Im wondering why theres 100 order limit. I know that database grow large in such projects as NW but market is easily manipulated and does not reflect reality and real demand / supply / production / gathering.
Me and my friends are always on 100 limit and wont sell much cheaper items like a lot of food ingredients or other cheap ingredniets, also medicore weapons/ armors. This will cause in higher price of very cheap and less popular products(e.g. wood/skin etc will always have good price, but food ingredients no because there are too many of them).
I have a lot of things that i would like to sell but i will list only these most expensive.
This creates a big gap that players with high amount of gold will abuse.
E.g. There are few sell orders of milk (buy orders doesnt matter that much as this will not represent current amount of selected good on the world).
This milk is listed between 1-6 gold each lets say 1000 units. This is abused by some players that will buy whole market of milk and list it much higher.
Ofc most players wouldnt buy it but some not aware would.
Is this price and volume reflecting players stock and production? Ofc not.
Producers wont buy this, so this is just dead part of the market that serves no purpose.
Players mostly wont place sell order of their milk as there are only 100 orders and they mostly will have much more expensive stuff to sell.
I wont describe it further as its is very simple and known problem.
Solution would be to increase orders limit. By what number? Dont know, further analysis is needed to look at number of different items that can be collected by the players and volume of these things.
My suggestion would be to simply stay at 100 orders and give new trade skill called Trade that will increase this 1 order per lvl => 100 basic + 200 from Trade Skill = 300. Maybe aptitude for this skill should also increase order limit by 1? dont know. But i know that 100 is very limiting and every person that i asked about this agreed with this statement.
Its a good thing to avoid market dominance of rich players. If you have no order limit, you can just monopolize everything, if you just invest enough time.
We already have so much flipping, I think, this could be way more annoying without this limit.
Thats it. Noone will list e.g. milk. because there is low order limit. So flippers have to buy 1000 milk to buy whole market. But players have in their stashes a lot of milk e.g. 10k. 10k of milk is much harder to buy. Also when flipper will buy whole market few moments later someone will list next cheaper order with milk.
It can be connected with any item.
I would say to you flipper gona flip anyway, but when volume is bigger its much harder for them.
E.g. i would never list milk for now as im always at order cap. It means someone can manipulate to rise price of a milk by buying whole volume, but i will be not able to put normal order up that i know it would sell. because i have e.g. 1000 milk for 1gold per unit.
I dont think, that a lot of players hit the 100 order limit. I dont sell my milk, because its not worth the effort…
Its quite time consuming, to list small stuff and re-list it, if its not sold.
I think, this is just a problem for players, that could have an great impact on the market. And thats limited atm.
Im not telling to flip entire market. You can easily focus on one item and flip it by buying whole volume.
Im telling that a lot of players that im talking to have already reached cap, so e.g. this milk from stash does not exist for market. Even if i have about 1k in.
And crating order of 1k milk, 1gold per each would sti be good order as it would take about minute to create.
How many different items do you have in stash that you are not using and not planning to use?
Noo e is forcing tou to sell these not used items, but some players would like to and are not able, because they need to manage limit.
I trashed countless numbers of medicore gear 300-500 per piece because i reached limit.
Im playing on fresh start server and I can see that market is mising a lot of volume in goods and a lot of volume in items.
People not only selling thing in chat to pay no tax, but also to avoid order limit.
This is my and players that i have contact with perspective.
As the state of the game market should be as free as it is possible, because we dont want some marxist regulations. Main problem are bots but market shouldnt be limited because of them. AGS should handle bot another way.
I am also at the order limit constantly, at least half of it is taken up with gear that I find dropped out in the wild that I believe have decent enough perks to make a few hundred gold on. Other things that take up the rest of the space is furnishing items that only can be sold in stacks of 1-5 as well. I have also heard a couple of my friends say the same thing like, shit I have so many more things I don’t want to salvage or drop on the ground, but I can’t list anything more!