Is this "mathing" right?

I'm comparing to sales transactions I did on the KB market

just looking at the base price, x quality = price received, at least that's my assumption...


Electric Power on Kebir Blue Market Mar 02, 5529

Quality: 280
Conversion: 280 becomes 2.80
Base Price: 97,680 SC$
Calculation: 97,680 X 2.80 = 273,504 SC$
Result: Matches the given Price Received


Defensive Missile Batteries on Kebir Blue Market

Quality: 258
Conversion 258 becomes 2.58
Base Price: 8,530,000 SC$
Calculation: 8,530,000 X 2.58 = 22,007,400 SC$
Given Price Received: 49,130,000 SC$

i must be overlooking something obvious here... ??

your doing the math right.

You might recall all my arguments with ANDY. I believe he would say the trade engine is working just fine.

I'm guessing they were in deep red in the second example.

The only thing I can figure is some player was in a jam and offered maximum price for Q330. It's well understood that the trade engine transmutes quality. The only debate is about where does the extra cash go when that happens?

that's really weird
I wonder if it's by design because this is a set formulate that in theory should be across the board.

Well if you study the logs enough, you will realize that both quality and market price are sometimes changed by the trade engine.

Andy says this is necessary, or nothing would trade.

I never said nothing would trade.

What I am saying is that the trade mechanism must make compromises, especially at high quality trading.

The market price is changing while trading is taking place.
But is can only fluctuate 4% up or down during every trading session.
At the end of a trading session in a product, it ends up within a margin of 4% up or down.

Quality is a bigger problem because the margins are wider and lack of offers or request for products originate with many players with different strategies.
Even with products that trade in large quantities, the high quality portion is a problem. There are many offers at a high price but not so many requests for products at a very high price.

It makes the process very complex.

If you look at the trading of shares in real life, there are many variations in offers and requests but there is no quality involved.

Quality also influences the prio