As I was bidding on some red shard today, I made the mistake of bidding very high by accident (I bid 3030crown on 10red shard because of lag issues). I clearly didn't want to bid near this much on 10 red shard, but after I hit bid it was too late. All I'm asking for is that there is some kind of optional prompt that is turned on by default that asks the bidder if they're sure they want to bid the current amount. I'm obviously going to be a little more cautious now, so it probably won't happen again anyways, but I feel like this could happen to someone else.
Auction House: Bidding Prompt
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 13:14
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 14:46
#2
@Asukalanforum
Torquey-Rocket's not saying that there should be a way to cancel bids. He's saying that there should be a prompt like when you want to learn a recipe, but it would say something along the lines of "Are you sure that you want to bid X crowns on this item?" and then you would say Yes or No.
I think this would be nice because it's pretty annoying when lag makes you type more numbers than you intend.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 15:38
#3
what if i never make that mistake
then option to turn on/off because a prompt may get really annoying when i'm bidding on many different items
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 15:42
#4
@Juances
Well yea, there
@Juances
Well yea, there should obviously exist an option to disable that, just how you can disable the prompt asking if you really want to learn a recipe or drop a vial and such :p
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:09
#5
I honestly never noticed that
I honestly never noticed that you could disable/enable prompts in the Options until after I posted this. Now it seems like it wouldn't be that big of a deal adding another one, which I feel is just as important as the others. Thank you Arilys for clearing things up here.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:55
#6
All I'm asking for is that
All I'm asking for is that there is some kind of optional prompt that is turned on by default that asks the bidder if they're sure they want to bid the current amount.
Having "are you sure?" prompts that show up all the time is bad user interface design. People just get in a habit of clicking "yes".
On the other hand, if the prompt only shows up when there is a good chance that you made a mistake, an not show up when things are probably fine, then it can improve things a lot. For example, if the prompt only showed up when you were raising the bid by more than 50%, that would be better. It would catch the worst typos, while not getting in the way of normal bidding too much.
Better still would be for the game to track the average sale price over the last several days for each product and only give a warning when your bid was more than 10% over that price. (Using a moving average would help reduce the system load of keeping track of the average.) The system probably couldn't help out when you are bidding on item with UVs, but for just about everything else, it could be a big help. The same average could be used to warn sellers when their starting bid and/or BIN price are out of whack.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:04
#7
Actually, having a prompt for
Actually, having a prompt for the 'buy now' would be nice too. I've accidentally bought something when I meant to bid on it once.
What Algol is suggesting would be pretty cool, but I doubt they'd do something so complicated since SK is meant to be a quick game you can open up and play within half an hour.
For bidding/buying propmts...I have mixed feelings, since I buy/bid so much that seeing those things would be extremely annoying, but if I turn them off, then they can't prevent the goof ups I do every so often. Unless something like Algol's 10% above average thing is implemented, I doubt such prompts would be useful, at least for me.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:21
#8
Ok, how about this- if you
Ok, how about this- if you bid over 5X(or 10X or something like that) as much as the current, it prompts you with a "You sure???" message. A buy now prompt for items over 1-2K CR would work nicely as well.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:50
#9
I really don't mind the more
I really don't mind the more complex ideas here, but my initial suggestion was a simple fix that could be very easily implemented. It's not that I think these other ideas are too complicated, I assume the more complex the idea is, the less likely Three Rings will add it unless there are lots of people asking for it. That being said, I'm definitely on the bandwagon for this. I'm also for a "Buy Now" prompt.
I understand that prompts can be annoying. They aren't for everyone and that's why you have the option to turn them off. If you goof up afterwards, it's because you decided that the stress from a goof up was not equal to that from a repetitive prompt. It's really not until you experience a rather devastating mistake that you learn to accept most prompts.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:53
#10
Why dont they do like eBay
Why dont they do like eBay where you simply put your maximum and it bids for you? That way you don't have to worry about paying 1000 crowns more than you need to.
that could provide an glitch that could be abused. You put item on auction. Then people bid it. You want to get more then you create alt to get price go up. If your alt price wont get overbid, you just cancell it. If it gets overbid you just exploited game mechanics to gain profit.
Besides, have you ever seen single auction website which allows customer to cancell his bid?