This poor guy sold a million plus units, via his mobile, for $14 a pop and worked out how it probably happened

"tried to sell at 142 but I'm guessing I entered 14w. I have to hold w to type 2. Unfortunately the game doesn't give any kind of error when a letter is entered, it just processes any numbers before the letter"

So my suggestion is to code in an error message when a letter appears with a number when a mobile is being used to access the game.

No idea how hard that would be to do. But if it is easy then it must surely be worth doing.

This would break existing functionality though.

You can use the letters "k" and "m" to denote 1000 and 1000000. That is, you can buy "200k" units and sell "5.32m" bushels to buy 200000 units and sell 5320000 bushels respectively.

I suppose you could check for any letters that is not "k" or "m".

is there not a way to make the keyboard on your phone automatically load to numbers when you press the screen to access the box to insert the number as opposed to the alphabet character set?

if i worded that horrendously then i apologize

Yes, you can specify if a textbox is numeric, but it is dependent on the browser you are using to implement it.

Using a number textbox would be annoying though, I would rather type "250k" than having to type 250000 and count the number of 0s to double check.

We can put 250k in And it'll put in 250,000?

Yes. Been a feature for a long time.

Awesome, never knew. Thanks

yeah, i did few times that mistake on last set in ffa that i bought upto 9.9m bushels instead 999999 bushels.

fairly useful function to be able to use k and m

fairly lazy function... NUMBERS IS HARD!

Thanks for submitting this furious. Although I'll be more careful in the future, it would be nice to not have to worry about it.

yea, as Xinhuan said, it's tricky, given we have those k & m shortcut tricks