Undercutting

[MilkieTea]

I read it just fine - it seems you don't understand either.

So, let me explain.

Crystals are selling for 100 gil each. There is a buy order for crystals for 80 gil each.

Mr. Undercutter wants to sell his crystals for 50 gil each. But when he goes to list, instead of creating a listing of crystals for sale at 50 gil each, the buy orders for 80 gil each are automatically filled.

Creating a buy order for 1 gil each does nothing. If there's only buy orders for 1 gil, than Mr. Undercutter's crystals would be listed for 50 gil.

That's not what they're saying though. Reread it, carefully. The way they're phrasing things implies that the system is not opt in, but rather forced. I understand what you are saying.

If person "A" sells Crystals for 50 gil, let's call him Mr. Normal just because. If Mr. Normal puts up Crystals for 50 gil, he's golden. So far, he's not doing anything wrong if crystals are going for roughly 50 gil anyways. He's not affected by what comes next, since his were put up before.

Someone could, then, put up a buy order for 500 gil, and because no one can undercut him, someone could effectively control the market with one alt. The only effective way of doing such a system would make it so that the system is opt in, and not forced.

I don't like massive undercutters, but I also don't appreciate people effectively holding a market hostage to the highest bidder.