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Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
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Posted - 2013.03.27 16:19:00 -
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I would call station trading bots a surprisingly minor issue in the Eve universe.
Station trading in itself has always been a third party cancer on the market between the industry and the consumer so I have no sympathy for them if they have to spend all day symbolically undercutting each other by one isk on every order.
I oppose station bots on a moral level. I just don't feel too sorry for the traders.
Sort of like the mining bots. Good for the consumer. Bad on principle. We miss you Saede. |

Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
350
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Posted - 2013.03.27 17:11:00 -
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Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:Angelique Duchemin wrote:I would call station trading bots a surprisingly minor issue in the Eve universe.
Station trading in itself has always been a third party cancer on the market between the industry and the consumer so I have no sympathy for them if they have to spend all day symbolically undercutting each other by one isk on every order.
I oppose station bots on a moral level. I just don't feel too sorry for the traders.
Sort of like the mining bots. Good for the consumer. Bad on principle. What you call "third party cancer" is at the foundation of any liquid market and the reason why markets self-optimize and self reduce spreads to the minimum allowed by their average traded volume. In RL when these "third party cancers" miss, exchanges have to pay specialty companies called liquidity providers to provide traders a viable working environment.
I'd accept that if there weren't 1500 of you sitting in the same station buying up and reselling the same things that the miner just dropped off.
All those billions that are generated in between the industry and the consumer weren't spun out of thin air. We miss you Saede. |

Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
352
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Posted - 2013.03.27 17:25:00 -
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Brewlar Kuvakei wrote:Then set up a nice macro and get part of the action. The sooner more peeps learn about ELUA legal macro's the better. Lets just destroy all margins in every eve hub so CCP can stop being able to sprout utter rubbish about a player run market.
They might actually clamp down on multi boxers and macro peeps then.
I'd rather just do what I do now. Fly around nullsec shooting stuff all day without a care for what the losses cost. if I ever need some additional ISK I'll just sell some plexes.
We miss you Saede. |

Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
352
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Posted - 2013.03.27 18:25:00 -
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Bugsy VanHalen wrote: Consider this, a $15 sub which is common for MMO's plus $2 per day adds up to $75 per month cost to the company. If each employee is averaging them $50 week income from selling the earned in game currency for real money thru the companies website,, that is $200 per month. Or $125 profit. multiply that by 200 employees that is $25,000 per month. Ad administration fees and building maintenance, etc, they are still going to be making at least $15,000-$20,000 per month profit. Not a lot of money for a company of 200 employees, at least not in the US or western Europe. But in a country where the average monthly income for a person is only $40-$60 per month that is a lot of money. And these employees are grateful as it is one of the best paying jobs in their county. In a country where the equivalent of $2 USD per day is a really good gob a company making $20,000 per month is a very successful company.
this is why botting and thrid party gold/isk sellers will never die. it is not some guy in his basement trying to make a little extra money, it is companies in third world country's with no other option to make that kind on money.
But who cares if thousands of people in poor countries feed their families with the money they make on this. They are effecting my time sink internet space ships so it's morally unjustifiable and they are evil for it.
We miss you Saede. |

Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
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Posted - 2013.03.31 17:29:00 -
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I've been buying Warrior II drones in Jita using buy orders. I needed 500 to nullsec so I figured a buy order of 500 set somewhere between the buy and sell order prices would get me some quick drones.
The buy order price instead went from 378k per drone to now 426k per drone in about 30 minutes. The sell orders being 427k.
And I still only have 106 of the 500 drones I was looking for.
Once I have my 500 drones the price is going to crash.
If you station traders had just let me have my 500 drones at 400k then the price could go back to 378k once I was done. We miss you Saede. |
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