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Lux Imperator
Soimii Patriei
Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2013.03.26 00:34:00 -
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I don't know if it was a bot or just a desperate trader, but once I was undercut almost instantly on one of my orders.
So what I did was to put 4 units of that item as buy order and started to undercut the guy /bot. Each time increasing the price by 2 %. Futile to say that after 2 hours my order was filled and his order was filled as well, only he was asking for 12000 thousand units at a 80% higher price almost.
Do bots have any type of protection against this type of maneuver ? How can a bot determine when the competing order is just a scheme ? |
Lux Imperator
Soimii Patriei
Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2013.03.26 18:41:00 -
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The 0,01 thing is the most annoying mechanic you can find in an MMO this days.
Selling stuff on the market should be about ones ability to find lucrative items and negotiate prices (more like an auction house).
In real life how many companies and traders are changing their prices 1 cent 50 times a day ?
Three times I tried to stay in the station trading game and even though I found good items I just didn't had the time and will to play the 0,01 ISK game for too long. No wonder that people use bots as this is the most boring 'activity' you can have.
Please don't take it as a rant, like " OMG this **** bores me so it must be stuuuupid and who ever does it is a no lifer".
I would've do it like this :
1. Seller puts 4000 units for sale at a starting price
2. Traders start to bid for quantities and price. Price can be altered only by a certain % of the start price asked by seller ( thus removing the grind of 0,01). This way , someone that starts to bid has to think a bit before putting the bid and start changing it.
3. After a certain time (+ sniping time) the first bid wins and receives items.
4. If there are items left the auction restarts to determine the second winner and so on.
Thus : no grinding, take brains but less time to do it, much better control of the orders for the buyer, no bots. |
Lux Imperator
Soimii Patriei
Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2013.04.02 20:41:00 -
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Check against mining and trade bots :
Random pop-up box that requests you to answer a quick random math question e.g 2+5 ?
For trade, it appears only after multiple price updates within a given time frame. (I don't think that it should check for 0.01 ISK price changes because they can just modify the bots to do 0.02 ISk or something like that)
Mining bot : Each 20-30 minutes same box same thing.
The check can be skipped once and not answered within a maximum of 5 minutes (to not screw with miners in case they are attacked or something)
In 5 minutes the box can even disappear and no one is kicked from the game. That player is flagged for botting.
Correlate this with some more infractions like this one and reporting from other players.
CCP within one month can have a very big list of people automating the game.
Enjoy |
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