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Competing against a bot
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Brent Goode RJ: BB Goode CO: BB Goode Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 506 Karma: 180 Joined: Apr 5, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 23, 2012 Geez...and it is still only June. Not even a full three weeks since the reset. I really feel sorry for someone coming in three months from now.
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Michael Tsui RJ: Reisen CO: Reisen Udongein Inaba Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 45 Karma: 30 Joined: Apr 26, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 23, 2012 Hear Him!
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A J RJ: amanbearpig CO: aManBearPig Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 54 Karma: 18 Joined: Mar 30, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 23, 2012 Is Scott around and reading the boards?
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Michael Tsui RJ: Reisen CO: Reisen Udongein Inaba Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 45 Karma: 30 Joined: Apr 26, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 24, 2012 If scott is never around, does not feel confident facing the truth, and/or torn between his loyalties to favorites like BallC and the swelling mob calling for his lynching, he must hire a PR officer to act as his mouth.More importantly, hear your customers, and try to make everyone does not look like ranting for the sake of ranting. |
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Brent Goode RJ: BB Goode CO: BB Goode Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 506 Karma: 180 Joined: Apr 5, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 24, 2012 Is it just me, or did the "Active Players" number come off the home page? Have we shrunk that much?
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Bob Malone RJ: Bob Malone CO: Malone Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 341 Karma: 191 Joined: Apr 17, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 24, 2012 still display on ratjoy : Beta v0.53 Current Active Users: 197 |
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Jayle Trigger RJ: Berry Punch CO: Applejack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 93 Karma: 85 Joined: Apr 9, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 At this point, NPC bots that fill in B2B niches would be great, heck if I'm gonna buy glass bottles at extortionist or inflated import prices...
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Moe Jack RJ: Moejack CO: Moe Jack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 128 Karma: 74 Joined: Apr 7, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 I vote against NPC bots for the B2B. Scott needs to make the B2B actually work for humans.
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Jayle Trigger RJ: Berry Punch CO: Applejack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 93 Karma: 85 Joined: Apr 9, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 You mean for it to work for Sellers right? Buyers are getting shafted if they don't go in-house. I run an Apple farm, ain't nothing but Apples and Apple products made here... and it'll be over my stinking corpse if'n somepony is gonna turn Sweet Apple Acres to something else it ain't. |
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Moe Jack RJ: Moejack CO: Moe Jack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 128 Karma: 74 Joined: Apr 7, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 How are buyers shafted if they don't go in-house? For products with multiple stages of production you want to be able to produce the most value added products as you can for retail sale, right? at some point the cost of using two factory spots for mines rather than smelters/jewelry factories slows down the operations.
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Moe Jack RJ: Moejack CO: Moe Jack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 128 Karma: 74 Joined: Apr 7, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 The high B2B pricing is really a market failure. Until the B2B is even remotely as lucrative as retail, few people will be crazy enough to try to focus on B2B (the land segmentation doesn't help either). I think there should be a sales tax applied to retail sales. |
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Brent Goode RJ: BB Goode CO: BB Goode Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 506 Karma: 180 Joined: Apr 5, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 25, 2012 I think there should be a income tax applied to salaries and bonuses.Some B2B should be more profitable if there were no retail at all. Why is there a retail market for Steel, Titanium, or Titanium Alloy? When is the last time you saw bars of those items at Home Depot? We don't have Tools or Chain-link Fences. but we have rolls of Carbon Fiber. If certain building resources were B2B/Export only, they could be very lucrative. I also think we miss the boat on the Export markets. In RL, one of the reasons things are imported in the US, is that everything is exported for higher profits. We import lumber from Canada, because we ship so much to Japan at higher prices. We ship high quality electronics to Europe, and import cheap Chinese junk. The money is in the export of quality goods. As usual, the game gets manipulated to force things into certain channels. If Import/Export was set correctly, production qualities were controllable by the player with attached prorating of prices, and a better research tree was developed, this thing could really zoom, with players having a genuine myriad of choices in strategies to employ that would be profitable, and tons of niches that could be filled. Of course, you still have to get rid of the bots. Cheating is cheating, no matter how great the game platform is. And they will ruin the best laid plans of rats and men. |
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Kabal RJ: Kabal CO: Kabal Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Joined: Apr 11, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 26, 2012 b2b prices are sometimes (on some products most of the times) ridiculous.most of the times i rather take my time to produce in-house or even import than buy on b2b.multiplayer game or not i'm not here to throw millions at people expecting to make 50x out of a $1 product. exports should be again quality related: what's the point on researching something if i can export Q0 products at the same price of Q50? |
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Moe Jack RJ: Moejack CO: Moe Jack Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 128 Karma: 74 Joined: Apr 7, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 26, 2012 exports are q related, but it would be nice if there was some correspondence between supply and demand on there. I also don't understand at all why even bother having multiple countries with different prices that change once a day. No one would ever buy or sell to the less profitable country.
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Kabal RJ: Kabal CO: Kabal Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Joined: Apr 11, 2012 |
Posted on Jun 26, 2012 i'm under the impression that with new server q adjusted price dropped quite a bit on exports,but that might just be me,anyway in my opinion there isn't enough difference between low quality and high quality prices.in fact,as someone else already pointed out,investing a lot on research might not be rewarding as it should on both export and b2b. |
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