Assembly Hall

I have searched the forums but couldn't find anything from CCP with regards to feedback about the Industry Teams Sniping mechanic they released. (aka Team Auctions) *updated to clarify for people that can't read apparently think this is for contract item auctions*

The current team auction system is terribad, not even an auction really, 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.

And 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 industry team 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. I know, I made the classic mistake of assuming this was an "auction" and actually bidding on it instead of just waiting and playing the snipe game.

This team 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 are no longer winning and have a chance to respond, instead of the screen showing they are winning until they see the email saying they lost instead. Or since the snipe game is just a very shortened private/sealed silent auction then just make it full out silent sealed auction. Either solution would be better than what is currently in place. This has come up in real life countless times, it is not a new issue, and by no means a new solution. Implementing this with the design flaw that allows/encourages sniping is a mark of either bad QA, inattentiveness to requested feedback, or complete lack of regard for feedback even after release.

But please get this fixed.

Also: we need a true "max bid" value put in, so we can tell the system to put a bid in, and auto bid any other bids on that team until X amount, you know, like every other auction system in existence today.

If you want to say this is exactly like ebay, well its not. Ebay has a max bid feature, this doesn't. The max bid feature helps prevent those last minute snipes as if you try to just penny war the last bid at the last millisecond but the other guy's max bid is infact much higher than the current highest bid, you still lose.

Good try though, but please do some more homework. And server ticks aren't in question here, the foundation of the auction system is, please stay on topic.

You talking about talking about industry team auctions or item contract auctions?

Pretty sure the first sentence of the original post says Team Auctions... but your last post about inflating item pricing? And you can't go into debt in eve, the system protects against it unfortunately (well you can if you are bad and CCP takes away your iskies).

And team auctions don't have a buy out, so again, please follow the good old eve mantra and read and do your homework.

Maybe you didn't read either.... "bid up their own item"? Why exactly would you do that on an Industry Team Auction?

So I'll say it again, this is for the Industry Team Auctions, not item contract auctions.