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Posted - 2008.09.19 14:36:00 -
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I see this all the time when orders are priced identically. Typically when you sort by price it sorts quantity from lowest to highest. Therefore when you buy from the smaller order because it is sorted first, you are really buying from the largest order.
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Posted - 2008.09.19 14:52:00 -
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There is no bug. Market sells largest order first; probably to avoid people undercutting with a smaller quantity.
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Posted - 2008.09.19 15:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Taikun
Originally by: Block Ukx
There is no bug. Market sells largest order first; probably to avoid people undercutting with a smaller quantity.
Wow. So much fail. I'll let others deliver upon thee with furious vengance.
Taikun
I'm sure a dev can confirm my claim.
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Posted - 2008.09.19 15:14:00 -
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Originally by: Feronia
Originally by: Block Ukx
There is no bug. Market sells largest order first; probably to avoid people undercutting with a smaller quantity.
It is a bug when you can't see the other orders. Only one of them was visible.
Mind you, its not a very common bug. I've only experienced this 3 times (all in Jita) in over 5 years gameplay and I don't think people can reproduce this willingly.
I can reproduce this "bug" by chaging the quantity sorting settings.
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Posted - 2008.09.19 15:35:00 -
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Originally by: Taikun
Edited by: Taikun on 19/09/2008 09:58:35
Now I am sure some... but not all are aware of this. (I have suspected for a long time but never bothered to confirm)
However I now can confirm that market bot hackers exist in Jita.
I have bought 4 billion worth of trit and noticed a funny thing while buying. I selected each seller and bought... and noticed that when I bought 113,353,612 units off of one char and bought... but immediatly they had the same amount up for sale again. So I bought that as well.
Sure enough.... my money went through and got the trit... Only to find another load up for sale. Same volume, same price.
I have done this five times.
Just a FYI for those that use market "volumes" as an indicator of supply for their calculations... trust them as much as you trust CCP.
Taikun
Just one last comment and will leave it at that. Anyone reading this thread can do the test themselves.
Suppose there are more than one order in the market priced the lowest.
For instance,
One selling 20,000 units tritanium at 2.90
One selling 100,000 units tritanium at 2.90
Typically the one with the lowest amount will sort first (the 20,000 units). If I right click the 20,000 to purchase it (because it is listed first) you will notice that next time you look in the market you will see
One selling 20,000 units tritanium at 2.90
One selling 80,000 units tritanium at 2.90
You can repeat the same process five more times until both orders go away, or you can right click the largest order (100,000) from the beginning and purchase the 20,000 order second.
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