Guild Wars 2

Hi,
I am only one who think that TP is under fire of bots? I try search some of theese programs to know how it works and it’s not hard to find some.

I know how somebody thinking. If I have 30 buy orders (same category) increase price more, but on 3 buy orders I will overpriced it only with 2 items, normal human never overbid this. 2 items overbid for no profit… by 20items. And not only 1st time.

I always bid under overpriced if amount of buy value is not high…but this is mindless. So can be this bot?

This has been happening for months or even years. 2 items, 1 copper overbid. I was thinking a lot about possible reasons, here are some:

If you buy 2 instead of 20, you will be able to order 10 times more different items with the same amount of gold. If the trade volume is low and overbids come quickly, there is no reason to order 20.

Also, if you order 20 of a rare item, you will make a “wall”, other players will see it and they will overbid. If there are only 1-2 items and your order is the next one, then maybe you won’t do anything and leave it as it is.

The last reason is that if you can overbid others quickly, then you can eliminate competition. I am sure that a lot of players can see the profit, but if they can’t keep up with you, they will stop trading these items. They can do only 1 thing: increasing the price until the profit is gone.

On the other hand if you order a lot of different items, it will require millions of clicks and 15+ hours every day to defend your bids. I am sure that 1 person cannot do this for a long time. But if you have 5-6 friends, then you can distribute tasks and control the market.

Using bots/macros for this would be risky, I am sure that there are some players who use TP bots, but they don’t have much influence on the market. More bots would mean more competition and prices would be near 0 profit, but it is not the case, you can easily find hundreds of flippable items with 1g+ profit.

I don’t know whether there are any successful TP bots but I do know that much of the behaviour that folks think are bots is just down to the very large number of transaction on the TP. All you can see are the current buy and sell offers and it is very hard to draw any hard conclusions from those, especially as a proportion of bids and offers will from people who have made an error or just been too optimistic about the price trend.

I’ll often overpay and under-price stuff just to buy/sell it quickly but you only have to watch the prices for a few minutes to see how actively traded some items are.