autechre wrote:
bots are refering to the auto buyer bots.
and i agree to making it fairer for slower connection people, i have a 56k connection which never hits that, its usually 46k max or 45.5k and once it hit 35.3k though thats rare thank goodness. i never bother restocking because of it, i play games, but its so slow and painful, 2hours gets me 10k on games because i have to wait for the games to load and everything. most of my nps gets made from scratchcards actually

autechre, I'm in the exact same situation as you! I was actually able to get a whole 3 items from the Igloo last night - 1 book, a tyrannian food (thought it was a mystery island Duh me) and a red yarn ball. That's it out of all those constant restocks! It takes forever for the code page to load and everything's gone. Games are how I have made most of my np. Now that my hands are getting bad, that has really gone down. I stopped playing games completely from April until about a week ago because I just couldn't use the mouse or arrow keys for more than 5 minutes before my hand went numb and kind of seized up. Now I'm playing a little, with a break in between each game, but only about 5k worth, when I used to make from 10k to 20k a day on games.
I use my voice program to "type" here for the most part, but I can't use that on the site (I'm so afraid TNT will accuse me of using a program and freeze me) and it certainly wouldn't work for playing games.
Maybe there could be something like the Igloo for those of us on dial up. Like maybe we'd have to sign up separately and only people on dial up who had signed up would have access to that particular restock shop for the slower connection people. Like we'd have a special code to enter the shop...just a thought?