It was my understanding that when multiple standing orders are up at the same price, goods were sold to the oldest standing order first, until that standing order has either been met or the buying country runs out of cash on hand (reference: http://wiki.earthempires.com/...ic_Market#Standing_Orders). It doesn't seem to be working that way in game, so I'm curious as to how it really does work.

I have a standing order up to buy bushels at $36, and earlier today it was triggered and I purchased around 9 million bushels.

23.5 mins ago
You purchased 9,235,453 Bushels at $36 for $332,476,308 via standing order.
50,764,547 Bushels remain in your order.


Minutes later, somebody else purchases 15 million bushels at $36.

18.1m ago 15,880,299 Bushels bought for $36
25.1m ago 9,235,453 Bushels bought for $36

Since my Standing Order was activated once, I would think that my SO was the oldest and I am first in line to buy bushels at $36. How did somebody leapfrog me and purchase at $36 instead of my SO grabbing them again? I had plenty of cash on hand, so that isn't an issue.

SOs get filled once then move to the back of the line. So it's not until the full standing order is met, but rather each standing order is met once and then goes back to the end of the line again.

So I just have to cross my fingers and hope that when my SO is at the front of the line, I'm the guy who randomly stumbles upon 40 million bushels coming on instead of 20,000? I guess I had thought these could be used more strategically, and didn't rely on luck like that.

I thought standing orders did't go through the instant the goods come on the market, meaning somebody camping could snap them up first. Could that be what happened here?

yep

otherwise i could just put an SO for 10 billion bushels and nobody else would ever get to buy any.

searching is your friend: http://forums.earthempires.com/...018:19&z=s-o-question

does that apply to all your sos, or just the one filled? im assuming its the one filled

so technically kalick should put 10 sos for 6m bushels each and all of it would be fifo, unless someone really wanted to put up like 2000 bushels on the market at a time

is this correct? ;p

trep, you can only have 3 standing orders for bushels (or any good type) at a time.

ah lol ive only had 3 out at a time max in the past so ive never hit the "limit"

thanks for clarifying =)