Ingredient store sell quantities
BradMel
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Recently I have occasionally noticed someone offering quantities of 60, 70 or more of an ingredient for sale. As far as I can tell, you can only have a max of 55 items of fully upgraded storage so noone would be able to buy them, what is going on?
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Why would anyone do it? and
How come the slots aren't filling up with these large sales as noone can buy them?
My theory is that most of the ingredients for sale aren't from real players but put there by the game to feed real players the ingredients we need to play duals. I reckon that there is an algorithm that works out what to make available when to create scarcity and keep you coming back and I reckon that the ones with large quantities is a bug in the algorithm.
after all, how often do you sell ingredients?
Regarding in-game algorithms and quantity glitches, I think you may be onto something (recent addition of Duel Bots supports your theory). Because, not only do they offer too many to BUY but how else would they amass that many to sell, given the game's 55 item storage cap? Those people citing hacks/cheats are also right. Unmanageable sales quantities occur so often that both must be happening.
But I take issue with two things you wrote
I sell things ALL the time! Multiple times per day! I get WAY more parsley, onions, and carrots each time I collect my venue prize box drops than I need to prepare my most frequently used VIP boosts in 4-slot batches. I always seem to get tons of carrots when I need parsley and visa versa, lol. Conversely, I get far less garlic from those drops than I need and although plenty of tomatoes drop, I always need more. Across all venues, my mostly Gold boxes seem to yield equal amounts of parsley and carrots despite the former being classified as Uncommon and the latter being Common. So I'm always selling things I'll need to buy again ~3 hours later just to compose the boosts I use routinely. If one doesn't sell them off, unless there's an Ingredient Drop Event happening, incoming items disappear to maintain that 55 item cap, which means lost coins.
Also, garlic is quite often unavailable in the market these days; it is perhaps the most erratic non-rare item being sold. I realize it's tagged as Uncommon (don't get me started; garlic ought to drop just as often as carrots -- they're used in the same number of VIP dishes -- while carrots and parsley appear to drop at same rate). Not to mention that the scarcity of certain rare ingredients, particularly mascarpone (now that the Rush Hour VIP is practically a dueling requirement!) when Angus beef is always available doesn't make much sense.
So, given the random and over-limit drop quantities, plus scarcity of garlic (as well as aforementioned mascarpone) in the marketplace, I rather doubt there's a Big Brother algorithm there, overseeing/ensuring proportional availability. If there were such a thing, and there def ought to be, it would/should function much better!
I do hope they adjust drop frequencies and, if applicable, market bot behaviors. I also hope they add slots for increasing storage capacity for those of us who need it.
- SuFe718