Suspicious shop watch
Flags vending machines whose buy/sell ratios look like raid bait (1 sulfur for 200 metal frags, etc).
Independent of your tracked-shop list, the relay continuously scans every vending machine on the server for ratios that look like raid bait. These are shops a raider plants near their target so they can find it again later without storing coordinates in plaintext anywhere obvious.
What counts as suspicious
The scoring heuristic flags shops whose item-for-currency ratio is wildly off-market:
- 1 sulfur for 200 metal frags.
- 1 wood for 100 stones.
- 1 lemon for 50 scrap.
- Generally: a near-worthless item priced 50× higher than any rational shop.
The detector tunes its threshold against the server's median pricing so it doesn't falsely trip on RP / event servers.
What the bot does
When it spots one:
Shop watch: 1 sulfur for 200 metal frags @ E14.
Do you want to set raid target? Type !confirm to mark it on the dashboard map.
Typing !confirm within 5 minutes pins the shop's location on your dashboard map as a raid target. Past 5 minutes the prompt expires.
Confidence ceiling
Suspicious shop watch is heuristic — it can fire on legitimate joke prices too (someone selling 1 cloth for 1000 wood as a sale-day gag). The cost of a false positive is one chat ping; the cost of a false negative is potentially a missed raid target, so the threshold is intentionally permissive.