Do not touch the keyboard/mouse while a pinch session runs; it drives the game UI.

Dependencies

• ECommons (UI automation, throttling, IPC).
• AutoRetainer — optional. Used only for the inline Auto Pinch button and to pause AR's own automation during a run. The plugin works without it via /autopinch.

Build / deploy

DALAMUD_HOME=~/.cache/dalamud-dev DOTNET_ROOT=~/.dotnet \
  dotnet build AutoPincher/AutoPincher.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64
./publish.sh   # builds Release and merges into the combined XivHub plugin repo

Bump <Version> in AutoPincher/AutoPincher.csproj before every publish.

Disclaimer

Automates gameplay actions, which is against the FFXIV Terms of Service. Use at your own risk.