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I don't know if any of you do this or have done this or even knew this happened. It happened to me today, an I'll be honest, I was pleasantly surprised. I sold someone a Ikky B Club, and part of the deal was helping my buyer find another item. Didn't see any harm in it, so about 30 minutes later I saw one flash in EC, I contacted both the seller and the buyer, arranged a meet, and in a flash I had helped 2 people get what they wanted. The buyer tipped me 100pp!
I was floored. I hadn't really thought about that being a relatively low risk yet somewhat lucrative thing. Granted it was a simple donation (a most appreciated one!) but I was just wondering if this kinda thing happens a lot? Akkarin | ||
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A lot of people spend a lot of their time in EC. Their activities range from market speculation to casinos. If you can find a niche for your services, and there are a lot of people who would rather fight monsters, have fun and make your fortune doing it!
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Add in the use of that auction tracker and the EC forum here, and there's a lot of potential ways to source items for people - good luck with it, I wish I had the time and patience I'd love to give that kind of thing a try [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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The hardcores also do stock-like analysis of the prices of goods, forecast change in price based on known upcoming changed/nerfs to items, generate supply/demand curves, collude with other major hardcores to price fix, etc. | |||
Last edited by username1337; 03-02-2012 at 09:56 AM..
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With the simplicity of writing mouse/keyboard input bot programs, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the hardcores were entirely automated and responding to parses of the log file. The only minor complications are implementing intelligent enough NLP algorithms to handle players sending tells trying to buy a good and being able to recognize what they're interested in and how much they're offering (and generating appropriate responses) and then implementing a character recognition from image algorithm to handle decisions on where to click the mouse based on this information. Quite an interesting machine learning application.
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Last edited by username1337; 03-02-2012 at 10:04 AM..
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While parsing the text is easy (my auction tracker does it from the log files to add the item links - the wiki one does it to pull prices related to items) having an image algorithm as you mentioned sounds like it would be nearly impossible to write since some items share the same icons when put in trade windows - although someone writing those "easy" mouse/keyboard input programs to detect where to click on the screen could probably just mouse over the icon area, run OCR over the item hover tip and approve/deny the trade based on what else is in the window, amirite? Edit: A simple implementation to avoid having to stare at the screen however would be to turn on /log and have something (grep) parse for messages to you and when encountered send off an alert via text, IM or email - although repeating your /auc would require external macroing which is illegal in p99 tos.
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Realtime auction logger: http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/
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Last edited by tristantio; 03-02-2012 at 03:00 PM..
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I log on my mule when I can't give the PC 100% of my attention. I hit the WTB macro button in the UI every so often. If I see an item I want/need or an item that is a blow out price, I'll scoop it up. Simple as that, really.
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