Market Discussions

Ok, had a look but couldnt find anything on this. Recently spent six weeks on and off grinding SOE missions for a Nestor which I built myself from BPC, took it for a little test run to see if I liked or would be likely to use it and decided to sell (was my original intent).

The regional Sell orders were from 1.3 billion upwards and Buy orders around 800 million. My eyes played tricks on me, I put in a sell order and thought I typed 1.29 Billion but missed a digit and without any warning the item disappeared for 1.29 million

I petitioned asking where was the normal market warning when placing sell orders under 50% and was told that is only for multiple items and not single items. now hang on, there is a warning if I sell two or more 100k isk items that I may be underselling but if I sell a 1.3 billion ship for 1.29 million there is no warning and the item is gone foroever.

To me this is clearly a broken game mechanic and needs to be fixed. I know someone else did the same thing with a carrier.

Anyway, fed up with this and the waste of 6 weeks of my time and both my subs have been cancelled. Would be nice to fix something so elementary...unless CCP, hugely underselling big ticket items by mistake is a intended game play mechanic and seen as a result for the person that gets the low value order.

Well the result is Minus my £240 a year. Cogratulations.

Im going to go ahead and point out that you would have had to miss 3 digits in order to sell for that much under the original price. 1 digit could be just a mistype. 3 is just negligence on your part to look at the value you were selling for. Don't be so hasty next time and don't try to blame it on the game.

Can also let the mouse pointer rest on "OK" for a brief moment - this will also add the commas.
If I am in doubt I always do that - and if I have made a mistake, just let the pointer slide off and retype.

I love market errors like this, helps me make some money
seriously though, you really need to double and triple check huge outbound orders.
because if you don't, someone else certainly will and make a huge profit at your expense and there isn't a damn you can do about it.

It's your fault, stop blaming CCP, learn to make a few bil/hr mostly afk.

OP - I wish more people would follow in your footsteps, and do something stupid that's hilariously profitable for me then ALSO come and deliver tears to sweeten an already very profitable transaction.

That "You are trying to sell this item for 99.87% below regional average, are you sure?" warning is like a smoke detector. Most of the times it goes off it's a bloody nuisance, but the one time it goes off when you need it to, it really saves you a lot.

By turning that box off, you did something as dumb as removing the batteries from your smoke detector.

He did not turn anything off. There is no warning when erecting a sell order for a single item. In fact, this was the whole point of his posting, but I gather you did not read it.

At this point - and having returned to EVE a few months ago - what I really want to know is, who are the sedated minions that rewarded your outstanding incompetence with x thousand "likes" on these forums?

I just tried selling some materials for COSMOS modules and even an 80% below average sale price (with a big red arrow ) wasn't giving me the popup with a single unit of two different items, checked my settings and there was nothing appropriate to reset. Buying however did give me a popup warning.

What if I told you that you lost another billion ISK when you bought the Nestor BPC.



xoxoxo this is funny

You don't have to turn the box off. The system is broken and just doesn't work half the time (it's particularly bad just after downtime). It's been like that for years sadly. If you accidentally overprice something and don't get the warning CCP will reimburse the excess broker fees but they won't fix it if you sell under as that would involve reversing a deal with another player.

Edit - one of the reasons they really need to fix this is because lag can sometimes stop your inputs being registered. The mechanic is there for a reason and making excuses for CCP not fixing something that is broken because 'lol tears' is pretty weak. Generally, if something is put in the game it should work. This often does not.