My most basic description of a mallbot...
A program running a character buying items from the mall or flea market to resale for profit.
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Why would i be on peoples baleet lists?
Why would i be disabled? (that seemed a very stupid remark to me, cant see how it breaks any rules)
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Simple in both cases. I put 50,000 yeti furs in my store for 184 meat each. You hit my store 50,000 times buying them 1 at a time when you could just buy them all in one shot. 50,000 is ridiculous I know, but let's go with that number.
The buying of 50,000 yeti furs 1 at a time would require 50,000 server hits (if there is no re-direct). Because you would be saying "buy(1, $item[yeti fur]);" each time, kolmafia would search the mall each time. Another 50,000 server hits(if there is no re-directs). That's 100,000 server hits for what is it? 12 meat profit each 2 server hit? Or 6 meat per server hit? If I saw something that severe happening in my store I would baleet you. I'm betting there are a lot of others out there that would too.
Now more reasonable would be 1000 yeti furs, 2000 server hits for just 12,000 meat total profits. If someone did put 50,000 of them in their store and you bought them like that my money says that Jick and company wouldn't like the 100,000 server hits, and your account would get disabled.
Sorry for having an asshat like response earlier. I really try to be as friendly as possible, but fail to realize that often people just don't realize the full possibilities of what they are wanting.