A Thought on the Forthcoming Live Letter QA

[drchesed]

I've noticed there's a different type of blight on the marketboards aside from straight crafting bots, and that's undercut bots who make it extremely difficult to sell anything when they're basically constantly cycling through their stock and undercutting by one gil whenever someone tries to sell lower then them.

I can understand why a large amount of Cactaur's crafters seem to have backed out of the DoW/L gear market when these individuals are making it such a hassle to sell anything...

Tbf, and this will definitely not be a popular thing to say, I will admit to undercutting by 1 gil all the time. And given my personal situation, I tend to be on throughout the day and night, and can update fairly frequently (while I'm playing). I actually get annoyed by people undercutting by more, because it just drives the potential revenue down much faster.

However, I understand that if someone doesn't have as much time as me, the idea of undercutting by 1k, 10k or 50k makes sense if it's an effort to stop someone from selling lower than they feel comfortable with.

As for bots doing that... well, it certainly feels that way with the amount of time I spend checking the boards only to see that I'm being undercutted again. But my first thought is that someone else doesn't have a life just like me. =P