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[Proposal] Fix to auction contracts-minimum bid increment

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Zakarumit CZ
Zakarum Industries
Forgers United
#1 - 2013-02-10 09:52:52 UTC
Greetings.
I have got a proposal I havent seen anywhere else but I think it could make life much easier to many people, starting from traders and ending with anyone else.
Currently, when you setup an ingame auction, minimum bid increment is automatically set as 10% of starting bid. This can cause great troubles in some situations:
Model situation-you want to sell something expensive:
-You either set starting bid reasonable (NPC price or manufacturing cost perhaps) but that makes minimum bid increments too high to make the auctions interesting (with starting bid in billions we are talking about hundreds of millions in increment-usually so high that 1 bid is maximum people are willing to pay and that basically ruins the auction)

-You set starting bid really low (lets say below NPC or manufacturing cost), which makes minimum bid increment reasonable, but you also risk ending in loss, if there wont be anyone insane enough to bid a lot (common case)

My fix proposal is to make minimum bid increment a normal field you need to fill in when creating an auction contract, thus you can both setup reasonale starting bid and reasonable bid increments.

Thanks for consideration.
Mag's
Azn Empire
#2 - 2013-02-10 10:00:44 UTC
Sounds fair.

Maybe the field would allow you to set it from 1% to 10%, or even 15%.

It's been some time since I've had dealings with these. Seems odd they haven't done this already.

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Zakarumit CZ
Zakarum Industries
Forgers United
#3 - 2013-02-10 19:24:49 UTC
Yes, indeed. Even the possibility to set the minimum bid increment in range 1-15% would be very nice. Seems more work than allowing players to set it as they wish tho Smile It shouldnt be a big hassle to code it at all-the bid increment field is here, we just need to make it fillable by players with specific value.
Jane Travelstar
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-02-12 02:00:25 UTC
Even lowering the auto-min-bid to 5% is reasonable enough.

Works good on other games with a market construct in them.