Market Chart Scaling
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Topic: Market Chart Scaling
Posted By: Salararius
Subject: Market Chart Scaling
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2012 at 15:11
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Can someone comment on how this chart is supposed to help us determine the current market price (let alone the difference between the average buy and sell) of the goods?  There is a nice zoom function. If I use it I see this:  How does that help me see the current price or evaluate the data? How many people feel that once a market has experienced some wild price swings these charts stop delivering a lot of the value they could simply because of the scaling? |
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2012 at 16:09
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This has always been a problem with the market costs, especially because of self-dealing intended to juice trade scores. (Where players sell their alt something for a million gold.) I suggested in another thread that the math used to create the charts should basically drop the wild data more than 2.5 or 3 standard deviations from the mean, so the charts would be usable again. Didn't get a lot of enthusiasm from the devs for it then. But I don't mind, because it just reinforces the overall uselessness of the markets in this game.
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Posted By: Thes Hunter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2012 at 02:20
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I find having Market Ledger researched helps clarify these types of situations, since one can look at the actual transactions. ------------- The image in my avatar is a chalk pastel drawing I did as part of the Imagine Yellowstone Art competition. 
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