Where's all my Palladium gone?
- Thread starter McDark
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Well, yes - depending on how you expressed your support request.
Because the bug is not the sell order remaining active, but the fact the sell order is not properly signaled as being active with proper color marker.
Note that you would be a lot less likely to be raided if you weren't uploading your own carrier data to the third-party websites that the public masses are using to search for the best deal...
It's one thing to make a mistake and another to broadcast it to everyone that could possibly take advantage of it.
It's one thing to make a mistake and another to broadcast it to everyone that could possibly take advantage of it.
Palladium goes like grass thru a goose right now. Yesterday, I shipped Palladium in a long-forgotten bywater system for about an hour when suddenly, a hollow dot appeared in Open. Yelling 'Once this gets dry, move over to the other starport!' And so it was. It took 30mins to have 2x20k Palladium resources completely drained. And the eerie thing is, there was nobody in Open except me and not other carriers than mine.
O7,
O7,
Ooooouch. That sucks
It was in a good cause - enabling the CMDR doing the unloading to be able to afford a carrier. He bought it a couple of hours ago.Ooooouch. That sucks
Steve
Well no, you can't sell something you don't have so it makes perfect sense that you can't set a sell order if you don't have the item. The problem is that if you did have items to sell, but then transfer them to your ship (rather than sell), the sell order stays but is hidden. As far as I am aware you'll see it again when you restock, but you would need to check the FC market.
You can set a buy order on items you don't have. So logically there isn't an issue. FD just need to clear any sell orders if stock level reaches zero.
No, no - they just need to mark them as Export Orders even when there is no stock as in keep the Green Triangle and the text effect Up even when the stock is zero... this is the actual bug
Well, that's a crock. Nobody would intentionally design it to work that way.Update 2: After asking support whether they consider this a feature or a bug, the answer is, "The buy and sell order system are functioning as intended".
So there you go. It's a feature!
I don't recall if it makes a difference whether you clear out the stock by selling or by transferring but it matters not, because it CAN happen. And the simple truth is that if you end up with zero stock and a zombie sell order, you are quite likely (as many have found out the hard way) to believe the sell order is GONE. How FD can claim that's working as intended is beyond me.
Interesting. Logically it does make sense, though. You just have to remember to check if you previously had a sell order when you restock.Update 2: After asking support whether they consider this a feature or a bug, the answer is, "The buy and sell order system are functioning as intended".
So there you go. It's a feature!
I suspect you won't be caught out by this again. E: D does have some harsh lessons.
Yes, but only if you set a sell order in the first place.
Update 2: After asking support whether they consider this a feature or a bug, the answer is, "The buy and sell order system are functioning as intended".
So there you go. It's a feature!
Indeed
The buy and sell order system is functioning as intended.
The bug is not displaying the Green Triangle marker for Sell orders with 0 stock
Why is that a bug? A sell order with zero stock doesn't make sense.
Sounds like that IS the bug...
It does make sense.
For example if you keep exporting the same commodities (a miner for example, or someone selling mission reward commodities).
You may not want to reset your Sell orders every time (there are quite many mission reward commodities for example)
So you will just restock them
Without the marker showing Sell orders for 0 stock materials, you're left with guessing what stuff you just run out of stock... or to check the market.json file
That's not a bug, though.It does make sense.
For example if you keep exporting the same commodities (a miner for example, or someone selling mission reward commodities).
You may not want to reset your Sell orders every time (there are quite many mission reward commodities for example)
So you will just restock them
Without the marker showing Sell orders for 0 stock materials, you're left with guessing what stuff you just run out of stock... or to check the market.json file
It is, because the sell order is still active, even tho i just run out of stock.
And if it's active, it needs to be marked accordingly in the Commodity market screen, with a green triangle.
So don't place any orders at all, currently. Otherwise, it's Hordes of Locusts and you hardly can predict the outcome.
Sitting with 15k t of Palladium next to the Orodruin or how it's named and will deliver each and every ton myself, that is
O7,
Sitting with 15k t of Palladium next to the Orodruin or how it's named and will deliver each and every ton myself, that is
O7,
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It does make sense.
For example if you keep exporting the same commodities (a miner for example, or someone selling mission reward commodities).
You may not want to reset your Sell orders every time (there are quite many mission reward commodities for example)
So you will just restock them
Without the marker showing Sell orders for 0 stock materials, you're left with guessing what stuff you just run out of stock... or to check the market.json file
And a last argument...
The Bartender market is actually functioning properly
Notice the Zero Stock for Opinion Polls but the Green Triangle Showing the Sell order is active and i just need to restock those (or stop the order if i never intend to sell them again)
Only the Commodity Market visual indication of Zero Stock Sell Orders is bugged.
