The Solution:
Highlight buy orders in red if the player they belong to does not have the capital to pay out. add a tooltip to explain why it is red. This can be avoided so easily.

One of the concerns about marking orders using the margin trading skill was that marking them could negatively impact the ppl who use the skill legitimately.

One less column, less database, happier server, fatter hamsters

Dropping a column in a big table is a b*****d.

And you have to pray you dont (and never had) have lazy developers who select * and rely on an order existing. Or order by 1/2/3/n in the code.

A drop isnt likely

It's your own fault for not reading the price you were paying correctly...

If you put a sell order up for less than the highest buying order, it'll automatically sell it to the highest buy order that's equal or more than your price.

...Well at least you get to keep your goods, that are worth 3 bil. All you need to do now is find another player who shares that belief and you can sell them your fine products at a generous 5% discount.

I've always wondered, aside from this scam, what is the point of the min required for sale?
I mean that seems the easiest fix for the scam is to get rid of that
One less column, less database, happier server, fatter hamsters

I didnt even know there was a skill that allowed you to create false buy orders

I feel less inclined to be a part of EVE too after CCP Rise completely **** all over the versatility for the SP-intensive Rattlesnake, a ship considered to be UP, for no good reason whatsoever.

I was recently the victim of a market buy order scam that cost me 3 bil.

The guy had flooded the market with sell orders for an item at 300 mil a piece, he put a buy order up that looked like a typo 700,000,000 rather than 70,000,000. so I figured Id try buying one of these and sell it. then i realised the buy order was for 10 so I couldent sell it. At this point I realised I had been scammed and thought... wouldent it be fun to aquire 10 of these to fill his order so he has to pay out... so I did I spent 3 billion on it. and when I clicked it the order dissapeared and instead it had put the 10 items up on a sell order for 700,000,000 each.

SCAMMED BIGTIME.

I didnt even know there was a skill that allowed you to create false buy orders, but after some reserch I understand the idea behind the skill it just needs a fix to stop people doing this.

The Solution:
Highlight buy orders in red if the player they belong to does not have the capital to pay out. add a tooltip to explain why it is red. This can be avoided so easily.

What do you think happens when the seller has margin trading 5 and posts a billion isk order but only has half that in his wallet when someone tries to sell to it?


EVE doesnt do overdrafts.


Edit: The amount of people who patently have no clue how this works suggests that I should start doing this.

Your reading comprehension suggests that you should go ahead and do it. Those two statements weren't separate, they were in conjunction with one another.

In your case, it's quite simple: there'd be a buy order that has a listing price higher than the lowest sell order price. Therefore, that's how you know it doesn't have capital.