Market Discussions

I've sold faction heavy missiles at 300k isk before after a player clearly got confused at quantity and price. He bought the whole of Rens market doing this losing easily upwards of 100 billion isk. I'm not sure if CCP re-fund such soul crushing one click errors but they never removed any of my ISK. The Lesson all should learn is never to hold more than 10 billion in a single wallet or what ever you are not comfortable losing.

I've heard of CCP making some undeserved reimbursements in the past for instance when an alliance accidentally blew there own jump freighter full of T2BPO's and other shiny by jumping it to a blue pos that had the wrong settings. I've also ninja ganked someone who got their shiny high sec ship reimbursed for no reason other than he did not want to PVP and the dev felt me swapping ships was some how an exploit, it all depends on what lap your petition lands on.

Throw in a petition you may get your wallet re-set but it will all depend on the opinion and attitude of the dev who reads it.

Happened to me a while back and while it was better for me to eat the loss and continue trading rather than wait for ccp to resolve it I did ask what I can do for future reference. They said to leave it up and they can take care of it. From the post above me with a different answer it's more likely going to depend on which dev you get to take care of it. GL

Warning: Your order is x% greater than the average, are you sure?

the 'average' can be severly skewed early in the morning before the regional average can set it if one unit is bought up somewhere that is way off price I believe. It's happened to me in the last couple months where it's a large difference from the average and the warning did not pop up although not as large as the OP. I'm sure there are a couple other unusal circumstances where the pop up wouldn't give warning as well.

happened to me once, when I was a total newb, devs where very nice to refund me 80 or so million ISK, it was something like 20% of my worth at the time, was pretty crushing really.

There is a post in the "Issues, Workarounds & Localization" part of the forums under the header:


Ticking timebomb bug which will delete your entire ISK balance


Perhaps you should have a read and see if you have bin a victim of this new VM decimal misplacement error.

I have to be honest here... I can't believe there is debate on this topic. CCP can't be expected to hold everyone's hands and reimburse for every dumb mistake if this is to stay a true sandbox game.

Like someone else has posted, you get a warning box, and if you check that you don't want to see it again, that's on you. For this very reason, I never check that box, even if that means I take an extra second per order and lose a second when firing weapons in high sec.

Personally, I have made some good buys by placing extremely lowball orders. I am talking battlecruisers for less than 100,000 just as a single example.

Now, if you are saying it is because of the mechanics of how CCP determines market prices, THEN I totally agree it's all screwed up, at least for someone used to trading in real life US markets (and the rules are pretty much the same across the world)

For example, If I had a limit order to buy something at a price of 10, and some seller came in and sold at a price of 1, the trade would fill in real life at 10, not 1. But no... not in this game, it's the complete opposite. I lost some isk early on from this nonsensical mechanic. myself. It works the same on limit orders to sell- total opposite.

In addition, the descriptions of order types are completely wacky in this game. It causes great confusion between players of what a "buy" and "sell" price is as it seems no one has any concept of correct real life market trading terms here. Seriously, if someone's first experience to trading was in Eve, they would lose a lot and be extremely confused if they applied such knowledge to real money trades lol