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How are "smart prices" on items in hangar/item holds calculated?
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Monty Tycoon
#1 - 2013-09-02 14:31:16 UTC

Hey fellow capsuleers!

- I was wondering exacly how the price on an item is calculated - the price you get once you mouse over an item in your stash. I am asking because it often doesnt really corrospond with the value of the item on the local market. Also, I guess, the total value of your stuff, e.g. in your hangar, is just added value of the ships' "smart price"?

Thanks in advance
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-09-02 14:35:59 UTC
It's a regional average (or universal average?) over a period of time from what I understand, and very wrong in many places.
Monty Tycoon
#3 - 2013-09-02 14:46:43 UTC

I would really like to find out wether it is regional or universal. I guess regional in some regions would be nonsense all the time
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-09-02 14:49:56 UTC
Don't think the devs have ever confirmed exactly how it's calculated. It's often wrong, so you can't trust it no matter how they've done the calculations.
Monty Tycoon
#5 - 2013-09-02 14:53:39 UTC
Ok, thanks anyway for the quick reply :)
Berendas
Ascendant Operations
#6 - 2013-09-02 15:12:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Berendas
If you are referring to the price that shows up by default when you click 'Sell This Item,' that should be the price of the highest buy order on the market. The range (regional,system, station) would depend on who initially set the buy order, but it will never be universal.

Edit: I just reread that you were talking about smart prices and remembered what they actually were. Those are calculated by the combined regional average for sell and buy orders on the item, or something close to that.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#7 - 2013-09-02 17:13:17 UTC
It's the regional average over a 90 day period IIRC.

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Nalestom Zypher
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2013-09-02 23:37:36 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
It's the regional average over a 90 day period IIRC.


I've heard that it's the regional average at the time that servers go down for downtime. For example, if you had a Damage Control II in your hold, the smart price is the regional average as of downtime that day.

CCP hasn't said a lot regarding smart prices and how they're calculated - it'd be nice if somebody tried to figure it out, but I guess the effort involved wouldn't be worth it.

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Snaggletooth Slackjaw
Banana Moon Industries
#9 - 2013-09-03 10:17:15 UTC
I suspect it's universal rather than regional, as you still get estimated isk values on salvage in wormholes, where there are no regional markets at all.

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