Same here, also without getting forced out. Ch 11 Veteran at 65 got right amount ~650K with with 25% boost running Ch 12 Veteran (dinged 66 during it) got ~10% Ch 13 Story at 66 got ~10% Pretty irritating.

This would be awesome. I'd say that there should be some way to get influence on the legacy companions so you don't have to sacrifice efficiency for the fun. I would definitely pay a lot of CC to unlock this.

Agreed. For crew skills sorting by influence is the only presentation that makes sense. For alliance window you could imagine other ideas (e.g. most recently used like the character selection window), but influence sorting would be much better than current.

Price them at 4 times the premium (green) ones so that cost per influence point is the same. I'm all for bigger changes to make the influence grind less bad, especially for large legacies, but this would be a tiny change (just adding some already existing items to a vendor) which cuts the amount of mindless clicking by 75%, but doesn't change the credit sink aspect.

Actually the sort doesn't work. If you search again (e.g. narrow or adjust your search) after sorting on unit price, the column will still have the arrow indicating it is sorted, but it won't actually be sorted. If you notice that it isn't sorted, and click it to get a sort, it will now be sorted descending price. Which of course is exactly what the scammers wan't since their prices will look like the lowest. Fixing the basic error in formatting would be more effective in preventing the scammer type mistakes, but fixing the sorting order bug should also be done since it will encourage smaller order mistakes. One again, this thread is about the weaknesses in the UI that enable these scams. Saying that it also requires someone to be acting hastily to not notice the trick does not invalidate the point. Clearly people are being tricked often enough that its worth the time of the scammers to keep relisting hundreds or thousands of items with these prices.

Ratajack's posting is not a good analogy in many ways. Nobody was trying to trick him into misattributing those quotes, and he suffered no harm from his mistake other than the embarrassment of being seen making a careless mistake while raging about how people should be more careful. I couldn't resist having a laugh, but that is not meant to be a meaningful comparison. My post is about the flaw in the UI of the GTN prices, and the way that flaw facilitates some unscrupulous people in tricking others who are purchasing things in a rush. The suggested change is trivial to make and clearly superior. This kind of "how do we present numbers/money" stuff is intro level UI design.

So if the consequences of this were that you lost all your credits or your account is banned for slander, you'd be OK with that right? You'd have no reason to complain. It was your inattentiveness after all. I mean you had to go quote posts that weren't mine (twice!) and put them in your reply, then hit submit reply. I can't bring myself to overuse CAPS to make this actually look like one of your posts, so perhaps the sarcasm will be lost.

Lots of threads going on various solutions to and complaints about the GTN scammers problem., but I think just fixing the formatting will eliminate most of the problem. The unit price column on the GTN makes some poor choices in presenting the values. The data is presented left justified and with an irregular placement of the decimal point. Since comma and decimal point are easy to confuse in this font, these UI choices are exploited by a few scammers to trick people. For example the following is a list of unit prices that one could see on the GTN: $666,667 $666.75 Money values should not be presented this way. For example, look at a bank statement, or even what happens in Excel or Libre office when you designate a column as money. This kind of data should always be presented with place values aligned because users will intuitively expect this. $666,667.00 ___ $666.75 (underscores would be spaces but forum will eat them) The same change should apply to total price as well, though the presence of a fractional part makes the issue particularly severe in the unit price column. This simple change would eliminate the ability of scammers to exploit the unit price to trick people. Originally posted some of this on customer service but it really belongs here.

The real source of the problem is the poor formatting that makes this scam possible. Scammers can just keep making new characters so blocking any one character wouldn't be effective. Here is what we have today for unit prices: $666,667 $666.75 Here is what we'd have if it was formatted properly: $666,667.00 ___ $666.75 (using underscores since the forum will eat the spaces) It would be much harder to make a mistake if the data was just formatted correctly.

Just because this requires some lack of caution on the part of the victim, doesn't mean it isn't a scam. Most scams require some lack of caution by the victim. The intent of the seller is that someone will purchase something for ~1000x the going price by accident because nobody would pay that on purpose, and they choose the details of the price (i.e. selecting digits to look like a repeating fractional part getting rounded off) to maximize the chance that someone will make that mistake. If that doesn't meet your definition of scam, you need a remedial English class. Bioware could easily prevent most cases of this by formatting the prices correctly. Any bank statement or other legitimate presentation of money values will align the place values, and will present a uniform number of digits past the decimal. Here is what we have today for unit prices: $666,667 $666.75 Here is what we'd have if it was formatted properly: $666,667.00 ___ $666.75 (using underscores since the forum will eat the spaces) It would be much harder to make a mistake if the data was just formatted correctly.