Trolling the Auction

[ianmleavitt]

Originally Posted by BaseballATeam

The folks who put in orders at minimum + 1 crack me up. Y'all know there's a 10% fee, right? The quick sell is literally more profitable.

This isn't how the system works. At the bare minimum, any card sold in the shop will net you the quick sell value. You can never make less than that on a sale.

[dishnet34]

^^^This is correct.

[Ty Cobb]

Every year we seem to have a threadlike this.

1. Supply and demand do not accurately work in this environment. Never have, never will. Why? Because some players try to Bunker Hunt the cards. Google if you don't get that.

2. Some folks try to funnel points. Many get caught and dealt with. Some don't. Got a problem with that like I do? Report a sketchy auction to the mods. It WILL get dealt with.

3. Remember...it's only a game, and they're only points. Don't get too worked up.

4. Dishnet is doing a lot better job than you think, as is Nicolino. They're very busy as well. Sometimes things take more than a day or two.

5. Try and remember what happens to complaints like this in other games. The answer if often nothing. The Dev Team here are more involved than most by far. Don't grouse too much and make that change.

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by Ty Cobb

Every year we seem to have a threadlike this.

1. Supply and demand do not accurately work in this environment. Never have, never will. Why? Because some players try to Bunker Hunt the cards. Google if you don't get that.

2. Some folks try to funnel points. Many get caught and dealt with. Some don't. Got a problem with that like I do? Report a sketchy auction to the mods. It WILL get dealt with.

3. Remember...it's only a game, and they're only points. Don't get too worked up.

4. Dishnet is doing a lot better job than you think, as is Nicolino. They're very busy as well. Sometimes things take more than a day or two.

5. Try and remember what happens to complaints like this in other games. The answer if often nothing. The Dev Team here are more involved than most by far. Don't grouse too much and make that change.

1. I agree.

2. Absolutely.

3. Keep getting worked up! They are only points, but points are all that matter.

4.Wholeheartedly agree. I especially miss Dish on TWIPT. Paul is great and knowledgeable, but boring compared to Rob.

5. So, we should sit in the corner and be thankful no matter what is thrown at us? Not my style!

[Ty Cobb]

Kushiel, I'm not saying lay back and enjoy. I'm saying complain about the important stuff. Too many here complain because they haven't read the <fine> label, like the OP for example. He seems under the mistaken belief that a free market exists, some Keynesian ideal where supply and demand set prices. People who believe in ideas like that usually also believe we can solve debt by just printing more money.

BTW Kush...I know in my heart of hearts that you are one of the few who gets the reference.

[Kushiel]

Yes!

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by Ty Cobb

Remember...it's only a game, and they're only points. Don't get too worked up.

How dare you, sir.

Perfect points ARE LIFE.

[Ty Cobb]

No, sir. Skyboxes and 2-d reskies are life. Points are more like indulgences. 🤣🤣🤣

[BaseballATeam]

Originally Posted by ianmleavitt

This isn't how the system works. At the bare minimum, any card sold in the shop will net you the quick sell value. You can never make less than that on a sale.

What I mean is it's not worth the time to press multiple button when you can quick sell for 25 instead of 26. Nobody's actually out there min/maxing over 1 PP, right?

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by BaseballATeam

What I mean is it's not worth the time to press multiple button when you can quick sell for 25 instead of 26. Nobody's actually out there min/maxing over 1 PP, right?

You don't even get the 1 PP - if you sell it for 28 PP or less, you get 25 PP, same as quicksell.

It's really just a nice thing to do for your fellow players, no benefit to yourself.

Before I quick sell a bunch of non-live bronze/iron dupes I always order it by buy-order, and fill all buy orders first, including minimum ones. Then quicksell.

[BaseballATeam]

I just set everything to ~2X the default value up through bronze. With the combinators, everything reasonably priced sells eventually. I don't think I've had a card sit more than a week. And I don't rip enough packs to have silver+ dupes. I get the free pack and close out about one mission per day.

I guess I'm not nice. I feel exploited if you're taking my card for the same as the quick sell.

[psav13]

Originally Posted by onlythewitz

This past weekend, it seems some users have taken it upon themselves to break your game by repeatedly trolling the auction house and screwing up the economics of buying and selling cards. There is zero self-interest in doing this, so certainly they must find it fun to sell players for 10-15x less their avg rate resetting the avg rates on some players extremely low compared to where they have been settling. The effect is that it resets the market for those players and every ensuing deal transacts from that data as a start point. I've started to set my prices much higher but unless large population does this, it wont be corrected. Do you guys have any policing of this activity, or it is what it is?

I’m still stumped by the OP that seems to suggest that prices should only go up, that selling below the L10 is “breaking the game," and that we all should collude with him by overpricing cards to help him artificially manipulate the market.

[jksander]

Originally Posted by Ty Cobb

No, sir. Skyboxes and 2-d reskies are life. Points are more like indulgences. 🤣🤣🤣

Yes! This ... I need another 100 great skyboxes from you, sir!

[Ty Cobb]

I was going to transplant today, but it's too rainy for my old *** to be outside for long. Instead, I'm curating skybox pics from the shore of Portugal that I copped from the Great Evil Corporation's World Surveillance Map™. Should be worked out soon when I come across a good one. Have you been to the blog and checked out the older ones?

[jksander]

Originally Posted by Ty Cobb

I was going to transplant today, but it's too rainy for my old *** to be outside for long. Instead, I'm curating skybox pics from the shore of Portugal that I copped from the Great Evil Corporation's World Surveillance Map™. Should be worked out soon when I come across a good one. Have you been to the blog and checked out the older ones?

I don't think I have the blog link ... feel free to DM me a link