Tasko Pal
THE IRIS
United Freemen Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.01 02:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Buster Gonads
Indeed the bots are so pervasive in Eve that I don't bother running as a trader (sure it works in some niche areas) and when I have things to sell, rather than lose the will to live fighting bot prices, I tend to sell to the best buy order.
Is there a solution to this? I mean other than writing my own bot!
The fact market bots exist is a testament to the fact the game mechanic and the interface used for trading is, for lack of a better word, lame as hell.
In an ideally constructed trader game mechanic and client trading user interface, using a third party bot would have no benefits whatsoever, or negligible benefits at best.
How to do that ? Either make those things that make a bot good impossible to do (which in itself would be nearly impossible to do) or make the bot irrelevant (by introducing server-side logic/automation that would do pretty much the same thing automatically for everybody, eliminating the need for a bot in the first place).
Other than pushing CCP towards that ideal situation (which, let's be honest, will never going to happen), all you can do is what the OP tried (not all that succesfully) to do and make a profit off the sloppily programmed bot's back.
Well, that or write your own (better) market bot :shrug: and risk getting banned.
Akita, you are way off here. First, I don't think it's possible for CCP to implement a sufficiently powerful automated solution that can outweigh the advantages of a sophisticated macro program. The latter can potentially trade over every item in every region (depending how expansive and powerful you make the macros, and backend programs and databases). So should CCP implement on the server-side several programming languages and host thousands of databases so people can run their own automated trade systems? It would be better to just expose the API, charge fees for access or any activity (like refreshing the market) that sucks resources, and let the macros run with it.
As it is, CCP has clearly shown that they want active traders (like any other profession) to be at the keyboard. IMHO, CCP won't implement a solution that neuters that goal.
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