What he did sucks but if this sort of thing gets to you this much then maybe you shouldn't take it so seriously. Stop playing once the game isn't fun anymore.

I noticed the undercutting in pretty much every commodity except for bushels. Tech, oil and turrets have been very cheap throughout the round.

You're right, mazooka. It didn't occur to me that cheating could be prevented my doing this because I overlooked the fact that standing orders went into effect almost instantly. I thought there would be a few hours wait until the order went into effect.

I was wrong, this is a good change.

EDIT - Wait if afaik is correct then standing orders can still be used to cheat. If afaik and I are cheating and he wants me to transfer some cheap turrets to him then he can place a standing order for 100K turrets for $70 and I can sell them for the same price.

If afaik is correct then as long as no one else had a standing order of $70 for turrets, then there's no stopping him from obtaining my cheap goods. I like the idea of a standing order for a higher amount trumping the standing order for a lower amount. This WOULD stop cheating.

Currently, anyone can figure out how many oil barrels, bushels, turrets...etc are being bought every hour. It would be nice if this information could be aggregated and displayed so that we can quickly obtain this info.

I have another suggestion. In addition to displaying the data I mentioned above, I think it would be interesting to know how many oil barrels, bushels... etc are being PRODUCED by every country linked to the market.

Similar to the way OPEC must report how much they are producing, I think it would be interesting to have this information. It might lead players to change their strategy mid-game in an effort to capitalize on any market shortage.

I used to play earth 2025 and recently discovered this game. Can anyone tell me why the market standing orders feature has been added?

I've already seen some weird stuff going on in the tournament market and it appears that some people are using this feature to cheat. Here's what I think they're doing:

Player 1 is a commie indy and can easily sell turrets for $97-110.
Player 2 is a casher and places a standing order for turrets for $75.

Player 2 asks his friend, Player 1 to put X amount of turrets on the market for $75. The amount placed on the market will match Player 2's standing order. Several hours later, the cheap turrets are scooped up right away.

This is a horrible feature that can easily be exploited by an organized group of cheaters. Even a single cheater can exploit this feature if he uses proxies to avoid being deleted.

It's an interesting feature but I think it's being abused so it should be removed.