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Guest · Post by **Guest** » 09.10.2009, 20:29

i think a good limit for the market. would be somehting like
looking at the quality.
for q=o

sum the (item*price) for all the items in the market divide the total by the total number of items in the market. then multiyply it by .25 and have that be the minnimum price that someone can sell an item for.

but remove this rule for the contest item because there will be a spike in price and after the contest it would take forever for the price to return to normal.

but, i also don't like the idea of a minnimum price. i think the market will adjust. if someone is willing to take a loss. they will not be able to keep up that loss for too long. and if they can keep losing money good for them! maybe have items that are being sold for less than production costs be red so that everyone knows to buy these items. instead of banning people.

I know there have been several times where i have sold for less than it costs me to produce. like with ads. i did not realize no one was buying them. so i had my market adds filled full of ads. and i have a lot in my wearhouse so i decided to clean them out. so i sold for a loss so that they would sell quickly. and then i would be able to have room. but i usually am willing to go below the market price for a quick sale! much prefer lower profit and quick sale than long wait it just a preference not a smart business practice.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 11.10.2009, 03:34

If you looking to set a floating price avg why not do as the store prices do? Look at all the market trades done on a product over the past x days/weeks and take the mean as the average price and work off that.
OF course there are still some flaws with this as there may be only 1 or 2 trades of a product at a higher Q and the price can be played with by a powerfull player in the market. Ie Scoro can sell his oil on R2 for dam well whatever he pleases (he dosent thankfully) simply because there is no match for his Q but his price can be 250% of Q0 oil as it currently is and he will still sell vast quantities. Where as with gas 250% would be blatent cheating, gas selling to 150c on R1...
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Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23.11.2009, 16:23

kingrewt wrote:it will restrict the markets if you don't change it every day and that will not be done since the administrators have better things to do with their time than this over elaborated plan

it is not an over elaborated plan, it is a simple run time function:

get the average current market value of this product / quality
figure out 60% higher
figure out 60% lower

is this trade within those borders?
return true / false

done.