Adapt Posted:

But that can only happen one time. So maybe realizing they can only use this power once will deter the leader from bidding on some items.

I think this is a very naive view. While most players do not in fact have the focus to dominate the special auctions there are a few who have both enough alts and enough focus to pull it off.

I don’t really have an opinion about MCB’s proposal. I think the auction system is too new and the special items too far between to make a call on it. It sounds cool, but I think we should probably wait to see what Itembuidr brings to the table before pushing hard for something else.

Log in to see images! A shrubbery edited this message on 07/31/2010 4:30PM

The only reason it is possible to hog the flezz leaderboard is that no one actually has to spend money on anything, they just get to sit on all the flezz they have, and also the fact that the amount of flezz that anyone can earn in a single day has a hard cap. That’s what I think kyoubai was made for, giving people with unholy amounts of flezz something to spend money on, and allowing intelligent people to increase the amount of flezz they can earn in a single day, so that it even becomes possible to overtake someone higher up than you on the board. Until the person with the most flezz has something to spend money on, they will always have more buying power than everyone else, that’s what special auctions are for, making the economy more than just “I have more money than you and we can only earn a maximum of X amount of flezz per day, so unless I feel like not being in first place anymore, you are out of luck”. I think, however, that something needs to be put in the game that the richest people in the game would want to spend money on, over and over, instead of just once, to keep the economy moving.

Inertia Posted:

Hey, you don’t have to intentionally drop yourself down a leaderboard to give other people the chance to get the leaderboard e-peen. What is the point of a leaderboard? If you’re the best at collecting flezz you shouldn’t give up your #1 position just for the sake of others imo, that’s not good playing.

Exactly, I’m saying that there should be incentives for the leader that makes them want to spend money and drop down in the rankings, or at least make it a difficult decision, that’s what the special auctions are for. Money has to be earned and spent for an economy to exist, and before kyoubai, no one had anything to spend money on.

MC Banhammer Posted:

That’s not what the problem is. Screw the peen, the issue is that the Flezz leader has complete control over buying any new headset-like item, or letting it go. If they let it go, then it’s somewhat more up in the air. But if they want it, they get it. That’s not an auction, that’s a “congrats on having so much flezz, now here’s your reward”. That’s what I have the issue with.

Agreed in this instance, the store you proposed is a very good idea, with 30-40m Log in to see images! headsets etc. But for other leaderboards such as forums pawnd/friends/incit wins, after having the e-peen for a few weeks they should be retired from the leaderboard.

Another Log in to see images! or cred owned, it’s really hard for lower level characters to be able to afford 10k a shot (it’s more or less 70k a day at worst to get 10 scoops) but that’s nothing if you’ve got over a million and can get 300k per delivery.

Another idea would be to introduce incredibly difficult to obtain gambling related e-peen, eg you have to double down on a 20 and win (Luck O’ The Filthy fine upstanding member of society) with a high stakes bet, or win with 3 7’s 3 times in the same session, this would get people gambling a lot more than normal and waste quite a bit of money.