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Corps not selling following the strategies

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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 19:41Link
So this corp is set to sell at +30 over quality,
Start at 353% of the market price
market price is The latest Market Price: 55,272 SC$ per unit

shortage is astronomical

this is what it actually sells

Mar 05 4309 66,592 302 158,103 SC$ 52,352 SC$

Base price 52,352 SC$ ?!?!?! this is problem 1.

The product is sold instantly. However, 353% with

base price 52352 = 184802
base price 55272 = 195110

at both base prices (who knows which one is correct ?!) its way below received price : 158,103

as a result this corps, where supply is 15 and demand 240 (millions), at quality upgrade 200 , make losses!

there is someting hugely wrong here.

the only explanation is that they didnt sold at 353%, as instructed

lets not talk about best price, you go -2B profit per month in a fully upgraded corp, with standard 300 salaries, pr
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 19:54Link
another exaplanation could be that this is a country only product

and countries can go miraculously -1 trillion in stock while not buying anything on the market because apparently +30 points over quality is to much ?
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 20:09Link
Mar 05 4309 66,592 302 158,103 SC$ 52,352 SC$

158103/52352 = 301%

so what exactly trail quality setting is ? it seems it does not work

either make it work or review all products that have aberant results like this one

thanks
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 20:13Link
so i checked some other corps, with different products

Mar 04 4309 74 289 1.84M SC$ 641,136 SC$ Market Sale executed.

here it sells at 287%

product quality is 289

settings is sell at 329%

so basically selling over quality does not work, at all, overall.

lol
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 21:36Link
order posted 2 game years ago, still not filled, by country

HighTech Assets Maintenance 125491 units best price 120 May 01 4307 -646,222,391

however corps orders seems to fill just fine.

so to resume

Problem 1: Sell Strategies trailing quality by +X are not executed.
Problem 2: Countries go -millions stock on Assets Maint, Off weapons maint, etc and dont buy anything over quality price
Problem 3: country buy orders dont get filled for game years
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John Galt

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 22:11Link
I have noticed the same issues and only use best price. Some products sell for less with trade strategies than they would at best price as you have discovered also.
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
08 Oct 2019 22:22Link
lets move over that trailing quality doesnt work, we established that lol

i understand that there must be some mechanism against cheating, for blocking money transfers via inflated sell prices

but that can be easily countered by executing hugely inflated price buy orders against the lowest sell offers, not the matching ones
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Andy

All worlds
09 Oct 2019 08:12Link
The price you ask for, quality+X is obviously what you want.
the buyer may want something else and there is no trade.

The trading system does not force anyone to buy for a price they do not want.
so quality + X is frequently too high and it does not sell.

Countries use weapon maintenance products to maintain the army.
They purchase these with your purchasing strategy and may, or may not get the products.

There are severe shortages on the market.

Transactions going for market price are the easiest to predict.
The numbers shown for supply and demand are only quantities offered or requested at market price.
Others offers and requests are not added to these numbers or otherwise it will be very easy to manipulate.

Buy orders at a very low price can sit there for ever.
shortages cause other orders to be delayed too.

If there is no product offered, there is no product purchased.
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
09 Oct 2019 08:14Link
you say :

The trading system does not force anyone to buy for a price they do not want.
so quality + X is frequently too high and it does not sell.

but the products sell instantly ! however they sell instantly at quality price not at the strategy price!