Heya,
didn?t know what to call the thread, but this will do. I dunno either if this is a known issue or if there are more threads about this, I looked around but couldn?t find any. If there are many of these threads already I beg of forgiveness.
The marketplace in server 65 acts very strange. Every 10-20 seconds or so(it varies), "something" places new bids and offers automatically just to control the market prices.
In the food section someone has decided that the price for food "should be" 16 gold ea. The bot or program or whatever then automatically places weird bids, usually consisting of 2000 000 units or less per bid.
If the market looks like this:
market_bot1.jpg
In a minute it turns into this:
market_bot2.jpg
Then:
market_bot3.jpg
Then finally into this:
market_bot4.jpg
Then suddenly someone might come along and offer say 100 mil food at 16 gold each, and then the market gets "locked" there for a while. If you buy out all the 16+ offers then its back down again to 16 each in a minute or two again, doesn?t matter how many times you do it. I have tried sitting there for an hour or more only buying out the weird bids to try and sell my food at the price it "should" be at(which was over 30g ea about a week ago before the "bot" arrived), only to have the price plummet to 16-20 in a few minutes again.
You can even trick the bot if you want, sell all your food so that the lowest BID-price for food is as low as you want it, say 3.02 gold, then quickly place 5 or so OFFERS at lets say 3.74g down to 3.69g. The "Bot" will then begin placing bids at between 3.02 and 3.69 gold, I?m pretty sure no ordinary player would think "Yeah what i kickass deal!" and place an offer of 1100 Food at 3.34g ea, when a few minutes ago it was up to 29g each.
If you look at the "bot" offers you can also see that it always places offers and bids with 5 digits, like 16.823, while I can only use 4 digits, in that case 16.82 (sometimes it places even bids though, like 16.550 wich turns into 16.55).
Same thing with Lumber, "someone" has decided it should be 60g ea instead of 30+ a week ago.
This has definitely destroyed my Evony experience, I have been holding the no. 1 prestige spot for awhile now, and while I know prestige means nothing, that was my fun but this has made me not want to play at all.
Anyone else experienced this? It?s easy to check if you just watch the market.
Cheers,
Lefnart





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