market spamming

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.10.2009, 23:05

why do people, typically in the power industry, feel the need to spam the [censored] out of the market with multipe small quantity offers? Someone just posted up like 15 power and water offers... for 50,000 qty each

zzz

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.10.2009, 23:13

He's a newbie. Probably under the misconception that small market offers will reduce market commission or some other majorly noobish misconception.

The best thing we can do is to "NOT BUY FROM HIM AT ALL". It should hurt him.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12.10.2009, 23:15

its not just that person tho... i see it all the time from a variety of people Ya know... instead of putting up 1x 10bil power offer they put up 10x 1bil offers. IDK... seems silly

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 02:27

I know when i do it it makes me feel powerful. and like i got more in the market. lol just kidding.

i know that there are several times where i too lazy to get out the calculator and i cannot post all the power that i want to so i just send like x amount and hit the refresh button after i post the contract. so that i post as many as i can. with the availabe cash.

if the game would tell someone how much they could afford to post then i wouldn't need to worry about this. but i only do it when i don't have the availaby cash and am to lazy to calculat it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 02:29

thats probably the only reasonable reason to do it... lol...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 06:39

Well, as long as it's not done like that idiot 2 weeks ago, who offered 1 amount of water and spammed the entire first page just because "it was fun". That really got to me even though it shouldn't.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 07:33

sirsloop wrote:thats probably the only reasonable reason to do it... lol...

Another reason is that newbs may not know that players can buy part orders and think it will be easier to sell smaller amounts than a couple of million all in one go.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 10:17

Yes podge, I do think that is partly the reason.
Also I believe newbies look at their own situation (as we all do) and decide to sell amounts of products that everyone can afford, fearing that if they put too much at once on the market they will get stuck with it.
I guess the notion that someone could buy 200.000 or even 1M of a product at once is (still) beyond their comprehension.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 10:30

Yeah. I remember the days when I thought putting 20,000 on the market was a big amount.

And being gutted when somebody would put a million on and undercut my price.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 13:36

podge wrote:Yeah. I remember the days when I thought putting 20,000 on the market was a big amount.

And being gutted when somebody would put a million on and undercut my price.

thats what happens to me in R2 xD

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 17:40

Haha. I used to hate that.
I'd be putting my 20.000 stones on the market, checking back 5 minutes later and notice some other person put 3 million stones on the market for 0.50 caps less...

These days, I am that "other person"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 17:46

lol you should pity the people whose name is below you in the market now!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 19:28

I am sure VerconMat feels very bad about it.. and I do too..

But If it is in the stonemarket I actually almost never go lower then the lowest offer because stones are always sold in record time.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.10.2009, 22:44

I think that someone is just trying to lower the price by sending a lot of small amounts to the market. There are sellers, who always put large amounts to the market with the lowest price.

Example: The lowest price is 0.20. Buyer puts a lot of small offers with price 0.19 trying to get next seller to lower his/her price to 0.18.

Once I found this kind of player and I bought all of his/her offers just for fun. I got 2 messages, saying: "Please, don't buy my power", but I just kept buying until that player stopped sending new offers.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14.10.2009, 02:27

Posting many offers on the market pushes competing offers off the first page customers see, which seems unethical.