Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I recently had someone accidentally sell a FN Mag Stab to my buy order for nearly 100M less than actual buy order. I wouldn't have noticed except they mailed me and I gave them the difference in the buy order price.

I now did this myself. I put a 49 instead of a 79 for the front value when selling a stack of 4 items. It immediately sold all 4 to the top buy order. Yes, I made a mistake, but why does the game not at WARN you that you are selling for less than the top buy order. I am out ~120M, which is very frustrating as that is still a decent amount of ISK for me.

I will of course be more careful in the future, but surprised the game even allows you to sell BELOW the top buy order.

This

Stop being bad.

How about a catch all warning?

Don't play the market, if you cannot read and gather the relevant information first.

Because this is a game that creates an unforgiving world in which your only content comes from the other players, a world in which the type of players define the type of world you live in.


And here you are leaving your stamp on this world, changing it some way. The EVE Universe will always be a little different with you around.

That's what EVE is all about and that's why I play EVE.





On a more business-oriented standpoint: you are given the freedom to sell an item for any price you choose. If nobody is already willing to pay that much, then the sell order will just sit around until it gets accepted or it expires. Just the same, if you elect to sell an item for less than it's worth, someone else who is willing to pay more will be the first to get it, but they'll still pay the amount you are selling it for. This is the same whether the transaction occurs immediately or the order sits on the market for a while.

Yes, I responded like a star. But thanks for suggesting I'm worth 7 of them.

I also say no to your other bad idea, but would suggest another. CCP should ban NPC corp pilots, from posting ideas here.

because people edit sell orders more often than they do buy orders, and I don't want to have to click through endless "are you sure" popups whenever I feel like being a market **** and driving the price down for bots/people who don't check the item quantity.

Sure I bet there would be a checkmark saying "dont let me know in the future about my oblivious behaviour, intentional or not" but then we would just end up back here with someone saying there shouldn't even be a checkbox because they checked it off and made a bad mistake, and all sales should be double checked by the seller.

If you really feel it is that much of a problem, do everyone else the favor and..... use contracts? Longer process, more checking and are generally not watched by market hawks as assiduously.

*ed Anecdote: i have done this with stacks of zeros in a contract, selling bill for mill, and was able to catch myself 10 minutes later. takes longer to sell, but you also don't get trading margin'd.

That's the thing, he knows what he did wrong. However, rather than learn from the mistake, he's asking for the devs to hold his hand to make sure he doesn't do it again.

And even that gets in the way.

I dislike handholding mechanics in general, but what you are asking OP is for the game to stop you from selling an item at the price you WANTED to sell it at...This goes beyond handholding and to a point where you could argue the game is making decisions for you.

No thanks.