Astral Diamond mistake paths

nedruod

There are a few ways in which it is possible to spend Astral Diamonds accidentally, which I feel additional protections would benefit the player base.

First, is in the astral diamond exchange. If you are bidding on a large number of things, it's plausible you may click Buy Out when you intend to Bid. There is a confirmation and that's fine. What I find a problem though is that there are items posted with prices well above what it would cost to purchase items from the AH. Why are these here? My best assumption is they are there just to swallow misclicks. Items that are available from AH should have their buy out price capped at the AH price.

In addition, in professions, you're offered the ability to "Finish Now". Again yes there is a confirmation, but on mobile devices because of various other quirks in the UI, it becomes fairly easy to have your click cached and confirm unintentionally. I'd prefer an option to simply disable Finish Now entirely. I expect the majority of the users would agree with me.

The purpose of these suggestions is not to suggest the game needs to protect users from themselves in all cases, but that in these cases I've suggested that the ratio of intentional to accidental is astonishingly low. The second change is very easy to implement, and the first not much harder (though you might be tempted to complicate some by covering zen based purchases too).

Thank you

frishter

People use the ah to share ad to one another. For example, an artifact drops and instead of winner takes all, the group decides to split the profit between them. They then use the ah to pay the others their share. You can't really ask for more than a confirmation window, just pay attention. You'd need to misclick twice in order to do something by mistake.