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Cthulhu
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11-02-2015 17:11 |
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Szeszej
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I believe there's too much room for abuse
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11-03-2015 06:52 |
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dooz
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Certainly agree with szes
1 - you auction item
2 - someone(A) bid on item
3 - you get friend(B) to bid on item, hoping to make A bid one more time on item
4 - Goto : 2
If A stops bidding, then B can cancel his bid 30 seconds? before auction ends, or if you're not satisfied with the price you then B does not cancel. Either way, sounds pretty abusive to me
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11-03-2015 09:42 |
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Cthulhu
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Hmmm, you see this is the problem with being an honest gamer - I hadn't considered the point of view of people who want to cheat! :/
Thanks anyway.
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11-03-2015 17:09 |
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Cthulhu
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ok here's a really wild idea - why not remove the option to set a reserve price on the auctions?
Reasoning:
1) it would (in my warped mind) make the auctions fairer as people couldn't set high prices for their mates to swap items, etc
2) make it more exciting for all the players rather than just the ones who are sitting on stockpiled stones
3) eliminate people setting ridiculous start prices that are not relevant to the item
Just a thought.
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11-05-2015 20:49 |
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Originally posted by Cthulhu
Reasoning:
1) it would (in my warped mind) make the auctions fairer as people couldn't set high prices for their mates to swap items, etc
2) make it more exciting for all the players rather than just the ones who are sitting on stockpiled stones
3) eliminate people setting ridiculous start prices that are not relevant to the item
Just a thought.
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But then couldn't the normal people just simply bid high, if they wanted the item? It wouldn't matter the price on how low, but rather how high it can go upto...
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11-16-2015 05:34 |
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dooz
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if i'm selling a p5 item that i spent literally thousand lifestones on. I want to be able to set a minimum price
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11-16-2015 09:08 |
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Cthulhu
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Yeah, I get that.
Although, you could argue that if you spent 'thousands' of stones on getting that item, there's probably less chance you would sell it, and if it was that good, then the market price would push it up anyway.
My point was 'setting ridiculous prices that are not relevant'.
e.g. someone drops a Perfect Sharp Knife of Leader on a quest and then spends the next 5 weeks putting it on the auction with a reserve of 700 BS, then 500 BS, then 300 BS, and so on until it finally sells for what it is really worth....... 2 BS.
Or it is sold to someone's mate to swap stones for a price of 2 MS.
Don't believe me - check the closed auctions.
If that's not a 'push', and therefore an abuse of the system, then I don't know what is.
It is one of (many) things that have bugged me about this game - the apparent 'rules' that only seemed to be enforced when one of the dev team can be bothered.
Well that's my rant over, as usual nothing constructive will be done here. This server is dead anyway so who gives a shit.... not sure why we're still bothering to make games suggestions, there's only 50 people playing the game!
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This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Cthulhu: 12-16-2015 14:48.
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12-16-2015 14:47 |
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