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Market abuse?

Started by EnderWiggin · 31/05/2015 · 05:42 AM · 9 replies · 0 reads

OP 31/05/2015 · 05:42 AM #1

I don`t know if posting hundreds of stacks of food at the minimum amount is abuse or not, but it`s really annoying to be forced to spend 5-10 minutes buying batches of 10k food that were all posted at roughly the same time... Not to mention it makes your event history spammed as heck.

9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !
9:38 PM 30/05/15 You have bought 10,000 units of Food for 90,000 $ !

11 pages of that just to buy some food. -_-

Y Yoshi

31/05/2015 · 10:37 PM #10

There is a limit of 16 post per 15-20min or so but that limit can be "bypassed" by relogin.

M mompyuser

31/05/2015 · 01:12 PM #9

PRolly an new empire wich needs the cash quickly

P Pandy

31/05/2015 · 10:23 AM #8

Ender I know what you mean though, it would be nice if you could decide a figure you wanted to purchase, and you just purchased it, so that regardless of who and how many were sold per posting you could.

eg

terran metal 10,000 @ 950
terran metal 5,000,000 @1,000

You purchase 1,000,000, and the first 10,000 comes from that first posting, the rest comes from the second.
negatives are
- risk of overspending - is that someone might commit to buying at 950, but not at 1,000 and then would be stuck with it, though this could probably be avoided with a formula permitting only items of the same initial cost.
---- Mind you this can be a risk in the market anyway, and does add a little excitement, as in
"whoa~! yay I did get that at the low price before anyone else spotted it"
or
"omg I`m going to slaughter/enslave the empire who just bought those out before I did"

- makes it easier for richest empires to buy out the market

positives are
- easier to buy out the market

E EnderWigginOP

31/05/2015 · 09:39 AM #7

OK. Yeah, I wasn`t sure if it was considered abuse or not. Just extremely annoying.

W wolf359

31/05/2015 · 09:32 AM #6

Hmm... well, maybe I am incorrect. wouldnt be the first time ^^

P Pandy

31/05/2015 · 08:33 AM #5

I don`t recall any limits like that between 2004 to 2012,I`ll admit I`ve not been that active in the last 3 years and haven`t bothered to read the forums when I`ve logged in.

From memory the only time someone was warned about it ever officially was when their bot was detected and was posting 1 mineral at a time, the warning was more about the bot from memory.

W wolf359

31/05/2015 · 08:28 AM #4

I thought the limit was 15 posts per 15 minutes or something....

P Pandy

31/05/2015 · 08:06 AM #3

or the food.

P Pandy

31/05/2015 · 08:05 AM #2

Maybe that person was hoping that one player didn`t buy all the minerals.

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