Amais
Minmatar
Medusas and Snails
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Posted - 2009.03.17 12:06:00 -
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Hello,
I see here two eternal issues: a trader cannot leave a region if he wants to be the most efficient and a trader has to be in front of he's screen 24/7 to under/over cut other orders.
The automatic bidding system is not viable, as soon as two people have their margins over each other, one of them will automatically arrive to he's maximum in a very short time. And, the system is not made for rapid changes in prices (did you ever had the "This order doesn't exist anymore...").
As a trader, I will feel myself more confortable with just one additional information next to my order. A new coloumn which will tell me when, statistically, my order will be processed. CCP has the average number of items sold for the last weeks, they know how many people are "in front of you" with the number of items and their prices "in front of you".
An exemple ... of this estimated time of completion.
A buy order looks like this:
.........................Units...............Price............Station......Expiration time.......ETC
Ferrogel_____19988/20000____42.185_____Jita 4.4_____89d 23h 58'_____1d 21h
2 days ? I think I wouldn't be happy with that :) So I'll go and change it to overcut my first opponent. And this will give:
.........................Units...............Price............Station......Expiration time.......ETC
Ferrogel_____19988/20000____42.250_____Jita 4.4_____89d 23h 58'_____Imminent
Imminent is quiet ok, but I'll feel a little bit dumb if the market is dropping so I decide to put a price with a latence of 12 hours.
.........................Units...............Price............Station......Expiration time.......ETC
Ferrogel_____19988/20000____42.200_____Jita 4.4_____89d 23h 58'_______13h
13h is ok for me. I can go to sleep. I can go whatever spend my isk in pvp and never don't come back again to this f***ing orders page.
I see you coming, "your ETC will change very fast and is very nasty to set up a correct formula to look into the future"
You are perfectly right, but ... I don't really care of the accuracy :) I just want to be quiet in my Ishtar pwning n00bs in Branch ...
Of course, the ETC can be seen independently of your current location...
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