Is it time to do something about ATOs?

[Marbing]

7 hours ago, golstat2003 said:

 

In optional difficulty sure. Not at the base level.

Of course, don't want to break the game for the casual player. 

[Yomo Kimyata]

9 hours ago, SwitchFade said:

Hi.

 

Oh look, economics.

 

 

By increasing supply, we would see a shift in equilibrium pricing, causing it to trend lower, as well as a better feel for the actual total market demand.

 

 

A small increase in supply of ATO would not change the observed zero availability, it would simply cause equilibrium pricing to shift lower for ALL ATO, vis-a-vis the previously mentioned normal and substitutable goods.

This is certainly true for market orders, but not necessarily for limit orders.

 

Example:  sell something at 1 inf.  Assuming there are any bids at all, it transacts at the highest outstanding bid.  That’s a market order, and you are a market taker (you are ‘taking’ the market conditions.). You are shifting prices lower.

 

Example;  post something at 15mm and it doesn’t instasell.  It won’t sell until or unless someone bids 15mm or higher and all lower outstanding offers are lifted. That’s a limit order, and you are a market maker.  You have no impact on prices.

 

You could post a thousand LotG procs at 15mm, and that wouldn’t move prices lower UNLESS people see there are a thousand more and say “dur, there are a thousand more at market prices” and lower their bids and other sellers start cheapening their offers.  And that’s certainly possible, but it’s not a first order consequence.

[Hedgefund]

I've never had a "reasonable" bid go unfilled for 24 hours.  Supply is fine.