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  • $\begingroup$ I don't understand #1 and #3 in your answer. "But because they are so fresh they forgot to include mineral cost to the ammo cost as they didn't pay for it directly (only with time used for mining)." What? " If you buy minerals and then make ammo and sell it, you lose money." Why? "But you can put buy or sell orders too - so, you put a low buy order on minerals and high sell order on ammo you are making and profit in the end" What? " $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 13, 2021 at 14:23
  • $\begingroup$ "Reason why you even need to manufacture is in volume of trade - usually, slightly more people are selling minerals directly to the highest buy order, and much more people are buying ammo from the lowest sell order." What? $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 13, 2021 at 14:24
  • $\begingroup$ @user161005 You mine minerals and in an hour get enough for say 1k bullets. You could sell those minerals for 10k. But fresh idiots sometimes forgot to add this 10k material cost to their price calculation (as they mined minerals themselves it was free for them - they didn't buy them), and they opted to sell the bullets for 9k - thinking they made 9k profit by selling bullets. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 14, 2021 at 5:27
  • $\begingroup$ @user161005 There are market orders, eg someone is selling 10k minerals for 100k of money, another is buying 10k for 90k of money. If you have 10k minerals, you can decide to directly sell that for 90k. But you can opt to put another sell order for say 99k. If someone is buying, they can either buy your order for 99k directly, or set buy order for say 91k. Etc etc. There is usually a ~10% gap between buy and sell orders that have meaningful volume - so if you are just buying outright, and selling outright, you are earning ~20% less than someone who put the highest buy and lowest sell order. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 14, 2021 at 5:35
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    $\begingroup$ @ZizyArcher: Note that the noobs actually did make 9k profit selling bullets. Yes, opportunity cost is important to consider if we want to maximize profit, but the argument that "you could have made more elsewhere therefore you're actually losing money" is invalid. There's always some other way I could have made more money than I am in real life, but that doesn't mean I'm going bankrupt. As long as my incoming money is higher than my outgoing money, I'm making a profit. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 15, 2021 at 0:43