I have mentioned the market b.o.t. before. In the bidding process I am seeing far more "immediate reactions" that re-post an offer/bid that I just bought/sold. Seeing this happen occasionally is not awkward. Someone else could just as easily be playing the market at the same time. But it has been happening abnormally often lately. This made me suspicious, but there's more.
These bids/offers that get immediately re-posted are almost always 2 million quantity of the given resource. This is what makes me think a market b.o.t. has hit the scene. What are the odds that on 3 different servers there is another guy who like to play the market as often as I do and uses 2 million resource transactions to subtly nudge prices? I'm guessing the 2 million transactions are meant to move prices to some parameter where the player has set up a bunch of 9,999,999 resource transactions.
This is a badly written b.o.t. that is easy to manipulate. I just drove down the price of stone by 95% of the price when I logged in. I stocked up another billion stone just for fun this evening. When more than one of these b.o.t.s. are activated by multiple players, then portional bids make them outbid/undercut each other. The market is easy to manipulate when a few of these things are active.It's fun times for those of us who know how to trick them.
So, the suspensions ended this afternoon and immediately those players have apparently reactivated their b.o.t.s.
I know multiple players using the market b.o.t. have turned them back on. At least on my native server, they have. If they have reactivated the market b.o.t. then I'm sure they are probably more than happy to use the farming and attack ones, too.
So, I think it's clear that the 3day suspension(vacation?) is NOT a disincentive.![]()

It's fun times for those of us who know how to trick them.


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