Auction timer
James and staff,
I enjoy your game and appreciate your ongoing efforts to make the game more enjoyable.
Please take the time to consider this as a benefit for you as also the players. Currently the auction timer does not have a timer reset that allows others to rebid when someone makes a last sec bid for an item. The benefit for you is that people will end up paying more for items if a bidding war starts and the benefit for the players is they will fill like they have a chance at experiencing a true auction. If someone bids in the last 10 sec. please have the timer reset to 30sec. Thank you
PrestonMedici
shared this idea
This will be added in the next update.
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Anonymous
commented
Agreed, in a real world auction if someone is outbid they have the chance to rebid. Here you have people who wait until the last second to try and swoop in and steal the item from someone else. This is not fair to the first person who may have had the highest bid for an extended period of time prior to the end of the auction. Maybe instead of adding time the better option would be if someone is outbid within the last few seconds they are given a chance to place another bid regardless of whether or not the auction is over. Then if they choose to do so the person they outbid gets a chance again as well. This continues until one of the parties decides not to bid anymore and would be fair to both parties. This would more accurately resemble a real world auction then.
Another option that you could go with is a blind auction where everyone who is interested has a specified amount of time to place their bids but no one knows what anyone else has bid. Then when the time runs out, the bids are compared and the highest bidder receives the item. Each person would only have one bid so it would be fair to all. Even if someone decided to bid at the last second, they would have no idea what the high bid is so they would have gained no advantage by waiting until the end. All you would need is a minimum starting bid so everyone would know where to base their bids off of.
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TOPGUNNER
commented
Constantly the timer is out by 30 seconds. it gives me the notification i have won before the timer finishes. additionally if someone snipes me at last few seconds, it doesnt allow me to rebet in time.
Either add a buy now feature, or when someone places a bet, add additional time to the auction (say 30seconds), to allow a more realistic auction scenario, this is casinorpg, not ebay.
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Oldpoop
commented
When an item bid is changed in the last 15 seconds, add an extra minute on to the timer so that others can bid as well.
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Oldpoop
commented
On more then one occasion I bid when the counter was at 8 seconds and when I hit submit it said the auction was over when there was still time on the clock. I have lost Haunted tables and just tonight a red display shark