Adrian Idaho
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Posted - 2011.05.13 09:50:00 -
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There's just so much idiocy and whining in this thread, it makes me cringe. It's so easy to avoid getting scammed in EVE if
- you can read
- you don't interact with the market while you're drunk/high/very tired
- you apply the basic amount of scepticism required to play EVE
As for some of the stupid "solutions" offered in this thread, this post pretty much sums it up:
 Originally by: Destination SkillQueue
Originally by: Ronan Connor
Its even more simple.
Force fulfill the order and let the buyer go into negative figures if necessary. No other orders can be set up, while the wallet isnt balanced out.
A legit trader want to have money on his account-wallet under every circumstance. Just have more liquid money to trade with, not to go into negative figures.
Sigh. Two main issues with what you suggest. First, if your balance is in the negative you can't liquidate anything to cover the bill. Market actions have a cost, so you would have to rely on alts, charity, selling GTCs or direct trading to gain money. Basicly you would **** up the game for people using margin trading in order to protect a few ******s from a clever scam where they even get to keep the item they are trying to sell.
Second, if you force negative values you allow the creation of money from nothing. People have alts and friends and you can buy a new account by a PLEX, so your idea is just a huge exploit waiting to happen that can seriously unbalance the entire EVE economy. Even if you don't allow biomassing of characters with negative wallet, that is still 3 characters that I can use to exploit this and if I manage to create anything above the price of a PLEX I can keep doing it indefinitely in ever increasing amounts.
The funniest part of your solution is, that knee-jerkers like you are willing to risk ruining the entire economy and the fluid working of the market as a solution to a minor issue in the trading system that doesn't propably even have a measurable effect on the market as a whole.
I'm actually supportive of a reasonable measure that would fix this side-effect of the skill, but your and OP's solutions are just god awfully bad ones. If I had to choose between them and keeping things as they are, I'd keep things as they are and throw both of your horrible ideas to the garbage.
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However, there is a problem with Margin Trading (and an easy fix): if you have an order for 100 items up, and only have enough cash for 50 items, then if someone dumps more than 50 items on your order, those 50 items should actually be bought (and the order should be taken off the market after that). Reason: if you're a legitimate trader, you want to fill as much of your buy orders as possible.
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