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Buy Order Decimals Does it Work?
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RomeStar
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-05-25 12:34:44 UTC
I like to play the market and I notice how sellers like to place .01 on the end of there buy orders so it looks like a larger ammount then next buy order. Any noob who thinks they are JP Morgan and sees a larger buy # will fall for this. I have tried it a few times and it hasnt worked yet. I was wondering if anyone can confirm that this tactic works?

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Chevalleis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-05-25 12:48:44 UTC
Er... Wut? If you want to make decimals, use the comma, not period.
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#3 - 2012-05-25 12:59:45 UTC
I am confused.

Most orders have decimals, and it is not to confuse people into thinking the order is bigger

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Wylenith
Joe's Towing - You Smash It We Trash It
#4 - 2012-05-25 15:23:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Wylenith
I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of the .01 Isk game. It's not to trick anyone into buying/selling anything.

Market Vets, correct me if I'm wrong but the purpose is to be at the top of the list for when missioners do a right click -> Sell. The system picks the highest value buy order that can be fulfilled and uses that one to sell to. That way, if I have a Region wide order out on... 1MN AB's, everyone who is selling those directly sells to me.

So it's not a matter of tricking players into anything, it's a matter of forcing the system to fulfill your orders first.

Oh and YES, it works. Big smile
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#5 - 2012-05-25 15:49:56 UTC
Yes, you have to have the top order...otherwise nothing gets sold to, or bought from you.

Whether you are buying/selling on station, or region wide, you need to have the best price otherwise you will be waiting a while for your goods.

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MailDeadDrop
Archon Industries
#6 - 2012-05-25 20:23:17 UTC
Furthermore, the period ( . ) versus comma ( , ) comments above relate to different localities choice of symbol to use as the decimal point. In the USA and Canada, the decimal point is a period and the thousands / millions / billions separator is the comma:

13,487,293.17 "Thirteen billion, four hundred eighty-seven million, two hundred ninety-three and seventeen hundredths"


In some other parts of the world those symbols are reversed.

13.487.293,17


The International SI standard says to use a single blank as the thousands / millions / billions separators, and then either period or comma as the decimal point.

13 487 293.17

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#7 - 2012-05-26 00:21:39 UTC
You can't select the order you buy from or sell to. It's always the oldest modified best price order. You can try to select a different order, but that will only increase the price you pay or lower the price you get, it does not change which order you actually buy from or sell to.
So by adding 0.01 ISK to the price of a buy order, that doesn't just make it LOOK like a larger number, it MAKES it a larger number, and thus they get the trades at that location before anybody else with lower buy orders.

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Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#8 - 2012-05-26 00:56:47 UTC
MailDeadDrop wrote:

The International SI standard says to use a single blank as the thousands / millions / billions separators, and then either period or comma as the decimal point.

13 487 293.17


The international SI folks are idiots, mired in the days of print media as using spaces for the separator makes it hellish to figure out where a currency amount starts/ends.

Especially if it gets written as I have 13 487 293.17 Noctis for sale. Is that (13) Noctis for 487293.17 each? Or is the price 13487293.17?
Wylenith
Joe's Towing - You Smash It We Trash It
#9 - 2012-05-26 06:22:16 UTC
Akita T wrote:

So by adding 0.01 ISK to the price of a buy order, that doesn't just make it LOOK like a larger number, it MAKES it a larger number.


Ladies and gentlemen, Admiral Obvious checking in. Lol

Sorry, couldn't resist.
MailDeadDrop
Archon Industries
#10 - 2012-05-26 22:33:31 UTC
Scrapyard Bob wrote:
MailDeadDrop wrote:

The International SI standard says to use a single blank as the thousands / millions / billions separators, and then either period or comma as the decimal point.

13 487 293.17


The international SI folks are idiots, mired in the days of print media as using spaces for the separator makes it hellish to figure out where a currency amount starts/ends.

Especially if it gets written as I have 13 487 293.17 Noctis for sale. Is that (13) Noctis for 487293.17 each? Or is the price 13487293.17?

While I won't dispute that the SI folks may be idiots, one would assume that to avoid the above situation one would include a leading currency indicator like:

" I have ISK 13 487 293.17 Noctis for sale"

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Johnny Frecko
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-05-27 12:56:24 UTC
I'm just going to assume people don't know proper syntax.

because it should be in any way
"I have A noctis(singular) FOR X ISK"

You must note the quantitiy in the plural or singular form and state for how much the trade will be.

Saying "i have noctis 13,353,535,12" doesn't mean anything to me with or without decimals or spaces.

So yes, if you remove all sentence structure it is impossible to know what you mean.
Kara Books
Deal with IT.
#12 - 2012-05-27 20:18:40 UTC
I still dont... understand... why I... read all the way to the end and still not understand what I just read.