Macros on online marketplace
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Not only happening, there is a pandemic of bots on the market. I work in the web transaction business, and we have entire teams whose jobs it is to block these types of bots (and the IP's they are originating from) from overloading our servers, especially during high volume peak times. I just do not understand why it is allowed.
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How are you all sure it’s bots? First couple months of the game has always been a very active community market. I’ve gotten all the commons through golds by putting in sell now orders. Bots didn’t prevent me from getting these cards. I think it’s just a large player base right now is all.
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Not only happening, there is a pandemic of bots on the market. I work in the web transaction business, and we have entire teams whose jobs it is to block these types of bots (and the IP's they are originating from) from overloading our servers, especially during high volume peak times. I just do not understand why it is allowed.
I know from my own program that SDS has throttling on. I had to introduce a built in delay to all of my API calls to make sure my program was not throttled when pulling card data.
Whether that can be circumvented or not for bots to be effective I have no idea.
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@The412Smoke_XBL selling to sell a card and undercutting the current price by 10 stubs and instantly being undercut by 1 stub with 4 order instantly. I have clip proof of multiple cards of multiple occasions it cannot just be coincidence. Videos of macro programs on twitter this morning on confirmed it.
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How are you all sure it’s bots? First couple months of the game has always been a very active community market. I’ve gotten all the commons through golds by putting in sell now orders. Bots didn’t prevent me from getting these cards. I think it’s just a large player base right now is all.
Those of us who work the market know what we are seeing is not human activity.
I mean, sure it could be people but seems awfully improbable that a human has undercut by 1 stub instantly after screen refresh from submitting an order. If it happened occasionally then I could chalk it up to human behavior but this occurs wayyyyyy too frequently for me to believe it is humans.
Fyi, when there were more users with the game on Xbox gamepass this behavior wasn't occurring. The market flowed so well during that time so I don't buy the "more users" argument either.
Aristotle's improbable possibility comes to mind here lol
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@Pigsooie-Nation_MLBTS happening to me a lot feel like there are bots put out there to limit stub making by sds because u can put a limit on investments and other stub making methods but the market is a truely endless stub making method so these bots are put in there to limit this
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Also FWIW, I’ve finished collections NMS since 22 within a few weeks of release and idk it def feels harder so far.
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Also FWIW, I’ve finished collections NMS since 22 within a few weeks of release and idk it def feels harder so far.
Last year was my longest at 3 weeks (normally 10-14 days) and it was a big struggle. Had to rely on big pack luck. This year? Maybe June if I'm lucky.
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@The412Smoke_XBL selling to sell a card and undercutting the current price by 10 stubs and instantly being undercut by 1 stub with 4 order instantly. I have clip proof of multiple cards of multiple occasions it cannot just be coincidence. Videos of macro programs on twitter this morning on confirmed it.
I guess the reason I think it could just be coincidence is that there are literally hundreds of thousands of people playing this game at the same time. We’re all buying & selling so it’s really not that unlikely that multiple people are buying/selling the same 1 out of 750 cards at the same time. Mathematically it’s actually highly likely.
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yes 100% botting and macros are being used this year the better flips at the moment your attempting always have a automatic one stub out bid quicker then anybody on phone or console could make even if you spam orders at random numbers they outbid you by 1 until there is no profit… seems fair good job san diego!!! game is already boring enough with how annoying pitching is right now
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@Pigsooie-Nation_MLBTS how just how within a couple weeks please share. I already got Pujols just off insane pulls and I’m itching for tulo.
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I was attempting to flip some diamond equipment last week when I noticed bots underbidding my sell orders. You could tell it was bot because I would set bids to take a loss on the highest buy bid and would be undercut instantly with two bids for one stub below my bid. I then just reset my bids to a higher figure. A human would be monitoring and would follow suit to make a profit. The bots don't seem to work in reverse so they will take a loss and your bid will go through eventually. I just list and forget or rebid the next day.
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@theBlindRhino_PSN is diamond equipment the way to go for stub making. I have never stumbled into this I’ve only ever tried with silver live series. Mainly because it moves the fastest on the market what’s ur strategy on diamond equipment?
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Live series is probably better, when the bots don't own everything there's plenty of places to make stubs.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Depends on my balance really. At first I flip bronze LS cards because they move fast but once my balance of stubs is around 500k or more it becomes easier just to put in bids in the AM on diamond equipment and get more stubs per flip. I shoot for 1000 profit and up.
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@theBlindRhino_PSN I will definitely try this I just don’t wanna risk a ban for flipping bronzes to much. what is a good margin to look for on the bronzes?
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@theBlindRhino_PSN I will definitely try this I just don’t wanna risk a ban for flipping bronzes to much. what is a good margin to look for on the bronzes?
Honestly I am getting 11 stubs per flip.
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@theBlindRhino_PSN ok I’m 100% trying this. I may just wait and see if bans are getting handed out for flipping first. Maybe a stupid question but roughly how long does 500k take? cause that pretty much gets me tulo nms.
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500000 / 11 =45,454.545 flips
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@theBlindRhino_PSN further away then I thought from tulo…
