To Sell or Not to Sell - Development Log #348

[nicknack]

Michi explains the reasoning for (not) adding buying and sellng ads to the local markets and Nick talks pricing page changes on the website.

You can find the full issue of the development log here: link

[jelutz77]

The way I see it, currently the custom contracts are private only. If we want the earliest available player to take a contract, the LM or CX is the best option.And CX’s where they are, are the best way to buy and sell. Currently if we have a private deal, we can also arrange for a private contract to transfer goods on a station.

[lowstrife]

…at least one culprit: The accounting system, which keeps every single booking for the past ten weeks before finally discarding them. For big companies those can be many thousands, and they keep adding up.

I alluded to this when NOTIG was implemented.

Release Notes - Maintenance 2022.02

Side thought here: With the coming changes to notifications, and the ability to disable production notifications… I don’t know how many IOPS to the database production orders cause relative to the entire game. It’s probably a lot, and I would expect this number to go up potentially by as much as an order of magnitude. Most people run huge production orders to cut down on notifications. I personally commonly target an overall time in the 2-4 day range, with quantities of 5-20x. But - now that w…

As for the discussion about local markets, CX’s, a-fabs.

Currently, people place bids. Only the endgame rich players have this problem as many other markets are pretty liquid at the moment and the only supply shortages are minor.

People also used to place 1ncc bids as a signal of intent to buy for a market. And to know who to contact.

But furthermore, people use the UFO discord if they need to do a large deal or find a supplier for some weird item. The problem with leaving notes on the CX trading pair is unless you make it global, all notes hit all CX’s, it isn’t really in a centralized place.

I don’t think the ability to leave notes solves any problems. It just creates a system which doesn’t scale up and requires people to look in more places to find what they need.