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180 day auctions? How?
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Jacob Stiller
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-11-30 03:32:13 UTC
Started to seriously look at contracts after CCP gave us these nifty implants that can't be sold on the normal market. I've noticed that some people have 180 day auctions active yet the maximum duration available to me is only 1 week. How is this possible?
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#2 - 2011-11-30 12:34:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Destination SkillQueue
As far as I know it shoudn't be possible. If I recall correctly the max duration for any contract is 2 weeks and 1 week for auctions.

EDIT: I just checked the auctions for the new implants and I don't see any abnormal contracts. What contracts had this 180d time?
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#3 - 2011-11-30 13:29:36 UTC
I've seen it too. Was an action contract for 180 days starting at 50 mil orso with no buyout.
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#4 - 2011-11-30 13:45:35 UTC
Pak Narhoo wrote:
I've seen it too. Was an action contract for 180 days starting at 50 mil orso with no buyout.


I'm mainly curious if it was something that was only possible during the expansion deployment fuss and was one of the things hotfixed or is it still possible to do.
Jacob Stiller
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-30 21:30:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Jacob Stiller
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
As far as I know it shoudn't be possible. If I recall correctly the max duration for any contract is 2 weeks and 1 week for auctions.

EDIT: I just checked the auctions for the new implants and I don't see any abnormal contracts. What contracts had this 180d time?


Noticed it for some auctions for this implant CCP gave us. You should be able to browse contracts with no filters and then sort by time left to find those that have months remaining. Want to make sure that this isn't possible under valid game mechanics before declaring it a bug.

Edit: Ok, that suggestion didn't work as well as I thought it would. The longest contract I see for Hardwiring - Genolution Core Augmentation CA-1 today is 38 days. Not as outrageous as what I saw last night but still impossible AFAIK.
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#6 - 2011-12-01 18:11:41 UTC
NPC contract would be my guess. No limit on contracts put out by CCP Shocked
Jacob Stiller
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-03 21:55:42 UTC
All of the contracts are now normal lengths so either CCP corrected the error or all of those contracts happened to get filled.