WooHoo!

The problems reported and complained about (A LOT), have been solved somewhat now, as you can see here:
"Now Dark Rift and Instance Summon bosses doesn't affected by AP cap"

And what's more, this is a great improovement (how it sounds not how it's spelled):
"Increased SD buyout percent to 40% (+5%)"

http://forum.gameznetwork.com/threads/update-05-30-2020.232848/

 

It's a step in the right direction.

And for every non english user that struggle with english abbreviation in official post... SD is special deal. (And yeah, it took me 5 minutes to remember what it was...)

 

That is a good point, also the very fact that it simply doesn't exist anymore either, hence it shouldn't still be called that, but of course the "mainstream" does not want to change it yet, my suggestion just makes a whole lot more sense though: Party-Looting (PL).

 

What is sd?

 

It is an abbreviation of Special Deals, although a very simple google search "bdo SD" would have told you the same.

It used to be a game-function where the Marketplace had a section at the bottom, called Special Deals, which was made entirely from items that players had looted while in a party, and the party-leader had set a rule for the loot, which you could divide into either loot colours (green blue yellow), or sort by item price, so the items that were that colour or better (or price), would automatically go to the Marketplace, straight into that Special Deals section.

Then the items would be lowered in price by 30% initially, then every X-amount of minutes the items would lose more value, and be that much cheaper to buy from the Special Deals section. However the items would stay in a virtual "Loot-Bag" while the party was doing the grinding, so the players could always either "roll" for the loot in the bag, or just buy it out at a very small discount, Which of course lead to some players figuring out how to distribute silver to other players, which is against the policies of the Pearl Abyss core-game-functions. Basically if one player in the party that was doing Special Deals was very "rich" (meaning in-game silver), then she/he/it could then completely buy out the Special Deals items from the Loot-Bag immediately, making the items worth more to the remaining players in the party, and they would then effectively receive the silver from another player in essence.

So they removed both the Special Deals section from the new Central Market, AND removed the virtual Loot-Bag from the game entirely, so nowadays the formerly called SD-party (Special Deals) isn't that at all, since there is no such thing as a Special Deals Marketplace section, NOR a Loot-Bag anymore, which is why intelligently I call it Party-Looting now, because that is EXACTLY what it is nowadays, since the looted items value is immediately converted into silver and put into the BlackSpirit Vault.

Hopefully that answers your question

 

@laboram yes thank you for your answer.
I dont know what to think about it, sd items were probable breakkbg the market.

 

Fair enough @klaumidia, oh sorry did I purposely get your name wrong?

Just try to make an effort next time, at least make it funny