How and why bots work...
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by OLloyd
Hey guys, I have gotten a lot of questions about bot's lately and wanted to explain it better so I sat down with my staff and we wrote this comprehensive article. I first want to introduce you to Ingred, my researcher.
She combed threw the database and she sent Jill and her team out into the geek community to dig up all the important explainations.
When they came back they gave that information to our top writer, Megan who took all their research and converted it into a form of language most of you folks can understand... 
And here is the verdict:
Basically, the admins run bots buying up goods on the market. They don't run all the time but they do run, and we have noticed them buying more when quantities listed are high in a catagory. We am not sure what their bots buy prices are, however I do know that for Q1 food the price sits between $0.76-$0.80. Admin bots have been around for a long time, they screw up the economics of the game, as you can see. Since a bot is just a program, we figure the program is written to look at how many of each product is listed on the market, if there are more than X of that product, then the bot starts buying in it's buy range in that catagory, but the buy range doesn't allow for the bot to buy the cheap stuff first. We ran the numbers and it looks like there are fewer Q3 and up (food and weapons) listed on the market than the Q1. And since the Admins are so smart, all the quantities for each catagory is the same, so the country would have to have too much listed in the catagory that you want bought up by the bot before the bot would even start working. And with import/export taxes high in most countries, the markets are not running as they originally were intended to run.
I hope that explains bots well enough...
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Not saying your wrong, but evidence?
Since admins do not talk to anyone in the game, all claims are anecdotal. However, I am a computer guy who owns and operates his own computer business and the descriptions of how bots work are all accurate. That is why we mostly gave information about how the bot works and not the exact specifics. I have played a number of mmorpg's and after paying attention to all the circumstances to all the activity of the market it is a STRONG possibility that a bot is working the market. And I have collected that anecdotal evidence from multiple individuals in several different alliances and MU's, not to mention the profit in my ebank account...Just try listing 10-Q1 food for $0.80 each and see when it sells and how many are selling cheaper than you when you sold them...
The bots also buy across all international markets at the same time. Its a varying quantity purchased, and i haven't pinned down if its a random % or a # yet. It seems to vary depending on the quantity listed for sale.
As simple of a program most bots are, I would guess it is a % based on how much is listed on the market to prevent flooding and to encourage everyone to produce product. Which would get people to spend gold on companies...And that bot is probably only updated or changed with each "update" and not maintained on a daily basis. And the bot is probably independent to each country.
I can cofirm these bot are around, i noticed the suggested price of my q1 food was 0.8 so i listed it at that, it sold within 10 minutes. I then upgraded my town center and needed more food and noticed the price of q1 was around the 0.4 ish range
100 of my q1 food just sold for $0.86CAD each... about 10 mins ago...I guess that bot reaches at least as high as $0.86 CAD...
Buying up to $4.30 for Q5 foods
All i read was tits.
All i read was tits.