Player Features and Ideas Discussion

After the release of Phoebe's multi-sell option, the interface no longer presents a warning if you're accidentally selling something for 10% of its value. I filed a bug report and the CCP agent response was that it is working as intended. Why did we lose this key piece of functionality? As a trader who updates hundreds of orders dozens of times a day, sometimes I make a typo. Today I sold some drones for 134,525 instead of 1,345,250 and cost myself about 2 billion. This kind of thing has happened to me 3 times since Phoebe release each time costing a lot of money.

Your opinions are valuable, I would like to construct a case to request CCP re-add this functionality.

Considering I have become used to this feature I type very quickly when updating many orders per day, knowing that it would stop me if I make such a typo. 3 expensive mistakes later now I have to very slowly update the orders.

To answer your question, and being a developer myself, I suspect this has to do with the programming of the multi-sell-item box. The update order and buy order boxes are both simple input boxes that take an item, a quantity and a price. Therefore it is easy to calculate whether the order is outside the safe range and pop a warning (although even before, there were sporadic bugs I reported related to this, where it would show the warning even if you just bumped your order up by 1 cent). The new sell box since it takes multiple items probably the developer neglected to add this feature as it would need to perform the check for each item inside that sell box, and if any of them were outside the parameters, pop up the warning. I don't use the multi-sell feature, I only put 1 item at a time, therefore I want the old functionality back.

The main purpose of this thread is to get input from the community that this is indeed valuable so that we can make a case to CCP that it needs to be put back. In my opinion any functionality that used to be there that is now gone is called a regression and therefore needs to be fixed.

In the previous thread it was established that when you sell multiple items you *do* get a warning if your price(s) is outside limits.

It is *only* when you erect an order for one single item that you will not get a warning. The muliple sell box can handle giving you a warning, the code is already there.
Which makes it just more silly to have this seller "trap" for single items.

Of course, if you were to simlpy, oh, I don't know, double check your numbers before hitting ok then none of this would even be necessary.

Suppose that's too much to ask when CCP can simply do it for you, right?

Ahh yes, I usually get this response when I tell people to take personal responsibility for their own actions. There is a vast difference between your inane example of not having any UI to play the game, and wanting CCP to constantly double check your own actions so that you aren't making any mistakes. Half a second is all it takes to verify you typed in the proper number, probably not even that. So if you run 300 orders in a day, you would have spent 2.5 minutes total verifying your own actions. 2.5 minutes out of hours.

Try simply learning from your mistakes instead of asking CCP to be your nanny.