Whitelisting of the Trade API

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madeinchina3 wrote:

Why would you disregard the time and effort of everyone who coded their own parsers? Why are poetrade.com snipers 'less harmful' than API snipers? I don't get this change at all. Did you change it only because people requested it? No, that's not how your policy works. I wonder what's the real reason behind this.

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HedgeMoney wrote:

Finally, a good change. Well, some people use the API, for non-trading reasons though. But in that case, they should just apply to be allowed to use the API if its for community wide tools that everyone can use.
But then again, that feels like a waste of time, that they should be spending on the game itself, instead.

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Setharial wrote:

What about PoeNinja?

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sarannah101 wrote:

Very nice!

Are you guys at GGG also working on a way to blacklist pricefixers? ... those who purpposely put up items/currency at either very high or very low pricings without any intention to sell those items, but instead use their listings to pricefix?

This should be done, especially since you guys at GGG have your own trading site now. Should be easy to write some code which spews out player names whose prices differ over 50% from the regular listings. Once a name pops up too often, manually check their item listings, and if needed give them a timed tradesite ban(increasing with each offense), like the chat channels have.

Pricefixing is one of the worst aspects of the game at the moment, especially for new players who do not know item values well and for players like me who hardly ever trade.