Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I find the feature to be highly usefull when moving things.. Yes, it's not exactly accurate, but it's not meant to be, it's an estimated price. It gives me a good ballpark figure of what something is worth, for some items, the price will be quite 'out of whack' probably due to small amounts being sold or manipulations going on. For Bulk items, it's a very accurate estimate and gives you a good idea what price to look for to sell it.

That would be dumb. While a huge portion of all sales go on in jita and jita has become the player designated main trade hub, CCP has never influenced what systems are trade hubs. Hardcoding in jita as what items is worth means that if we as players ever want to no longer use jita then CCP have wasted their time.

If the estimated value thing wants to be misleading, then let it. Maybe it'll bait some noobs into make a mistake. We didn't need it before, we'll get along just fine ignoring it.

The other day it told me a ~60k piece of loot was worth over a mil. I wish I was making that up. I agree. They should either fix it or get rid of it. The "lowest price in the region" section of the market is almost always wrong too.

It has just told you that somewhere in EvE that item is or has recently been sold for a significantly higher value than normal (whether thru manipulation or a successful scam, or a simple error)... and you want to throw that information away as broken. It's good information to know, potentially something you could cash in on (or get ripped off by). You are simply misunderstanding what the information represents.

That piece of 'information' isn't actually information. Its a datum which is of little value absent other information which you probably won't have - Like where that inflated price was paid. In short, it's not data; it's an anecdote.

I find the estimated price feature very useful. If I'm hauling loot, I can check its local market value compared to the estimated price to determine whether or not I sell, reprocess for ore, or take it somewhere else if I can be bothered.

You're complaining how an estimated price of an item is not an accurate price based on what you determine to be the accurate price?

An estimate is simply a generalized value based on, in this case the price of an item over a period of time and throughout the Eve universe. It should be used to only give you a general idea of an items value, which is exactly what it was intended to be. New players can easily see that an an item they just looted is worth far more isk then what it is currently being bought for in their region, and helps players who do not use 3rd party tools know what the over all value of an item has been on average though the universe, not just their region or just Jita..




You cannot simply ignore the number in the bottom right corner? Does this value being displayed somehow directly affect you're ability to play the game or cause additional steps for you?



That would be just silly and would make the feature completely useless. The point of the estimated price is so players know what other players have been overall buying or selling the item at over time. Showing prices based on region/system would give far more inaccurate results then the current system. That and you know, if you want to view the regional price just right click > view market data.

I'm guessing this is less of a "This game mechanic is broken and stupid and smells bad" and more about how you're pissed that players are now going out of the regions of space you have buy orders setup for considerably less then the average market value and are unwilling to adapt to how players who are now more informed about the value of the items they are selling.

If you don't like it you know you could always just like, I dunno, ignore it. And then the people who do seem to like it could not ignore it.

You didn't read the thread. We can all tell.