Player Features and Ideas Discussion

NOTE : The aim of this skill isnt to enable market botting, i feel that whenever i have open market orders, the game is on hold. Like skill training in a way, i have no qualms with having the game play itself while i am away to buy/sell items that i list on the market.

New skill allowing for a degree of automated buy/sell order updates.

The skill will automatically schedule an update on a buy/sell order to beat the current market leader within your order range at that particular moment.

I envisage the duration between updates to be dictated by the skill level trained.

When setting a buy or sell, you would do the following things

1. Set the range and duration of the order (like a normal order)
2. Set the initial price of the order (again, like a normal order)
3. Set increment you wish the order to be updated by
4. (optional) Set the upper/lower limit that you wish your market order to be updated to over time (to avoid orders competing each other to death or avoiding possible market scams, etc)

Thinking about what timescale these automatic orders should be updated on, i settled on the below;

Skill lvl 1 - 48 hours (also the alternative skill to add 3 automatic orders per skill level)
Skill lvl 2 - 24 hours
Skill lvl 3 - 12 hours
Skill lvl 4 - 6 hours
Skill lvl 5 - 3 hours

NOTE : there is also the possibility of having a companion skillbook that dictates how many automated orders you can have active at any particular moment.

Both skills could be titled 'Automated Market _______ '

With the skill regarding number of automatic updating orders to be named 'Management' and the skill regarding time between updates as 'Efficiency'

I also envisage these skills to be high level trade skills, needing SP investment on par with say, Battlecruisers or Battleships.

You could say the same thing about ships and their fittings, people dont seem to mind that there are other people out there with better ships than them.

Also, i envisage a byproduct of this to be buy and sell orders being pushed closer together, which is healthy, as well as it ironing out the 'weekend effect' levelling prices across the week and timezones.

Also, people like new skillbooks

Well, my initial thinking was spurred on by the Stock Exchanges IRL

They are all automated to an extent, working from rules given by human operators

I didnt think it would be a big leap to give capsuleers a measure of this power in the market

There is nothing exciting about putting a market order up and it being beaten within 5 mins with the added knowlege that unless you babysit that hourly, it isnt getting anything.

This game shouldnt be about babysitting spreadsheets, people do that enough in their real jobs. This game should be more about flying spaceships, this is why i feel a limited level of automation should be available for those in game.