Does AutoTrade picks the most profitable offers?

[Browser_ice]

Hi, how does AutoTrade picks its trades?

Does it pick the most profitable one from a list it scanned trades?

Does it pick up the first trade it finds?

Does it pick the trade with the biggest volume?

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[Vectorial1024]

Interested people can look at /aiscripts/order.trade.routine.xml .

It can take a while to analyze the xml file contents, so give it some time... Eventually someone should be able to come up with something.

[teleportationwars]

I had a look at it. They come up with a value to describe how good one trade is over another. Someone more bored than me should dump that value along with the trade objects into a spreadsheet.

[Mysterial]

The AutoTrade script generally prioritizes short distance (by cluster) over price. All AI price decisions - regardless of script - are based on relative price, which means the ratio of the current price relative to the ware's minimum and maximum (-1 = min price, +1 = max price)

This means that, for example, if Energy Cells are available for buying at min price and selling at max price, then the AI will do that every time with little regard for the value to the player in real credits. This kind of behavior is necessary for the NPCs to not starve goods based on their pricing; for players it's suboptimal performance but it's better that way because it rewards players that research the area and apply appropriate settings.