quangntenemy Posted:

us, as in more than 100000 players, or just a few who are abusing the system?

Hmm, I’m kind of on the fence on this one. I can see part of both sides.

But let me ask you something, Q. How do these auctions interfere with the fun of the 99% of the player base that aren’t involved in them?

As far as why the system is automated, my guess is that the workload of manually monitoring auctions would be too much for an already overworked staff.

And I can see the fun in blowing through flezz on stupid stuff. I’m an American, and I see my fellow Americans do it every day. How hasn’t played a game of Monopoly were you had such a commanding lead in the game, you were offering stupid prices for virtually useless properties? ”Hey, dude, I’ll give you $10,000 for Baltic Avenue, just so I have this whole corner of the board!”

My thought would be to simply flag any user that was making such an obscene bid or sale, so that someone could review it manually. Or even if the Auction itself could have a publicly viewable flag, with a warning and an option for a Bidder or the Seller to send in an explanation about why it’s not abuse.

Auto-shutting auctions really isn’t the best option, and I’m hoping its simply temporary.

Personally, I don’t see the point of allowing Junk to be auctioned in the first place. Other than these auctions in question, are people really paying more for the Junk than a player would get for selling it in the Ppwn Shoppe?