Someone explain this market mechanic to me because i dont get it.
What is the point of preventing people selling stuff for cheap?
Because a loooong time ago (before 2020) there were guys that was called literally “spillers” (or “perelivshiki”, keep in mind that crossout has mainly russian-speaking playerbase).
basically they put money from one account to another. let’s say that you are a spiller. on one of your accounts, you sell your storage and craft / buy ridiculous amounts of one item to make “spilling” easier. let’s say 200 equalizers. their market value is 300 coins. there’s an account that you need to “spill” all the money into. so you sell some equalizers to significantly drop the buy price, and then the target account puts, let’s say, 160 orders for equalizers at 1 coin each.
boom - you’ve successfully “spilled” all your money to someone else. usually this was done to hacked accounts, and “spilling” happened for real money.
developers tried to counter this with price corridors, buy/sell 10/30 minutes delay and 24 hours resell time, but there still are several methods that allow “spilling” and they stay here for years. these mechanics literally hurt only the players that abide by the rules and not the spillers LOL
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i obviously wouldn’t describe these methods. the ones i’ve described no longer work, so i guess they’re ok to share.
Well i officially hate these “spillers” now, making me wait a day to sell my stuff for cheap.
There’s a very short window for that. They remove price corridors after system maintenance on paints and decor so you can buy/sell those items at insane margins. Once every blue moon it happens to regular items too but that is much more rare, I think it happened 2 or 3 times in the past 3 years.
That’s nothing, when you try and sell (or buy) something where there are plenty of orders but “it’s outside the price corridor!”
Absolutely cooks me!
There is so much utterly retarded garbage in this game I wonder whether the devs are ever sober!
nothing better than regulating random shit for no reason and only hurting the “legitimate” players
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