Are people using Tools for automating Trade?

I have noticed this a lot - I have had a handful of characters who seem like normal "players" in trade.

ALL other trades, I get an invite within a second or two after I message to buy (From official trade site), once I port to their hideout, trade done, a whisper (mostly " TY GL" ), and trader leaves group. This seems so fast (convenient of course for me, as whispering a lot of people and getting no response is wildly enriching gameplay I understand), but curious.

Thanks

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I think there are certain scripts/overlays people use where they can bind hotkeys to things like "leave party" and it prompts a text message aswell.

It's not really automated, but it feels like trading with a bot, I agree.

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MildlyClever wrote:

I have noticed this a lot - I have had a handful of characters who seem like normal "players" in trade.

ALL other trades, I get an invite within a second or two after I message to buy (From official trade site), once I port to their hideout, trade done, a whisper (mostly " TY GL" ), and trader leaves group. This seems so fast (convenient of course for me, as whispering a lot of people and getting no response is wildly enriching gameplay I understand), but curious.

Thanks

P

This is the old story about "boot hunting" in POE.
Players who hear when trading and don't say "TY" are boots!?
Players who use trade site live search are also boots because some don't know and don't want to know how live search really works, etc.

Why would I hunt boots when I have a perfect pair of shoes?;)

I am not on a witch hunt, nor do I expect a deep conversation with a trader, really

For example, if I am doing a currency trade, say 500 of one for some chaos, when I message from Forum, I get the invite right away, go to hideout, trader initiates trade and we complete trade, they drop party. If I whisper asking if they want 500 mor, no response ( original whisper from official trade site is In English). But if I refresh trade site, message from there, I get invite right away.

Again, am just curious. I sure do prefer these traders to those who never respond!

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Sadaukar wrote:

I think there are certain scripts/overlays people use where they can bind hotkeys to things like "leave party" and it prompts a text message aswell.

It's not really automated, but it feels like trading with a bot, I agree.

Makese sense, thanks.

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MildlyClever wrote:

I have noticed this a lot - I have had a handful of characters who seem like normal "players" in trade.

ALL other trades, I get an invite within a second or two after I message to buy (From official trade site), once I port to their hideout, trade done, a whisper (mostly " TY GL" ), and trader leaves group. This seems so fast (convenient of course for me, as whispering a lot of people and getting no response is wildly enriching gameplay I understand), but curious.

Thanks

P

That's pretty much what I do also (instant invite, same "ty gl" message for everyone, instant leave group after trade), except if I'm online, in many cases I'm in a map and might need to wait for me a bit, to finish the pack and tp.

When doing lots of trades, you eventually start using same messages/pattern anyway.

The basic "awakened poe trade" isn't a bot, it just use the clipboard and little overlay. On the other hand, especially earlier in league, there are alot of fully automated, completely game's rules breaking, trade bots, doing buying/selling:

They have very clear delays for each single interactions and don't respond to wispers ofc. If you decide to not trade with them once they are in your hideout they will not ask you why, nothing, they stay for like 1 minute then timeout and leave without a word.

These cheaters deserve to be spotted and reported.

They do:
1. Analyze the Client.txt parsing the string and looking for the specific substrings generated by official trade site. This is the reason why the bot doesn't respond if the request formed in "non-standard" manner

2. Copy data under the cursor to the clipboard and extract to analyze.

3. Read specific pixel @ coords

4. Use native way (RPM()) to read process memory but it's not neccessary to complete trade request.

It doesn't matter what is it: script, native or managed code. AHK has an option to call native functions. .NET uses marshalling, C/C++/RUST can call it directly.

Awakened POE trade is probably 90% of what you are experiencing, but yes, there are also bots.

Highly suggest looking in to getting Awakened POE if you are playing trade league.

Features:

-Price check almost any item with keyboard shortcut
-Save RegEx's for easily filtering your stash/rolling maps
-Bind single action macros to hot keys (this is the feature you are experiencing)

Personal examples:

-Hovering over an item in stash and clicking CTRL + X launches price check overlay, allowing you to see whats currently for sale with similar mods and a suggested value.

F1 - invites last person to whisper me to party
F2 - exits game (residual from gauntlet this league)
F3 - whispers reply to last person "Thank you for the trade and GL"
F4 - reply to last whisper "Currently in a map/boss, will you wait?"
F5 - teleports to hideout
F6 - teleports to Kingsmarch
F7 - T16 Map mod Regex for main character
F8 - T17 Map mod Regex for main character

shift + space - awakened menu interface