Macros on online marketplace
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I would love for someone credible with SDS to answer if running macro programs on the market is allowed? One way or another it’s happening..
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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.
