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market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:19 am
by Calesta
using the market as a bank shouldnt be allowed
it is a misuse of the market. another way to keep loot from being in the open

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:30 pm
by Sarevok
I agree, and taking suggestions in relation to stop its exploitation.

Current line of thinking is as follows:
*10% fee when cancelling a trade
*Bank upgrades cheaper (50%), and provide several steps up, and not just one at a time
*Adjust weapon re-sell values slightly

Taking other suggestions :D

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:15 pm
by Calesta
how about just looking at the market daily and see who is doing it since its happening as we speak
currently no person in the game has over 4000 uu so why is this broker up? obvious misuse

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:23 pm
by Sarevok
Because what happens when I'm away.

But for the interim, I'll put a 50% fee on, till we can sort something out.

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:35 pm
by Calesta
fair enough

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:31 pm
by Sarevok
Proposed by someone ingame. Did not want to be named on forum.
I think there should also be a 15-30min grace period in which you can cancel your "broker" in case you make a mistake. After that time, you cannot cancel for 8h, after which you lose 50% of resource X

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:32 pm
by Juliette
Sarevok wrote:Proposed by someone ingame. Did not want to be named on forum.
I think there should also be a 15-30min grace period in which you can cancel your "broker" in case you make a mistake. After that time, you cannot cancel for 8h, after which you lose 50% of resource X
Makes sense. ;)

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:43 pm
by Sarevok
Personally I think 50% is a little steep. If for some reason the market skyrockets or crashes over night whilst you sleep, then your trade may well be out of date, and the only way to update the exchange rate, would be to accept a 50% loss.

Re: market misuse

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:41 am
by Field Marshall
It does not appear that there are anymore comments to Saverok's post, if anyone needs this re-opened, please PM myself or another mod.

*closed*

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:50 am
by Bromas
Unlocked on the request of ljietuvis

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:55 am
by ljietuvis
I believe there is another way to use the market as a bank.
If there are two players who want to store x amount of naq each, they can both make an offer of y amount of uu's for x amount of naq. Then they both accept each other's offer and there's x amount of naq they can take from the market whenever they want, unless there is some sort of time limit after which the player automatically collects the naq which I didn't notice.
Anyway, if I'm right, I would suggest that if someone's trade offer is accepted, he would automatically collect the naq/uu's 48 hours after his/her first log in after the trade is accepted.

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:07 am
by Sarevok
ljietuvis wrote:I believe there is another way to use the market as a bank.
If there are two players who want to store x amount of naq each, they can both make an offer of y amount of uu's for x amount of naq. Then they both accept each other's offer and there's x amount of naq they can take from the market whenever they want, unless there is some sort of time limit after which the player automatically collects the naq which I didn't notice.
Anyway, if I'm right, I would suggest that if someone's trade offer is accepted, he would automatically collect the naq/uu's 48 hours after his/her first log in after the trade is accepted.
This would be risky, but I see the logic behind this. Any suggestion about a work around?

(First thing that popped into my head was a 10% unit loss[like main] on UU exchanges)

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:02 pm
by Dubby_CompGamerGeek2
units lost on main are only 1%. :)

Re: market misuse

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:41 pm
by Sarevok
Dubby_CompGamerGeek2 wrote:units lost on main are only 1%. :)
Right, and Main also has raiding :razz:

Any rate, do people have suggestions for a method to prevent this?

Re: market misuse

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:50 am
by Field Marshall
I need to understand this a little better.

There is no option for me to cancel my market offering? So, is this in reference to the time out on the trades (12 hours)?