[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 03-Oct-2007, at 15:22, Dale Glass wrote:
>> Because it drives up the price of the tail of the market, which
>> drives up the market as a whole.

> Drives up? Why? We have here a bot buying something no sane human  
> would for
> that price.

Um, no, that's not what I said. I didn't say that the land was  
overpriced when the bot bought it, I said that the land was less  
valuable than the average.

The price might have been reasonable at L$3-4/sm, the bot buys it and  
sets it for sale at the target "market price". If that's low enough,  
another bot buys it. It then sits on the market for a tier cycle or  
two and then gets knocked down or abandoned. If it's abandoned it  
stays off the market for months. If it's knocked down another bot  
picks it up and the cycle starts again. It never stays on the market  
at a price that it would actually sell for, because it's not cost  
effective for someone buying and selling through bots to actually go  
out and do anything with it.

In fact a lot of times you have a bot buying at 3, selling at 4,  
another bot buys it and sells it at 5, until it reaches the point  
where the bots won't touch it any more.

So, it drives up the price of the tail of the market, which drives up  
the market as a whole.