when selling goods on the market...

Requiem

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Sep 23rd 2010, 17:35:27

In alliance it says it takes 4 to 5 hours to be placed on the market. Is that a random thing or determined based on the market i.e. supply, price, etc... What determines if it is 4 hours or 5 hours or anywhere in between?

Marshal

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Sep 23rd 2010, 18:08:34

between 4 and 5 hrs, avg is closer 4 hrs than 5 hrs.

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Requiem

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Sep 23rd 2010, 19:06:07

Thanks Marshal but that doesn't answer my question: What determines if it is 4 hours or 5 hours or anywhere in between?

Marshal

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Sep 23rd 2010, 20:13:21

randomness.

Ozzite

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Sep 24th 2010, 11:19:48

If it is both random and closer to 4 it either means they are drawing from a non-uniform distribution or it isn't random

Can an admin comment?

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Sep 24th 2010, 15:07:00

Someone splained this to me the other day, but since I don't net and the braves were playing, I wasn't paying attention

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Marshal

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Sep 24th 2010, 18:15:07

it is random but randomness avg is closer to 4 than 5.

dantzig

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Sep 28th 2010, 17:40:58

It seems to me that when I'm playing the market (pulling and listing a lot of goods in a short period of time) that things post slower. It could just be me but nearly everything I listed in the last reset of Express seemed to take 30 minutes.

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Ozzite

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Sep 28th 2010, 17:57:01

Originally posted by Marshal:

it is random but randomness avg is closer to 4 than 5.

That is fine, the question still remains:

What is the probability distribution over [4,5] that they are drawing from. I assumed it was uniform. If you are right, that is not the case.

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Twain

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Oct 1st 2010, 0:56:25

It's random, but it's 4 for everyone but Ozzite. It's 5 for him.

Marshal

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Oct 1st 2010, 18:30:37

lol@twain

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qzjul

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Oct 20th 2010, 21:08:27

its basically 4+rand_zero_to_one()

where the rand_zero_to_one() is a mersenne twisteri believe

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