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So what's that warning message called again?

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Krawdad
The Racket
#1 - 2012-01-20 03:46:58 UTC
First, the punchline/reason for the question. I was adjusting a buy order and highlighted a digit to change it, instead I added an additional digit. Thankfully there weren't that many of them for sale so I only lost 480m from this.

The question is, this price was 800% over the regional average, so why didn't it give me that "Are you sure" popup? Pretty sure you can't even disable that thing.

So yeah, point and laugh Lol
Shar Tegral
#2 - 2012-01-20 04:30:33 UTC
Tab is your friend.

Always tab after entering in any price changes. Tabbing will then allow it to format your numbers so you can properly see what you've done.

Enter is the enemy.

If you hit enter it will not bring up number formatting, it will not move to the next field, you will not collect $200. Whatever price you put in will be instantaneously acted upon regardless of benefit or harm to you.

So class, remember:

Tab is your friend.
Enter is the enemy.
Krawdad
The Racket
#3 - 2012-01-20 05:11:11 UTC
Ah, did not know that about tab - thanks.

However, pressing tab every time would greatly increase the time it takes to update ~150 orders. While losing 480m in a flash hurts the ego, tripling the time to update orders would hurt my soul.

I was mainly annoyed that the warning message never showed up. It has shown up on orders before, even when I use the enter key.

On a somewhat related note, is it common for the client to stutter fairly heavily while updating orders if you have lots of orders up? Not sure if that's on my end or not. The client may have just lagged through the warning I guess.
Jorn Isu
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-01-20 05:25:34 UTC
Krawdad wrote:
Ah, did not know that about tab - thanks.

However, pressing tab every time would greatly increase the time it takes to update ~150 orders. While losing 480m in a flash hurts the ego, tripling the time to update orders would hurt my soul.

I was mainly annoyed that the warning message never showed up. It has shown up on orders before, even when I use the enter key.

On a somewhat related note, is it common for the client to stutter fairly heavily while updating orders if you have lots of orders up? Not sure if that's on my end or not. The client may have just lagged through the warning I guess.

He said it was because you pressed enter. Click the accept button (or whatever) if you want the sanity check.
malaire
#5 - 2012-01-20 11:24:51 UTC
Jorn Isu wrote:
He said it was because you pressed enter. Click the accept button (or whatever) if you want the sanity check.

I allways use Enter and I do get that warning often - nowadays it can't be disabled. I don't really know why OP didn't get that warning. Maybe check settings whether you have disabled it when you still could disable it.

ps. I really hate when EVE calculates wrong average. Your order is 83556% or 14587323598% over average is not fun after first few times. (And no there has been no 0.01 ISK sells in recent history, EVE just cant do basic math.)

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Shar Tegral
#6 - 2012-01-20 12:07:29 UTC
Krawdad wrote:
However, pressing tab every time would greatly increase the time it takes to update ~150 orders.
Once you do something enough to become habit, it gets done so fast you don't even notice it. I've run upto 300 market orders at any given time and, truly, the tab thing is the least time sink you'll encounter.

As to stuttering, do you still have auto-updating on when you are viewing the market?
Turn it off, you'll find less stuttering and lag.
Krawdad
The Racket
#7 - 2012-01-21 02:52:23 UTC
I do have auto-update turned off, actually. And if you don't a similar issue with 300, then it's probably just on my end.

It ~feels~ like it's an issue caused by my personal orders updating too often - is there a way to disable that or slow it down? When lots of people are selling me stuff, the stuttering gets really bad. When the pace of sales is pretty slow, there's no stuttering.
Shar Tegral
#8 - 2012-01-21 03:44:55 UTC
Krawdad wrote:
When lots of people are selling me stuff, the stuttering gets really bad. When the pace of sales is pretty slow, there's no stuttering.
Sadly no, there is no way to disable auto-updating of your own orders. That can be a major lag/stuttering factor. The best you can do is clean out your cache every so often and not be doing much else. (I.e. trade while in station: Ship spin view not Capts Qrtrs)
Krawdad
The Racket
#9 - 2012-01-21 05:03:51 UTC
Ah ok I will try clearing the cache then. Thanks for the responses.
flakeys
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-01-21 09:27:34 UTC
Petition the loss , might get it back if lucky.

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Lauren Hellfury
Super Happy Awesome Fun Times
#11 - 2012-01-21 11:41:31 UTC
It is possibly worth noting that time dilation was in effect in Jita last night. I don't know how recently you've started suffering the stutter, but if that's where you were trading and it's a recent issue I'd put money on it being related.

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Commander Disarray
Doomheim
#12 - 2012-01-24 00:06:43 UTC
This blunder also reminds me of another one that I come across frequently. A sell order that was meant to be a buy order!

Imagine, if you will, an item selling for 140,000,000 when all other items below it are selling for 180,000,000 and up. The highest buy order was 139,999,999. You KNOW it was meant to be a buy order, but some tired, sleepy trader accidentally listed it as a sell order!! And worst of all, that trader can't do jack for the next 5 minutes!

So what would you do?