MyTwoPecs.com - PE Economy feeling Bullish

Originally Posted by ObseloV

2) Mind Essence - 2005/07/16 - 47500000% markup (1 unit)
This item, took 1.5 weeks to be shrugged off the private beta graphs, and of course, still features on the historical graphs.

Of course, the second item is immediately suspicious, since only one unit was sold at that price, which would be well below the ratio of units/sale of ME.

That most likely was a money transfer... One way to catch those automatically is to have your code determine whether the specific item is something that is usually sold in bulk. Of course that, too, can be tricked, but it would ensure all the little items used for transfers (decoys, moliks teeth, and now, Nexus) would automatically be flagged

[ObseloV]

Hmm... that option has never occurred to me

But yes, whatever the logic rules are to detect such cases, they aren't set in stone, and we can easily fiddle with them.

Even in RL, people manipulate markets... isn't this just a normal part of things? Although we must protect ourselves where we can, but I don't want MyTwoPecs to be seen as possibly influencing prices *because* of exclusions like these. But it we'll double cross that bridge when we get there ^^

[Devil Doll]

Originally Posted by ObseloV

Even in RL, people manipulate markets... isn't this just a normal part of things?

Excellent point. Any part of normal market analysis to to come to a conclusion on where a stock is over valued or not. Same thing here.

DD

[Hellfire]

you could do a test for outliers on all of the prices, and then not use any outliers in the average