05-25-2006 19:27
The new market buy order, is now triggering as the default level for all people on the 'basic' sell interface, and it is *significantly* lower than these same people were getting just 2 days ago via the same interface guidelines...

I've been watching for the last day as innocent sellers have been loosing tens to hundreds of dollars a trade, and potentially *thousands* of dollars a day, combined, to 'instant sell' without realizing they are facing prices at times more than 20% below the current market rate.

Something really needs to be done about the interface so that the least experienced people, are not given the biggest shaft via this new system.

relevant discussion budding here:
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But basically the 'default' option for the 'basic' lindex interface needs to show what you will get between sell it now, and a regular market sell at the current market sell rate, and allow people to CHOOSE one, or the other, with a simple button press... or something else equally blunt, so that people who are attempting to just try and pay their tier with some basic income in game, are not getting terribly ripped off.

I won't begin to comment on my personal opinions on buy orders as an economic force, that kind of discussion has another place and time, this is just a *BASIC* GUI problem that is costing the more basic users of the lindex an awful lot of money that they should at least be made aware of.
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wash, rinse, repeat