| Borgqueen | Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 05:20 pm 
When we take a look at our Corporation 'Hereford Factory Maintenance' of our Enterprise 'Trading Submatrix 001' in our country of 'Unimatrix 002' on White Giant and take a look at the recent sales it states 3 sales in the month of Oct 4337.
Those sales include all the production from the recent month and it states the price at Quality 100 is 595827 and we received a price of 1.17M at the quality of 197.
It seems like we received the base-price multiplied with 1.97 for quality, which is confirmed by the Products Sold in the Profit&Loss part of the Corporation Page.
The only problem with this is that the Trade Strategies of said Corporation is set to start offering with Quality+100. So as it sold all the production of that month it should have received a price of 1.7M per Unit sold.
So my question: Are the price strategies disabled or bugged? |
| johnV | Friday, May 15, 2020 - 02:53 pm
A while ago we had a discussion about this and I tested a few products.
As the price approached the max price the sale + strategy stopped, which is what I thought you are seeing. When the price was closer to the base they worked.
I just looked at a few products whose price is close to the min and recent sales are market + quality % without applying my sale strategy.
At some point sale strategy stopped working. |
| Andy | Friday, May 15, 2020 - 03:11 pm
The sale strategy works fine when the trader job can find a match and make a sale or a purchase.
when you get closer to the limits, the trader runs into difficulties in finding a match.
this is when compromise strategies are used to make a market.
these strategies become more aggressive if the product offered or requested is waiting longer on the market.
many times, when there is no match, nothing happens and the product will remain sitting there waiting which looks like the strategy stopped working.
In the real market, traders are forced, under some conditions to "make a market" and trade themselves.
In Simcountry, the trader job never trades for itself. |
| Borgqueen | Friday, May 15, 2020 - 03:42 pm
Sorry Andy but what do you mean with 'make a market'?
My trade strategies are intended to ask for a higher price
and not sell at quality price, especially when it is at a higher price as that also means there is more demand then there is supply.
Why does it sell my products the same month it is produced and only at quality price?
How many percentage above quality doesn't it sell it the same month? |
| Andy | Friday, May 15, 2020 - 04:13 pm
It depends on the products requested.
you always sell to someone, not to Simcountry.
we do not buy these products, players do, if they want to.
If you ask for a price they do not want to pay, nothing happens.
what really happens depends on the specific offers and request at any given moment.
Trading in each product happens up to 40 or even 50 times every day.
whatever is on offer or requested at the moment of trading, is collected and the "trader" tries to match them. These could be hundreds or thousands of offers and requests with different qualities and requested prices.
The trader does the easy part first, the ones that match, then starts to shift a bit and trades more and then it gets stuck. |
| John Galt | Saturday, May 16, 2020 - 01:13 am
Trade strategies are broken. I have tested this extensively. It is nothing to do with the maximum quality price cap either, as I tested that too. They just don't work likely because most countries are C3s, and C3s always order best price. They won't pay above market price. Most players won't, which is why you will never sell above market price. |
