Market Discussions

I wanted to not post this but I can't see any way that its going to upset my trading, tbh it will hurt the people I hate most...

I hate programs like mentat that allow players to copy paste increments of what they like, causing me and other players to have to type numbers every time we need to update our orders. It drives me mental because of fat fingers, so I did use mentat then I saw its actually slower to update orders by alt tabbing between mentat and eve to copy paste, not to mention how long it takes to actually import market data so that it can do its magic. I began to absolutely hate that program, it has ruined trading for me because every ****, tom and harry with no life is using it now...

I found the solution quite by accident.

Now if people already know this, that's fine don't post but here's how you deal with that tard who just outbid or under cut you by 123456.78 isk.... You double click your competitors order in the market screen, you then have the option to click advanced and setup a new a new buy order, or you can copy the price, then close the window, now right click your order and modify, now paste in the price you copied, then scroll mouse up or down depending on if it is buy or sell and now click ok and done.

This done in a system outside jita is very fast and removed fat finger errors, also makes stacking of orders seem much more like an attractive option to finding that price sweet spot that the 0.01iskiong tards dare not go over...

It just makes things a lot less stressing, its actually a faster method of updating orders when you might have to deal with that annoying person who insists on making you type in numbers, try it :)

nope, its slower.

what are you on about?

Double click, right click, modify, scroll, enter

I would assume a lot play in windowed mode where alt tabbing is not required which is probably where the majority of time wastage occurs

How to win? Don't play the 0.01 isk game .

Hehe , spot on .

Not empty quoting.

Yeah that's exactly why I started using mentat but then I grew to hate mentat because the only reason these people are updating by such amounts each time is because they don't have to type the numbers in for every single order. They just set mentat up to update orders by what ever they want, then it copies the value for them directly into the clipboard at a single mouse click...

Any how, the point of this thread was to offer another way but as always people like to attack others on this forum for the sake of it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/134217832/rr.mp4

A short video demonstrating what I mean, the UI a little laggy due to fraps running and my machine being a piece of crap but with positioning of the buy and sell windows roughly being in the same place, this whole process can greatly improve work flow and sanity



You forgot to mention, opening ingame web browser, having it hammer the eve server for price data using a script inside the browser, then importing the cache data into mentat, also you forgot to mention, exporting your orders from EVE and importing them into mentat because of the time limit imposed with the EVE API. You ignored the fact that this process with mentat can be rather slow when updating over 100 orders at a time, it is also annoying and unnecessary, while mentat is good for tracking your transactions its lazy user features are slower than if you just updated your orders manually when taking into consideration all the steps needed...



See video above, nothing else needs to be said...

The guy keeps trying to win against some imaginary 0.1 isk mentat monster.
I wonder if there is a similar condition in medicine...oh, here it is - schizophrenia.

You should go get tested...

Your method, as described, involves a minimum of 6 steps and key commands which involves moving at least one hand. My method involves what, 3? All without moving either hand from mouse or keypad. But yea, keep keep doin what you're doin, slower competition for me.