Come on OOO fix the market ( CE <-> crowns exchange), there are many valid suggestions already!
This's ridiculous the market now is full of fake offers, walls of all kinds and all those strange economics stuffs. The price can't be stable if players dont have a clear vision of what's happening and instead they see only fake offers.
I thinks it's safe to say that the market system is being exploited.
Fix the market
Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:25
Sun, 06/05/2011 - 04:13
#2
The market system IS being
The market system IS being exploited and it's turning into a monopoly. It's time to put a stop to these "monopolies". Fake offers are when someone posts wtb energy at insanely huge numbers and cancels it a few sec later to give the illusion the prices are going up.
Sun, 06/05/2011 - 04:36
#3
The market system IS being
The market system IS being exploited and it's turning into a monopoly.
As has been explained to you before, there can't be a monopoly when anyone can buy CE with real-life money and sell it. Pushing the market in the direction it is going is not "exploiting" it. The market itself is working reasonably well, it is the game design that is broken. With the current design of the game, I can't think of a compelling reason why the market should not keep going up. The only thing that may be a "problem" with the market is that the low bid increment of only one crown is causing the market to not reach supply/demand equilibrium as quickly as it should.
Sun, 06/05/2011 - 04:45
#4
Wrongo, if the sellers or a
Wrongo, if the sellers or a group of them have conspired to manipulate the market, it becomes a monopoly. Sixeno already proved you can in fact single-handedly manipulate the market, thus creating a monopoly.
No the market is not working well and if people continue saying otherwise I'm going to think you are in on driving up the prices for your own greedy and selfish needs.
Knock it off.
Just because you bought it with $ doesn't mean you get to charge w/e the EFF you want to. You don't just make the game, all players do, includes f2per's to.
If you continue to drive up the prices higher and higher, eventually no one is going to be able to afford it, and even more people will quit the game, no players=dead game.
The game is already on the fast track to hell, let's not speed it up!
Sun, 06/05/2011 - 04:50
#5
It's been manipulated to huge
It's been manipulated to huge extremes.
Last night I was doing a run through t2.. checked mid run and saw energy at 5.5. I decided I'd buy after I reached the end.. Went back to haven and opened the window again... 6.7. That increase was in the space of about half hour. As I watched, I saw buy offers quickly going up with a roughly 80 crown gap between each offer, quickly pushing down the lower offers so they couldn't be seen... This happened over and over.
About an hour after, I saw the reverse... the sell offers rapidly dropping by about 50 a bid.
After these little wars of someone trying to raise it and someone trying to lower it... the "normal" value after seems higher each time. Either two, or three days ago, it was still possible to buy at 5 to 5.1, so this kind of increase really is artificial.
I can't see anything being done officially since I really do think they're going to leave this to the players - but I want to say thank you to those that have attempted to lower it.
whats a fake offer?