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Out of curiosity which game was this? It's an interesting mechanic (sort of an inverse "The Price is Right") but I wouldn't have thought it would be particularly good for the market. Seems to me there's strong incentive for a single person (or a group if there's a low bids/person limit) to place bids across a wide range of prices to ensure that you get it and at a low price.
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Originally Posted by Plusone
I actually hadn't realized this until this thread.
(Now, after you've wiped whatever fluid you shot out of your nose upon reading this I will explain, lol) I came to CoX after years playing a different MMO, one in which the auction house worked a little different. In that game there was more play in the bidding, if an item was selling for 5k you could bid less on it than that and still maybe get one. The sale went to the bidder who bid closest without going under to price the seller posted. in CoX terms, if I bid 1mil for a Numinas, I'm not likely to get it because most are selling for 50mil, but if someone who just didnt want to or couldnt pay the fee to post the item at 50mil and only posted it for 500k I'd get it with my 1 mill bid because i was closest to that 1 sale price. now, to change bidding strategies, sorry to have wasted the threads time, lol |
I'm pretty sure I have a level 50 Numina Heal enhancement, already crafted, up for sale. They don't seem undersupplied, though.
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No, no, I wasnt being an jackass, lol. I was sincerely apologizing for my noobishness, lol, I've been on this game over a year and didnt know that, so yeah, im a *******, lol.
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Originally Posted by Donna_
Oh no no, I wasn't having a go or a dig.. and you heven't wasted any time.Honest
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It was Final Fantasy Online. It was an interesting system, but the economy was a bit more complex as well. You could only bid on a very limited# of items, 8? maybe at a time, it's been a while. You could only stack certain items like arrowheads so some things, particularly expensive things, you could only bid on or sell 1 per slot. And there was also a personal bazaarth where people who looked at your bio could buy items in your inventory if you put a price on them. Most people just kept 1 or 2 crazy expensive items on bazarre, as well as whatever they wanted to brag they had(they just set its price to 999,999,999 so no one in their right mind would buy it, and if they did you just got max gold)|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Out of curiosity which game was this? It's an interesting mechanic (sort of an inverse "The Price is Right") but I wouldn't have thought it would be particularly good for the market. Seems to me there's strong incentive for a single person (or a group if there's a low bids/person limit) to place bids across a wide range of prices to ensure that you get it and at a low price.
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As for the bidding low on things, it happened, if you had an extra auction house slot you werent using it wasnt uncommon to bid 100 gold for a multimillion item in hopes of a typo by the seller. But the listing that told how m uch and what time the items sold for, also told who sold and who bought so if this did happen the two player could get in touch and work it out.
It was fun, I wish CoX had a personal bazaar system.
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The good news is that most folks hereabouts don't have any problem with "noobs", as such. Everybody started out not knowing most of this stuff. Especially when it's poorly documented or just plain obscure.|
Originally Posted by Plusone
No, no, I wasnt being an jackass, lol. I was sincerely apologizing for my noobishness, lol, I've been on this game over a year and didnt know that
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The flame wars start when people who don't know how it works come in and start arguing about how it works with everyone who knows how it works.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
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Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Or when people disagree with how it operates. lol. I don't mind using WW, my biggest problem is the drop rates. People say palce 2 or 3 bids or more on items, but at the going rates alot of people can't afford to place multiple bids on high price items. Not to mention that some pieces haven't had a sell since Sept.
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(Now, after you've wiped whatever fluid you shot out of your nose upon reading this I will explain, lol)
I came to CoX after years playing a different MMO, one in which the auction house worked a little different. In that game there was more play in the bidding, if an item was selling for 5k you could bid less on it than that and still maybe get one. The sale went to the bidder who bid closest without going under to price the seller posted. in CoX terms, if I bid 1mil for a Numinas, I'm not likely to get it because most are selling for 50mil, but if someone who just didnt want to or couldnt pay the fee to post the item at 50mil and only posted it for 500k I'd get it with my 1 mill bid because i was closest to that 1 sale price. now, to change bidding strategies, sorry to have wasted the threads time, lol
Oh no no, I wasn't having a go or a dig.. and you heven't wasted any time.
I only posted cause i think that may be why you've not got them yet... I hope it helps.
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