Don't be lazy.

Don't be lazy.

Not empty quoting.

Neither am I

By don't be lazy do you mean to say stay awake 24/7 monitoring my orders?

One consequence of this is that prices would be closer to their actual value which should benefit people who are placing orders with immediate fulfillment.

Works for me.

Where do I sign up for your respective newsletters?

Stop being lazy and make your own!

What good does reading my own propaganda do me?

Fair enough. If you guys injoy beating eachother by .01 ISK over and over who am I to complain.

That's not productive feedback...

What good does reading my own propaganda do me?

Fair enough. If you guys injoy beating eachother by .01 ISK over and over who am I to complain.

So, anyone who has been around and working the markets long enough is aware of undercutting by .01 ISK.

I see a big problem with this. It is a task that could theoretically be completely automated rather easily. It is my opinion that any task that can be automated easily is probably going to be monotonous and boring. Monotonous and boring tasks are generally not very engaging and make for gameplay that is unapealing. Trading can be fun, being beat by .01 ISK is not, countering that by undercutting the competition by .01 ISK every 5 minutes is also not fun. This is however something can can be difficult to avoid if you want to have fun trading.

There are some things that I am aware of CCP doing to combat this issue. The first is restricting the use of automated tools to perform this task. Second, there is a 5 minute timer between order modifications. Third there is a minimum brokerage fee for order price changes. These things indicate to me that CCP also sees a problem with .01 ISK trading.

I have been thinking about solutions to this issue that are not game breaking. Here is what I have come up with so far, could it work?

Implement a feature similar to automatic bidders on auction sites. The person placing a buy or sell order would input two prices, the start price and the maximum or minimum price (depending on whether or not it is a sell or buy order). If someone else inputs an order with a start price that beats your start price but not your maximum or minimum price then your order will automatically and instantly be adjusted to beat the new order by .01 ISK (provided that their maximum or minimum does not beat yours, should it beat yours then your order will be adjusted to your best price and theirs would be .01 ISK better).

Anyone who does not want to use this feature would have the option of just setting their best price and start price as the same. Also you could have your order not be adjusted to match orders with less than a certain number of units or less than a certain percentage of the number of units that you have on sale.

One consequence of this is that prices would be closer to their actual value which should benefit people who are placing orders with immediate fulfillment.

Another is that time spent participating in .01 ISK trading will be reduced.

What does everyone think?

What if I told you that market trading doesn't necessarily revolve around 0.01ing each other?

I would slap you down as a dirty great lair and chastise you about revealing our secrets.

That's not productive feedback...

people making multiple orders, in short intervals, insuring that they're always above people with single orders

Nobody enjoys it but you didn't really think this through did you :D

it would be nearly impossible to have the market running at this rate, since the prices would be constantly updating themselves since now they're automated.

"walk the price down"

Not empty quoting.

I love how people completely ignore the fact that I suggested anti manipulation mechanics.

What if I told you that market trading doesn't necessarily revolve around 0.01ing each other?