when the previous SO was for $200 food, higher than food has sold all set and goods usually take 20-30 min to hit the market so no one can recall and sell for higher, and you put a $999 SO up with 5 min to go in the set, yes it is fluffing worthless. for your $999 order to get anything, all the orders below yours would have to be bought out, or randomly 30 minutes before sets end someone would of had to sell food for higher than the next highest order which was like $250. if you cant understand this then you have a problem. the people that were upping the SOs from $100 to $101 to $102 were also worthless. trust me, i play that worthless server called FFA and the only way to get to 1bill NW is through tech transfers and SOs and buyouts. i know the market better than you, trust me.

as for the auto buy, not everyone only plays express. people that play alliance servers sometimes turn off the autobuy because it benefits alliance mates. if your breaker has jets on the market for more expensive than your PM, but he needs them to sell before he can buy oil, you want to buy the public instead of the private. i know this is hard for you to figure out, but express isnt the center of this game, its actually the smallest server. i dont ount tourny, because tourny is worthless.