Cheapest goods bug at FFA - Earth Empires Forum

Marshal

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Oct 16th 2010, 19:28:30

Troops price at public: 134
Troops price at priv: 142

and still troops were bought from public so I lost nearly 900 bucks (4 cents per troop) when I bought nearly 23k troops.

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llaar

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Oct 26th 2010, 19:30:13

134 * 1.06 = $142.04 > 142

should have auto bought from private

Marshal

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Oct 26th 2010, 19:41:42

but it didn't.

Tertius

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Oct 26th 2010, 19:43:12

I have wondered if the auto-private-buy feature included tax or not. I kind of hoped it wouldn't so there would still be some benefit into making the decision to buy on private or public (even if it's only 4 cents per troop).

bart

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Oct 26th 2010, 19:44:01

you sure you didn't change your preferences so it buys from the public market no matter what the price on your private market is?

Marshal

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Oct 26th 2010, 21:36:48

my prefs have always been buy cheapest.

Pang

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Oct 26th 2010, 21:39:06

rounding made it the same price
if it's the same price, it buys from the public market over the private market

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Tertius

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Oct 26th 2010, 22:52:23

It was my understanding that the rounding took place over the whole bulk sale, aka over 23k troops, the .04 would matter ($920). Are you saying that instead the market rounds at the level of individual unit * tax?

So my question: is it Round(134*1.06)*23000 or Round(134*1.06*23000)?

qzjul

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Oct 26th 2010, 22:57:00

the rounding is done after the purchase... so the latter

Finally did the signature thing.

Tertius

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Oct 26th 2010, 23:03:57

But does the game's decision on where to buy from have the same rounding? Otherwise, we're back to the same question of why it chose what it did.

@Marhsal: Did you notice whether you actually paid the extra cash?

qzjul

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Oct 27th 2010, 17:56:35

I imagine the game's decision to buy/sell is based on the previous rounding

Finally did the signature thing.

Marshal

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Oct 27th 2010, 18:45:07

like I said on 1st post, troops were bought on public since no text about cheaper goods etc and amount of troops on public were lowered by that I bought. Not that easy to notice if pays extra friom troops/etc when trusts game.

llaar

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Nov 13th 2010, 18:10:40

why round at all?