How would you improve it?

To improve this idea, only apply it to countries that hit a single country 3 or more times. Otherwise you're hurting land grabbers generally and making them more vulnerable to a suicide attack.

Standing orders don't really get in the way of transfers.

If you set your Standing order at $1 higher than the normal level (which there is usually a gap between it and the current price of goods) then you get the next bit of goods, no matter the price. So if I put cheap bushels on the market and tell you exactly when, you can log on right before the opening happens, put in a standing order and then you'll probably get them since most people don't sell to standing orders. There is risk there, because you could end up buying more expensive goods, but your chances are pretty high to be successful.

This would be a huge nerf to all-x strats.

What I'm saying is, I am all for the shortest possible market delay.

I'm sure there is a reason for it, to decrease cheating or something, but other than that I think it is pointless, except that a lot of people are used to it. :)

Choaswind,

If the market was instant it would be like real life. There certainly are predictions in real life. So would it be in instant, how quickly will everything sell? How high will the price go? Can I sell for slightly more than the current market price? Can I effect the market price? How?.... these are all questions that would remain, even if your goods were instantly dropped on the market.

Sounds like well over 90% agree. :)

Is there really a point to keeping them? Will extra traffic hurt the servers/service in any way?

You must be doing pretty well grabbing. Get more military strategy tech, it will make a big difference