Market Discussions

I feeled the need of posting this to alleviate the weight of my error but feared the comments.
But I see nice people giving advices, it looks like there aren't only griefers in the community


It doesn't matter. Whatever is the sum, some will say that they earn more in an hour, others will tell that I didn't deserve cause of this bad fail.
Anyway no numbers can summarize the "work" of a gamer life.


I didn't know that, awesome tip, thanks!


Yes... I'll keep 1B on my corp wallet now.


"Big fat fingers", it's that


But enough talked, fortune awaits!
I have a plex to farm, an Abaddon ready to pulverize Amarr ennemies and a Noctis dreaming of seeing the world outside his hangar.
See you soon, I'll be back on the market when I'll have some billions to lose

50 mil or 500 mil doesn't make a difference. The code may or may not be sloppy but the solution already exists: Use Tab, not Enter.

Use TAB

Not ENTER.


PS: I say this every time one of these stories comes up. Shame it is not part of the new player experience some where.

friend of mine sold a cargo expander 2 for like 50 mil or so... we thought i was a kid doing RMT.

Clearly a market bug by CCP.

In no way should you as buyer pay more than the best sell order which fulfils your buy order.

In RL trading on stock exchanges its impossible that by setting a too high limit you have to pay that price. You would always get the best sell price possible on the market.

Ank, I know how you feel. I suffered my single largest loss ever - 8.4 billion ISK - in just the same way. It was back in June of 2009, a busy Sunday in Jita and market order entry lag was almost unbearable. You could key in an order, leave to go get a beer, and still see the digits loading into the order entry window, one.... by.... one... when you returned. I was trying to enter an order to buy 20,000 units of Ferrogel, then trading at around 47,000 per unit. I thought I had keyed in a buy price of 47,040 per unit and hit Enter (yea, I know, stupid me for hitting Enter), but the window showed only 4704. After a reasonable pause, I keyed another 0 and hit Enter. Of course, the extra zero then finally registered along with two enters, so I never saw a warning screen. My order filled at a price of 470,400!

I petitioned this until I was blue in the face, on two grounds. First, extreme market lag had caused this order entry error. Second, on the point brought up by Dandro and others - that the order entry mechanic is grossly flawed. An order should be handled as a limit order to buy (or sell) at the stated price or better. A buy order at a price higher than currenlty listed sell orders should fill in layers, at the asked price of each outstanding sell order in queue up to the limit price. Same in reverse for sell orders. Had that mechanic been in place, my order would have filled in several increments at prices ranging from 48,000 to 49,000 per unit.

Most of you will be pleased to hear that CCP stood its ground, never giving in to my reimbursement request, despite my lengthy and (I thought) well-presented arguments, until I finally grew weary of the battle. There was no acknowledgement of extreme lag, and the mechanics were deemed to be working as intended.

Fortunately, my loss was only 8.4 billion....

Nope. I disagree and submitted a bugreport about that problem.

Seriously??!!??

I don't think that Ank Parkor was saying anything other than, "Yeah I messed up, but what can I do to avoid this later on?". (And in the process provide some light entertainment ).

Now you are going to turn this into a CCP market interface rage thing? - Seriously?

IMO - if CCP were going to touch this part of the game I would prefer they look at something more interesting.

The fact that you can [TAB] and get the pricing formatted with thousands separators and decimal points plus as Brock points out there should've been a warning about being xx% percent above market average, should be enough. (Actually I'm unclear if you can turn this warning off, but I keep it on and it has saved my wallet at least 10 times).

In any case, not every mistake you make is someone else's (like CCP's) fault.

Poor bullet proofing is always the developer's fault, always.

I remember years ago when I was flying a Drake when I was a noob and was a few days away from flying the Nighthawk, I just randomly checked the contracts and what do I see a Nighthawk with T2 Shield Purgers for only 200mil, I sold both my Drakes and various other ships/modules just to buy it. As back than the Nighthawk cost 200mil and EACH T2 rig cost over 400mil, so it was a 1bil ship for 1/5 of the cost. Needless to say I was jumping for joy over that transaction.

The name of the ship was Punishment, suiting name considering how much the pilot lost on that sell. That ship served me admirably for about 3-4years till it met it's untimely demise last year due to random acts of stupidity.

Just in case you missed it the first time around.

if (Use TAB);

joy;

else;

tears;