Depressing Wrong Button Failure Club
By
Chad Gulzow-Man,
Posted on: 2012-03-12 23:07 in The Market and Inventions
500M is a pittance...?
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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For a L53 Nuc, yes.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
500M is a pittance...?
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I'm curious what you were trying to sell it for? Generally screwups like that are due to too many or too few zeroes. But you couldn't have been trying to sell it for 5 billion, and 50 million doesn't make any sense either.
I'm guessing 500M was the lowest bid. May have clicked on something like 180,000,000 ? I don't know what the actual price was.
I make LESS mistakes because I end my sale prices with a nonzero number (so "a billion" is 1,000,000,908) but I still make SOME mistakes.
Go out there and make enough money that you can cry into a pillow stuffed with hundred dollar bills.
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I wasn't trying to sell it at all. I had put in 45,000,000 on an ATO, and intended to list a 2nd ATO for 45m. Somehow I accidentally clicked and listed the Nuc instead. |
Originally Posted by firespray
I'm curious what you were trying to sell it for? Generally screwups like that are due to too many or too few zeroes. But you couldn't have been trying to sell it for 5 billion, and 50 million doesn't make any sense either.
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I would not have sold it even had I known there was a bid for 2B waiting.
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Did you by any chance have prompts enabled, and get a prompt to confirm the 45,000,000? (As a regular market user I'd be a little surprised if you have those prompts enabled, but one never knows.)|
Originally Posted by Plasma
I wasn't trying to sell it at all. I had put in 45,000,000 on an ATO, and intended to list a 2nd ATO for 45m. Somehow I accidentally clicked and listed the Nuc instead.
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What I have concluded is that when you click on the "OK" for such prompts, and the market interface is under the prompt popup, the mouse click to accept moves the market cursor on the underlying market interface, which can result in selling the wrong item. Before we could consistently disable the prompts, I came to always cancel any transaction that gave me a prompt, disabled the prompt, and resubmitted the transaction without one. After that, I never once mysteriously sold the wrong items.
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I believe the way the game is coded, it's not depressing the button that causes the problem... it's releasing it.
Like a land mine!
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I almost paid 500 million for 50 million yesterday, luckily there was no stock available when I bid. Looked down and saw how much inf I had and was able to cancel the bid. /phew
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I definitely do have prompts enabled, and I did get a confirm.|
Originally Posted by UberGuy
Did you by any chance have prompts enabled, and get a prompt to confirm the 45,000,000? (As a regular market user I'd be a little surprised if you have those prompts enabled, but one never knows.)
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Of course, the confirm has saved me from an extra zero from time to time. Are you on a Mac by chance? I haven't seen this happen on a PC, but when I use my mac to play, I have some weird stuff happen. Like I'll right-click a recipe in my recipe inventory, and it will highlight a recipe that is 2 higher than the one I clicked. Then I'll do it again and it will highlight correctly. Easy way to accidentally delete a valuable recipe instead of a temp power.
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Nope, I'm on a PC.|
Originally Posted by Plasma
Of course, the confirm has saved me from an extra zero from time to time. Are you on a Mac by chance? I haven't seen this happen on a PC, but when I use my mac to play, I have some weird stuff happen. Like I'll right-click a recipe in my recipe inventory, and it will highlight a recipe that is 2 higher than the one I clicked. Then I'll do it again and it will highlight correctly. Easy way to accidentally delete a valuable recipe instead of a temp power.
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I had the interface sell or list the wrong item three times, every one after I got a confirmation prompt. I started studiously canceling bids with prompts and I never had it happen again.
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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
You know, I've never had this happen before. But one time, I did look, and I had something like a piece of rare salvage listed for 400M. It "stealing" the post click from a purple might have explained that. I just assumed I was rushed and not paying attention...
ouch. I've seen these babies go for 2.5-3bil easily.
(something that should never touch the market)
on another note, looks like someone dropped a 53 Cyto on the market and lost it for 855mil (another oooouch.)
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I noticed something weird over the weekend that might have contributed to this problem. I was slotting enhancements on a character, and I kept having trouble because the cursor was grabbing the enhancement in the tray slot just to the right of the one I wanted.
For example, I would have a damage enhancement to the right of a defense enhancement, and when I tried to slot the defense enhancement, the power would be grayed out and then I'd realize I grabbed the damage enhancement. At first I thought I just wasn't paying attention, but after it happened to me 5 or 6 separate times, I started to suspect there was a problem either with my mouse or the user interface.
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I probably have most of you beat for bad misclicks.
Was bulk bidding purples to flip, was probably more tired than I should've been. Bidding on damage purples, I tend to just type the first two numbers, then hold down zero until it stops. Ran out of decent damage sets to bid, still had a couple billion sitting idle, decided to check the mez sets. Found a Fortunata piece with a promising margin, hit 1, 5, held down zero, hit bid.
Oh, snap.
I bought a Fortunata Hypnosis recipe for 1.5B.
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Well, both are big, big losses... but sadly, I can't get the nuc back even if I'm willing to pay 2B to get it.
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Originally Posted by LineNoise
I bought a Fortunata Hypnosis recipe for 1.5B. |
You got 500,000,000 influence from the Consignment House.
You paid 47,750,000 to the Consignment House.
You paid 2,250,000 to the Consignment House.