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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2008.08.29 16:42:00 -
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Yeah happened to me and I blew 30m on brokerage. It happens, that just how it goes unfortunately. Don't play tired, you lose things, in PvP and on the market basically.
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Ceola Tyn'Vile
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:19:00 -
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The other thread on this page was me, but I did not sell anything at a low price but instead modified an order to be 128 billion and paid 115 million in broker fees...
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Piru Industrial
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:28:00 -
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Quote: # A warning message now pops up when trying to modify a market order more than 100% above the regional average.
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:32:00 -
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Originally by: Piru Industrial
Quote: # A warning message now pops up when trying to modify a market order more than 100% above the regional average.
And I'm going to bet there is no way to disable this warning?
*sighs*
A change that hurts people who took their time and did everything right in order to help those who are too lazy to do the same. I love rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior, don't you?
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Piru Industrial
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:42:00 -
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Edited by: Piru Industrial on 29/08/2008 17:42:59
Originally by: Shadarle
Originally by: Piru Industrial
Quote: # A warning message now pops up when trying to modify a market order more than 100% above the regional average.
And I'm going to bet there is no way to disable this warning?
*sighs*
A change that hurts people who took their time and did everything right in order to help those who are too lazy to do the same. I love rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior, don't you?
just out of curiosity, how often make your buy orders hundreds of percent higher than the regional average? also under what circumstances. example plz i am curious.
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Treelox
Amarr Market Jihadist Revolutionary Party
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:45:00 -
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Originally by: Piru Industrial just out of curiosity, how often make your buy orders hundreds of percent higher than the regional average? also under what circumstances. example plz i am curious.
While I dont do it with buy orders, I do it sometimes with sell orders. Since sometimes someone has manipulated the regional price down below where I think it should be.
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:46:00 -
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Originally by: Piru Industrial Edited by: Piru Industrial on 29/08/2008 17:42:59
Originally by: Shadarle
Originally by: Piru Industrial
Quote: # A warning message now pops up when trying to modify a market order more than 100% above the regional average.
And I'm going to bet there is no way to disable this warning?
*sighs*
A change that hurts people who took their time and did everything right in order to help those who are too lazy to do the same. I love rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior, don't you?
just out of curiosity, how often make your buy orders hundreds of percent higher than the regional average? also under what circumstances. example plz i am curious.
It actually occurs a lot more often than you might think. I can think of several off the top of my head from the last few days. But perhaps the reason you can't think of any is the best reason for me not to explain them, giving away valuable trading techniques is something I tend to dislike doing. I also know a few people will come here thinking I'm lying about this, but I'm sure at least a few people here do the exact same thing I do (I know because I compete with them).
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Piru Industrial
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Posted - 2008.08.29 17:47:00 -
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Originally by: Treelox
Originally by: Piru Industrial just out of curiosity, how often make your buy orders hundreds of percent higher than the regional average? also under what circumstances. example plz i am curious.
While I dont do it with buy orders, I do it sometimes with sell orders. Since sometimes someone has manipulated the regional price down below where I think it should be.
;)
sell orders are so 2006
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Treelox
Amarr Market Jihadist Revolutionary Party
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Posted - 2008.08.29 18:09:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle But perhaps the reason you can't think of any is the best reason for me not to explain them, giving away valuable trading techniques is something I tend to dislike doing. I also know a few people will come here thinking I'm lying about this, but I'm sure at least a few people here do the exact same thing I do (I know because I compete with them).
/me whistles innocently having no idea what Shadarle is talking about. --
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2008.08.29 18:20:00 -
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Originally by: Treelox /me whistles innocently having no idea what Shadarle is talking about.
Dammit, you stole my line. I was so going to whistle that!
To Shar -verb: 1 - To say what you mean. 2 - To say what it means. 3 - To say something mean. |
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Absimi Liard
Gallente Confederate Miners Union of Eve space weaponry and trade
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Posted - 2008.08.29 18:36:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral
Originally by: Treelox /me whistles innocently having no idea what Shadarle is talking about.
Dammit, you stole my line. I was so going to whistle that!
It is a good tune. But I think "I have no clue at all" is more of an ear-bug.

-abs
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Syath
Caldari Einherjar Rising Cry Havoc.
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Posted - 2008.08.29 18:40:00 -
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Honestly the more you update your orders the higher chance there is that you will screw up. Now statistically speaking if you were too not change your orders as much then it would be a lot less likely to happen. Therefore stop updating your orders every 3 minutes and buy a life :)
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Absimi Liard
Gallente Confederate Miners Union of Eve space weaponry and trade
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Posted - 2008.08.29 19:54:00 -
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Originally by: Syath Therefore stop updating your orders every 3 minutes and buy a life :)
I hear really bad things about Real Life (tm). It's a serious grind, leveling up takes forever. I hear the rewards you get for what you do are pretty poor as well.
Oh and death, seriously permanent, not even a normal skill-clone is available much less jump-clones.
Add in some very serious griefers and a load of folks who take the game altogether too seriously AND a bunch of such hard-core role-players that you can never, NEVER, get them to drop character.
Forget it.
Real Life (tm) is for the birds.
I'm sticking w. EVE.
-abs
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Treelox
Amarr Market Jihadist Revolutionary Party
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Posted - 2008.08.29 19:57:00 -
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^^/signed^^ --
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2008.08.29 19:59:00 -
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Originally by: Treelox
Originally by: Shadarle But perhaps the reason you can't think of any is the best reason for me not to explain them, giving away valuable trading techniques is something I tend to dislike doing. I also know a few people will come here thinking I'm lying about this, but I'm sure at least a few people here do the exact same thing I do (I know because I compete with them).
/me whistles innocently having no idea what Shadarle is talking about.
*waves hand in dismissive nature
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.30 00:14:00 -
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Originally by: Syath Honestly the more you update your orders the higher chance there is that you will screw up. Now statistically speaking if you were too not change your orders as much then it would be a lot less likely to happen. Therefore stop updating your orders every 3 minutes and buy a life :)
Going by that logic I should have made a mistake long ago.
But I still fail to see how people make such monumental mistakes with ISK.
I've made tiny mistakes twice. I sold items for 10,000 instead of 100,000 and another for 1.2 mil instead of 12 mil. Each was a single item. Each was because it was extremely late, I was drunk, and I didn't care to take my time.
If I lost 10 billion in an order (which is easily possible with the items I trade) then so be it. It would be my own fault for having made the mistake. It's my punishment for being lazy or hasty. I wish more people would take responsibility for their actions these days instead of blaming everything on someone else.
If you drink hot coffee and burn your lips it isn't McDonald's fault!
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Mike'P
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Posted - 2008.08.31 00:06:00 -
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Originally by: Kazzac Elentria
And do you pipe up when someone makes a mistake in your favor and buys a hammerhead II for 8mil instead of 800k
...nah didn't think so.
No, I don't, because I've made the same errors, but I do tell them to petition it.
Contrary to the opinions of certain toons, I take issue with an interface that permits a new player to lose all of their *very hard earned* wealth by missing their backspace key and hitting the enter key instead - it's just bad. Reading the original post, you'll notice that a GM basically asked the OP to post here to create more traction for a dev to do something about it.
And I say again, from a roleplay point of view: if you have to pay a broker, I think it is reasonable to expect that broker to interject if you do something that makes no sense.
If there was an option to bypass the broker, fair enough - but there isn't.
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.31 00:21:00 -
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Originally by: Mike'P
Originally by: Kazzac Elentria
And do you pipe up when someone makes a mistake in your favor and buys a hammerhead II for 8mil instead of 800k
...nah didn't think so.
No, I don't, because I've made the same errors, but I do tell them to petition it.
Contrary to the opinions of certain toons, I take issue with an interface that permits a new player to lose all of their *very hard earned* wealth by missing their backspace key and hitting the enter key instead - it's just bad. Reading the original post, you'll notice that a GM basically asked the OP to post here to create more traction for a dev to do something about it.
And I say again, from a roleplay point of view: if you have to pay a broker, I think it is reasonable to expect that broker to interject if you do something that makes no sense.
If there was an option to bypass the broker, fair enough - but there isn't.
I think you must work for Microsoft.
"Are you sure you want to delete this file?"
"Are you absolutely certain you wish to delete this file?"
"I don't think you really want to delete this file, hit yes if I'm right and you don't want to delete it and hit no if you don't want to not delete this file"
"Seriously, you are stupid if you want to delete this file, are you stupid?"
Perhaps if we implemented something along these lines lazy people would make less mistakes?
Actually, the more safeguard questions you implement the MORE likely you are to make a mistake because people get accustomed to just hitting 'Y' or <Enter> through all of them without even looking. This is why you have to be very careful in interface design. Only add error/confirmation boxes when they are actually needed, otherwise they just get ignored and serve no purpose other than as an irritant.
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2008.08.31 01:12:00 -
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Now, now Shadarle, that example was a bit bombastic. No one is asking for double error trapping or some such. However there does need to be something that does avoid the all to common happenstance of accidental order entry. And the fact that it is a common non-idiotic accident is far more believable than your claim of having lost so little to it. I'm not saying you are lying but as you often say, you yourself can not be used as the example or litmus test of "average" or "normal" in Eve. (Mostly because your ego won't let you fall into those categories...  ) And I, like yourself, really hope there is a "disable" check box to the average error trap. But that hope, and fear, does not diminish the honest necessity this change is filling. Arguments to the contrary are just intellectually dishonest.
To Shar -verb: 1 - To say what you mean. 2 - To say what it means. 3 - To say something mean. |

Treelox
Amarr Market Jihadist Revolutionary Party
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Posted - 2008.08.31 01:22:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral However there does need to be something that does avoid the all to common happenstance of accidental order entry.
Less drinking?????
or
Less multi-tasking(running mutliple accounts at the same time)
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Nemi Lethal
Gallente DarkStar Armada
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Posted - 2008.08.31 01:28:00 -
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You know easiest way to take care of this problem I've witnessed in another game somewhere along my mmo playing I cant exactly remember which game it was but after every increase in the tenths place of what ever you were selling or buying the actual COLOR of the numbers would change. As in 1mil to 9mil would be green 10mil to 99mil would be yellow, etc etc.
If the color of your input would change color as you typed it in it would be easy at least too overcome a mistake. Now if they didnt add anything the easist way to never have this happen again is fairly simple.
Delete the entire denomination every single time you modify an order, your way more likely to screw up the decimal if you are backspacing over a current price then if you input the whole thing from scratch.
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.31 01:29:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral
Now, now Shadarle, that example was a bit bombastic. No one is asking for double error trapping or some such. However there does need to be something that does avoid the all to common happenstance of accidental order entry. And the fact that it is a common non-idiotic accident is far more believable than your claim of having lost so little to it. I'm not saying you are lying but as you often say, you yourself can not be used as the example or litmus test of "average" or "normal" in Eve. (Mostly because your ego won't let you fall into those categories...  ) And I, like yourself, really hope there is a "disable" check box to the average error trap. But that hope, and fear, does not diminish the honest necessity this change is filling. Arguments to the contrary are just intellectually dishonest.
I feel that if someone makes the mistake they deserve to lose the money. I am an EXTREMELY lazy person and I have not made the mistake more than a couple times on low cost items as I said. I am also generally quite impatient.
I do not, however, play drunk very often nor do I play drop dead tired very often. IMO if you do you should suffer the associated risks. I fail to see why anyone who plays the game correctly should be punished with added popups. Without the ability to turn these off I think it's a bad idea to add a popup. If you can turn it off then that's fine I guess, though I'd prefer there were no handlebars.
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Nemi Lethal
Gallente DarkStar Armada
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Posted - 2008.08.31 01:45:00 -
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I think it would be pretty safe to say, as a trader character who's entire gameplay is dicated by brokers fee's, order modifications and the like, there should be something established that could at least shield us from these costly mistakes as it is inevitable from a natural progression of a trader character is to take on more orders, more quantities and higher priced items.
1 additional 0 or missing a . here and then should not have the ability too wipe a characters entire wallet out under the right conditions, maybe you feel that way I just dont see how an honest mistake should beable too be as detrimental as it "could" be.
Myself personaly i've goofed up twice, each time I was in the process of modifying several orders and doing .01 isk undercutting, getting into a groove and then without catching myself forgetting to type that damned . key and pressing enter.
Then zoom off goes 100 some odd million to some random person that was in the right position at the time, 1 fellow trader gave a portion back, the other just remained silent.
Iam sure its happened way more then once and will continue too happen. The coding too add something to insure this could be prevented is just plain logical.
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2008.08.31 02:01:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle I feel that if someone makes the mistake they deserve to lose the money.
You know that I'm not exactly warm and cuddly either mate. I sincerely hope that CCP does put in a disable, REALLY REALLY HOPE, but I'm also prepared if they do not. I do think idiocy is its own rewards and any accommodation to remove the learning experience is not prudent imho. We both agree that Darwinism should live and romp throughout Eve. But this error doesn't just happen due to idiocy. That catch is the only reason I'm being philosophical about the whole affair. I just think that all training wheels should be removable (thus I don't like Macs).
To Shar -verb: 1 - To say what you mean. 2 - To say what it means. 3 - To say something mean. |

Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.31 02:11:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral But this error doesn't just happen due to idiocy.
I agree, laziness, hastiness, drunkenness, tiredness are all reasons too. But none of these remove the blame from the person doing the action for whichever reason.
If people slowed down and concentrated they would not make this mistake.
I tend to recall you agreeing completely with me when it was Taikun who was arguing for there to be safeguards all over, now that it is someone else you seem to be on the other side of this. Or perhaps you simply have changed your opinion over time. Either way, I discount the lag factor as a reason because IMO lag does not cause this to happen. It's peoples hastiness that causes it to happen if they don't want to wait for the lag. Thus the lag itself should be the thing fixed, not all the ancillary problems.
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2008.08.31 03:00:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle I tend to recall you agreeing completely with me when it was Taikun who was arguing for there to be safeguards all over, now that it is someone else you seem to be on the other side of this.
You are mistaken. I agreed with Taikun's point while disagreeing with Taikun himself. (You will also find my immense embarrassment at agreeing with him while seeing the copious amounts of vitriol that he posted in that thread.) The problem is you simply do not care to admit that it can be an honest mistake that is in part due to a fundamental flaw in the interface. You'd rather just call everyone some form of negative stereotype (all not Shadarle) and blame them for something that quite simply may not be their fault. I won't even touch upon your convenience bias over this matter. It has not been changed, you may find things are not as you fear. Granted they may be worse but at this point tough. It is happening regardless. I just wonder if someone ran out of beer and decided to fix this matter while waiting for more.
To Shar -verb: 1 - To say what you mean. 2 - To say what it means. 3 - To say something mean. |

Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.31 03:05:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral The problem is you simply do not care to admit that it can be an honest mistake that is in part due to a fundamental flaw in the interface.
What honest mistake can cause this again? I've not seen a single one listed or perhaps I missed it...
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Shar Tegral
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Posted - 2008.08.31 03:11:00 -
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Originally by: Shadarle What honest mistake can cause this again? I've not seen a single one listed or perhaps I missed it...
Using the numpad, accidental strike of the enter key as you are going to insert a decimal. It is a reasonable error imho. Much akin to stapler boy's original position (though funnier indeed) and is the only reason I allow myself to consider this as not a bad thing. For someone like you, the truth is that it is just one more click. Remember, your the guy who spends 10 minutes in eve for your billions. What's an extra click when it prevents (/neuters) accidents (claims)?
To Shar -verb: 1 - To say what you mean. 2 - To say what it means. 3 - To say something mean. |

Treelox
Amarr Market Jihadist Revolutionary Party
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Posted - 2008.08.31 03:38:00 -
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/me agreeing with everything shadarle has said in his last 4 or so above post --
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Shadarle
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Posted - 2008.08.31 03:54:00 -
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Originally by: Shar Tegral
Originally by: Shadarle Because it's human error and human error can cause any number of problem, you cannot possibly expect CCP to build in double checks for every possible human error or "honest mistakes" as you call them.
No I don't expect them to, never have. But does this mean all checks should be removed? While I joke about removing all safety labels from the world would depopulate the idiots pretty quickly... such a depopulation of Eve would simply be disastrous. So the essential truth is that CCP is satisfying the majority of its customers with a small feature while risking irking the ever so lovable you. Even you can do that math.
You are enjoying casting this as me being some super human with amazing abilities looking down at those less skilled than I. Not quite sure why, as I myself have always said I am actually a fairly lazy person who is hasty in my actions. I like spending as little time in game as possible. Thus why I feel that if someone like me, with all my flaws, can manage to not make a mistake then others who don't have my issues should be totally fine.
I just hate seeing "fixes" applied un-evenly. Why "fix" one thing if there are hundreds of other nearly identical things that could be "fixed". Clearly because it is stupid to try to change them all, thus it is stupid to change only one of them imo. Mostly because by "fix" I mean satisfy people who are not careful when they play and annoying those who are. It's never good to punish people who play by the rules and do things right, it causes people to grow unhappy and feel that they are being punished for others mistakes.
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