Spotlight: Adaptive (Safe)
What it is: LlamaMarket's newest, most advanced, and most intelligent pricing algorithm.
“I understand market behavior. I will protect your profit margins and actively help pull prices back up when they crash.”
Why it is the most advanced
The Adaptive (Safe) decider uses sophisticated logic to behave like a real, experienced trader rather than a simple machine:
- Smart Outlier Detection: It uses advanced mathematical modeling (Interquartile Range) to isolate the middle 50% of recent sales. This creates incredibly robust boundaries that filter out joke listings, transfers, and accidents far better than standard averages.
- The Vendor Safety Net: It automatically checks if the item can be bought from or sold to an NPC vendor. It guarantees your price will never fall below 150% of the vendor price, so you never sell at a loss.
- Volume-Weighted Pricing (VWAP): If enabled, it analyzes the last 7 days of sales across your world. Instead of a simple average, it calculates a Volume-Weighted Average Price. If 100 items sold at 500 Gil and 2 sold at 100 Gil, it knows the true going rate is close to 500 Gil.
- Price Recovery (Anti-Crash Shield): If someone dumps a few items at a ridiculously low price, most bots undercut them and crash the market. The Adaptive decider refuses. If the cheap listings are small (3 items or less), it knows they will sell out fast, so it prices your item to undercut the next cheapest healthy listing instead — letting the crashers sell out while your item sits next in line at a higher price.
- Smart Self-Listing Adjustment: If your listing is already the cheapest, it won't undercut itself. In fact, if your competitors have sold out, it can actually raise your price to match the new, higher market rate.
⚠ Regional Limits (Universalis Dependency)
To perform its advanced Volume-Weighted calculations, the Adaptive (Safe) decider requires access to Universalis (a global crowdsourced market board database).
Mainland China & Traditional Chinese clients: Due to network connectivity, region blocks, and a lack of data uploads from these servers, Universalis data is extremely limited or unavailable.
Fallback behavior: On these clients the decider falls back to local history limits or simpler pricing logic. It still works, but you will not get the full benefits of the advanced adaptive features.
HistoryBypass — The Smart Hybrid
What it is: A combination of the Sane Bounds Guard and the Bulk Matcher.
“I want to compete with similar stack sizes, but I also want to make sure I don't sell during a market crash.”
How it works
It runs the math for both BypassQty (Bulk Matcher) and HistoryLimited (Sane Bounds Guard) at the same time, then chooses the higher price of the two.
Best for General selling of stackable items where you want to maximize profits while keeping a strong safety net.
BypassQty — The Bulk Matcher
What it is: A quantity-aware strategy for bulk sellers.
“I only want to compete with sellers who are listing similar amounts to mine.”
How it works
Bulk buyers want convenience and will often pay more for it; someone who needs just 1 item won't buy a stack of 99. This decider ignores listings with much smaller or much larger quantities than yours.
- If you are selling a stack of 100, it might ignore listings of fewer than 20 items (too small to matter to a bulk buyer) and listings of more than 400.
- It sums the quantities of all comparable listings. Once that sum matches or exceeds your stack size, it undercuts the listing that pushed it over the threshold.
Best for Items sold in stacks (crafting materials, ores, food) where stack size strongly influences a buyer's decision.
HistoryLimited — The Sane Bounds Guard
What it is: A smart strategy that protects you from market manipulation and crashes.
“I want to be competitive, but I won't participate in crazy price spikes or market crashes.”
How it works
- Instead of only looking at current active listings, it looks at the item's recent sales history (what people actually paid).
- It filters out extreme transactions (a money-transfer purchase at an absurd price, or a 1 Gil sale).
- This establishes a sane price range (a historical minimum and maximum).
- It then ignores any active listings that fall outside this sane range and undercuts the lowest normal active listing.
- If there are no active listings within the sane range, it assumes there is no normal competition and prices your item at the historical maximum limit.
Best for Valuable items, gear, and materials prone to sudden crashes or price-gouging attempts.
Khajiit — The Aggressive Undercutter
What it is: The most direct and simple pricing strategy.
“I want to be the cheapest option on the board right now, no matter what.”
How it works
- It looks at all active listings for your item and finds the absolute lowest price.
- It undercuts that price by a set amount (e.g. 1 Gil) or a percentage (e.g. 1%) that you configure.
- Friend-Friendly: If the cheapest listing belongs to you or someone on your whitelist (a friend or another of your characters), it matches that price instead of undercutting it.
- Safety Net: If you set a Minimum Price, it never prices below it. If there are no other listings, it uses your Maximum Price or falls back to recent sales history.
Best for Fast-moving, high-volume items where being the cheapest is the only way to sell quickly.
Risks Vulnerable to market crashes. If someone accidentally lists an item for 1 Gil, this decider blindly undercuts them, potentially selling your valuable items for pennies.