Skill Discussions

Something dawned on me the other day. I have spent many months training in the Trade school of skills, but regardless I have to wait to change my orders just as long as every other trader out there. How does this make sense?

There should be a new trade skill introduced that allows Traders (you must train up to Tycoon or Wholesale at the very least) that allows you to reduce the modify time on your orders by 5% per level.

This would result in a 25% time window for "advanced" traders to modify their orders, allowing them more dominance on the field.

Implementation shouldn't be a problem...

Thoughts?

For starters you have to be heavily invested in trade to train such a skill. Currently station trading can be done with anyone fresh off the street. The only thing that currently changes is order visibility, margin, tax, etc.; this would split off the "traders" from the real traders. This would allow a thoroughly trained Trader an edge in market placements.

Then in regards to .01 wars - YES that is the point. Trade happens through .01 battles.

Me, being a higher trained Trader, would then have the ability to modify my orders 25% faster than you, which only makes sense.

It's analogous to having a trader on the floor of the market, versus using e-trade to place their positions.

Someone who updates their orders once a day has no business with this skill.

This skill is for those are daytrade, and change orders every x minutes.

Again, I have 1.6mil+ SP in Trade alone. This skill sounds reasonable.

As it is, mainly bots would profit from such a skill, imo.

As mentioned above, the more orders you have on the market, the less you would need a shorter time to modify again.
How long do you need to update an order? 1) Bringing up the specific order 2) Checking if it is no longer at the top 3) Light spin of the mouse wheel, 4) Hit enter, 5) perhaps clicking away the warning.
That takes what, 3 seconds? If so, then having more then 100 Orders on the market already takes up those 5 minutes..... UNLESS oc, you are a bot, who can probably modify an order in considerably less than 3 seconds.

Now, if the present cool-down would be dependant on the number of orders placed on the market, for example 5 minutes for up to 100 orders, 10 minutes for 101-200 orders and 20 minutes for 201+ orders, THEN such a skill would make sense: someone who just babysits a few number of orders would be able to do so faster (as well as the poster above me), while a bot - who, I assume, can modify an order instantly - would still take longer then the present 5 minutes.

Have 2 orders for the same product, you have suddenly cut the update time by half.

And if you are a bigtime trader, you have more than one trader in the same station, so double the post Im quoting, and double the speed of refreshing real orders. Belive me, CCP want you to have one more account instead of putting this skill into play.

Ian Moone

How about this...

5 minute timer if you're modifying a price downward by more than 1%.
1 hour timer if you're modifying a price downward by less than 1%.

Or whatever values you want, you get the idea. No need for additional trade skills to be involved tbh.