Shadarle
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Posted - 2007.10.27 18:27:00 -
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Edited by: Shadarle on 27/10/2007 18:27:50
 Originally by: Sphynx Stormlord
Currently, the people who pay most attention most often to the market get sales, due to being able to undercut/overcut (depending on sell/buy order type) more often than their competitors.
What would be interesting would be to have an automatic price increasing system, similar to that used on ebay.
For example, instead of putting in a buy order for tritanium at 2.03 isk, because the highest current buy order for trit at my station is 2.02 isk, I would put in a buy order saying I am prepared to pay 3 isk for trit. And eve would create that order at 2.03, outbidding the other player's 2.02 order.
Unless their 2.02 isnt their maximum - then the order would increase untill one of us reached a maximum, and then that becomes the new buy order price, for whoever offered the higher max.
Having a setting for order sise with which one wants to compete would also be useful, so one can set it to not have ones price chased up by one unit orders.
How well would this work in eve, do people think?
It would definatly close price gaps a lot faster, rather than long periods of insignificant uptates.
People already do this with their updates, they set the max price they wanna pay and they only pay more if they are forced to because they are beaten. No one wants to pay more. I think the only thing this would do is to lessen margins by a few percent for a while, then eventually it would have absolutely no impact at all as people wouldn't bother using it. Or I could be wrong and they'd keep using it and margins would just be crap.
People who have proposed this in the past never seem to have fully thought it through. They just look at the immediate personal benefits they would get out of this change, but they forget that if everyone else had this it would offset the benefits completely.
I really think eventually the margins get so small that each person would just begin manually adjusting prices by .01, so as to not let the price get too much higher.
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