How is the Community Market feeling?
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@Manu__SDS_MLBTS not good at all... im getting restricted for buying and selling cards on this app, meanwhile there are people on here ordering 20 at a time, clearly to flip cards for profit (which i have no issue with, its fun and part of the game) but how can you restrict certain people when there is nothing more than using the app you provided to buy and sell?? No bots, software, anything at all. Its not fair the way you have people that find loop holes with multiple stub mule accounts, fake accounts, bots, etc & then you have people like me & im sure the majority of players who want to be able to compete in a competitive market place and buy and sell cads as well, who are getting restricted randomly for buying or selling to fast??? Doesn't make any sense! So we should buy and sell slower & worry about that as well as being undercut every second when trying to buy or sell cards?? I hope you fix this issue & just remove actual people using software or duplicate accounts or even make it so you can only own 15 of a card or something.... but this is just not right.
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So…I think the last several hours on the market place have been great. Easily the best it’s been all year. The limited amount of transactions on the app is kinda weird but I’d rather be making a couple of orders successfully instead of dozens in hopes of beating bots. I’d much rather be playing the baseball part of the game instead of the market to get stubs for cards and today is the first time I can realistically see how making a few strategic orders here and there can allow for that. I think all the bots have made a lot of people here borderline insane and thet any haters of these new limitations/restrictions will come around. I’m happy to say for the first time this year that I’m not pissed with sds. Today… thanks and good job!
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@NoLimitSnakes_PSN
The restriction notice is temporary. But right now there are no bots for longer than ever before. This is a win. I don’t mind if my orders take 3x as long. -
I still show the restriction notice on the companion app. I trade bronze and commons. I buy them at quick sell value and then resell them. No automation or bots. The way I trade doesn't have any affect on the market. Not sure why the restriction doesn't go away.
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Thanks guys, I had the account restricted pop up this afternoon after a few orders, and thanks to these comments I checked and it is working again.
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Bridge-Piece_XBL that's good to know. N ya thats definitely a win, it just sucks when im selling my duplicate jerseys or cards & my account gets restricted (temporarily even). But ya hopefully they can figure this out & keep the bots away for good! And as long as we're (people not using bots) not getting banned or restricted for any period of time I guess its ok. Thanks for the feedback, I didnt realize at the time it was so temporary
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@NoLimitSnakes_PSN yeah its good until you get a restriction through not doing anything wrong. No access now for 4 days to companion app
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Best I’ve seen in a long time. Good job!
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There’s definitely some bots back. They don’t react as quickly and are clearly slowed down to avoid restriction pauses. Same behavior with outbidding/undercutting then deleting their bids if you delete yours. I have only noticed them on a few items today. I have not noticed any items that had 100s of buy/sells a minute since Saturday. Clearly a result of limiting bids over time - bravo. Even the greediest of flippers should be able to still accomplish their goals with the limits now in place - as long as there is no competing with bots. This weekend definetly showed there is enough of everything on the marketplace to go around when the bots aren’t sucking everything up. The restriction timeout was a big blow to the bots but you gotta tighten the noose and keep up the fight! Perhaps the next step would be some kind of throttle for the amount of bids for specific items over time. Whatever the next step is, I’m going to get back to playing the game and leave that stuff to you. You can do it!
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@Oliver230230230_PSN 100% agree! The only way they could be even close to as fast would be with the app & even then no. But with the app restricting accounts used by "real human players" that cant be possible anymore or they would be bring restricted too.. the bots were gone for all of 2 days.... really great. Now they have a huge advantage over everyone... even more than before
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@NoLimitSnakes_PSN The timeout's effect the Bots also, but as stated in another thread, the people who program the bots, just add a timer between transactions to get around the limits.
It is a game of whack-a-mole, that will be never ending as long as there are people willing pay for the bots and the market is accessible via the app.
Psy
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Kill the transactions on everything but the console. It’s time.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN I agree.
Psy
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@LadySwampfox_XBL I’m not but it’s ridiculously easy to code around. Let’s say if you place over 10 orders every minute you get temporarily market limited. They can just set the bot to place only 9 orders per minute. So will this slow down bots? Yes, but they will still work 100%
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Which is exactly why they need to just kill all non console transactions. Yes it stinks for the honest players but much like the world we live in the scum bags ruin it for everyone else.
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@Manu__SDS_MLBTS Seeing what might be bot activity on supercharged cards right now, like LS Miguel Vargas. Same activity as before, when they cancel and repost orders at ridiculous speed as soon as you place or cancel one. I could be wrong, it could be multiple people on this card at once.
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It’s likely bots as the generous margins have dried up significantly over the past day or so.
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@Manu__SDS_MLBTS it’s time to turn off transactions on the app. The bots will always find workaround to the improvements and they seem to know the end is coming so it’s getting worse and worse after each workaround is configured. Console market place is tedious but the bots are on verge of killing the game
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I feel like at this point we will know if SDS is behind a lot of the bots based on if they kill the mobile marketplace or not. If they don’t kill it, they intend to keep it as their way to control players profiting from it.
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@General_Heaux_PSN I agree. The bots are out of control and if marketplace transactions are turned off on the app and website things will improve drastically.
