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Changes to the team Auction system for industry.
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Psyrelle

Perimeter Provisions

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#1 - 2014-10-24 10:30:23 UTC

My idea is to make a auction a real action.

Several times I have lost the auction on a team cause some in the last 1-2 sec bids slightly more than me.

My idea is to if someone bids in the last min of an auction it extends the auction with 1 min to allow for bidding war to exist.

Quite simple idea and would make a auction become an auction.

That or make it so if someone bids they can make a ceiling, if someone tries to bid over that ceiling your bid automatically goes up until you meet the max you want to bid.

Dangeresque Too

Pistols for Pandas

Likes received: 251

#2 - 2014-11-20 03:55:08 UTC

I will bump this if only because the current system, if you happen to be the current auction leader, the mechanic is such that you are nearly expected to try to snipe your own bid at the last second even if you are winning. Then it just becomes a guessing game of blindly throwing money at the auction when you have no idea how much money the other people trying to snipe the auction are bidding.

Mostly because this just happened to me, I was even doing my due diligence and staying up a few minutes late to make sure I won the auction. Refreshed the screen with like a couple sec to go, nothing changes, auction ends and the email says I lost... but the screen was just showing I was winning. Next time I will take a screenshot at the 1s mark.

This auction system is a mess and needs to be changed. Add a timer to the auction after the last bid so that the system can show everyone else interested that they just lost.

But until then I guess in order to get what I need I will have to join the sniping club and potentially waste a bunch of ISK that I may or may not have needed to spend on an auction because after it is over you can't see anything else other than who one and how much they spent.


Dangeresque Too Pistols for Pandas Likes received: 251	#3 - 2014-11-20 14:34:42 UTC No love for this it seems... guess we will just have to all participate in the Team Sniping mechanic instead of getting the system properly fixed.