Ank, I know how you feel. I suffered my single largest loss ever - 8.4 billion ISK - in just the same way. It was back in June of 2009, a busy Sunday in Jita and market order entry lag was almost unbearable. You could key in an order, leave to go get a beer, and still see the digits loading into the order entry window, one.... by.... one... when you returned. I was trying to enter an order to buy 20,000 units of Ferrogel, then trading at around 47,000 per unit. I thought I had keyed in a buy price of 47,040 per unit and hit Enter (yea, I know, stupid me for hitting Enter), but the window showed only 4704. After a reasonable pause, I keyed another 0 and hit Enter. Of course, the extra zero then finally registered along with two enters, so I never saw a warning screen. My order filled at a price of 470,400!

I petitioned this until I was blue in the face, on two grounds. First, extreme market lag had caused this order entry error. Second, on the point brought up by Dandro and others - that the order entry mechanic is grossly flawed. An order should be handled as a limit order to buy (or sell) at the stated price or better. A buy order at a price higher than currenlty listed sell orders should fill in layers, at the asked price of each outstanding sell order in queue up to the limit price. Same in reverse for sell orders. Had that mechanic been in place, my order would have filled in several increments at prices ranging from 48,000 to 49,000 per unit.

Most of you will be pleased to hear that CCP stood its ground, never giving in to my reimbursement request, despite my lengthy and (I thought) well-presented arguments, until I finally grew weary of the battle. There was no acknowledgement of extreme lag, and the mechanics were deemed to be working as intended.

Fortunately, my loss was only 8.4 billion....

I disagree a bit. I think a buy offer should be just that... an offer to buy at the price set by the buyer, and filled for exactly the price submitted in the order.

SH

Proof that market UI is a JOKE and needs updating by CCP, functionality and performance wise.

Nope. I disagree and submitted a bugreport about that problem.

In any case, not every mistake you make is someone else's (like CCP's) fault.

50 mil or 500 mil doesn't make a difference. The code may or may not be sloppy but the solution already exists: Use Tab, not Enter.

Use TAB

Not ENTER.

Poor bullet proofing is always the developer's fault, always.

The problem you have described is an intended game feature or function, and not a bug.

I'm a new player and immediately noticed this as an obvious market bug, even if it was this case 9 years long..

Except that CCP aren't producing a finance-management program; they're producing a game. It's not their job to make sure that no-one using their software loses money.

They've given you an easy method to see what amount you've entered by nicely formatting the numbers, and they've included a pop-up saying 'are you sure you want to do this?'. If you still enter a ridiculous price, then the correct response from the game is to assume that you know what you're doing - or do you also think that CCP should prevent people putting skill-books up for 100x the NPC price hoping to catch a lazy buyer, or buying up all the stock in a region and relisting at five times the price in an attempt to manipulate the market?

Every time someone types "straw man" or "straw man argument" it makes me want to projectile diarrhea.

As a dev myself I'm telling people "Its not a bug, its a feature" too. It's my main excuse too

I'm a new player and immediately noticed this as an obvious market bug, even if it was this case 9 years long. Everbody who trades on real markets knows that.

Equivocation does not make a valid argument.

Nice strawman man, here look, a match. Fire burns, straw dies.
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It is a strawman, call em like I see them. Sorry that you do not like it.

It's fairly clear that the intended result of carelessness or stupidity in EVE is losing all your stuff - generally to another player who was less careless.

Then what, exactly, do you want the Devs to do?

Equivocating twice, with the same argument, doesn't magically make it any more valid. Try again.

A bubble sort and a loop to create a limit order is a simple matter. And again, you are arguing points not related to the issue.

The default behavior should act as a limit order. Pretty simple. If you really need to ability to place more 1 trit for a billion ISK orders, I'm sure someone will accommodate you.

My mistake, I misunderstood your previous post.

Perimeter Stargate