This. I've been waiting for like 30 minutes now.

oh it definately needs a cancel button on ur auction if no bids has been made on it .
just made mistakes on both my auctions :/
one i completely over priced (had an extra 0)
other i made it longer than i wanted.

How about the fact that most trades involve either Ku or CTP, and have known acceptable rates makes them easier to use.

I would like to suggest that we be allowed to sell research points on the GTC.
I think it would make sense to have the same eligibility that applies to Research Contracts.

-1 - Let me send my alt 50 billion credits level him to level 50 and instantly have 90% of all my research done..

I'm not sure what the current minimal bid is on an item that already have a bid.
If it is 10% higher, then removing the 10 energy is fine
If it can be bid for with just 1 CR higher... then 10 energy thing need to be kept to prevent pointless bidding.

The item limit, IMO, is completely pointless.... Why is it even there? So removing that would be the suggestion that I agree with the most.
Either expand the number of auction slots to infinite(possibly with the condition of max limit auction only) OR remove the item limit OR allow multiple listing (meaning, for example, selling 5000 shares of 1000 EM and the highest 5000 bids will get the EM. A person is allowed to bid multiple shares at once ofc or it would be painful)
any of those 3 should work, share based one is probably most user friendly but heavy on the server load while the no-limit easiest to implement but is possible to cause problems in the market.

You wait until your resource dump comes in

well, if that happens their CR will flow out, eventually trickle down to the little guys which in turn allow the little guys to bid in the future.
It's possible that the per unit price of all artifact will go up during this process, but it will eventually reach some equilibrium, it's impossible for a few players to have the CR to consume all resources in the field...

besides, there is the bid slot thing, even if you proxy you are limited to only a certain number of slots, u can't rly buy in everything...



No dear, that have nothing to do with bandwidth. It's DB and RAM problem.

I agree there does have to be a minimum bid increase 10% seems high given the insane prices things are going for but yes there would have to be something in place to prevent the spamming of 1 credit increases.



I could definitely see having too many auction slots causing a smallish game like this to cause performance issues.. only reason I suggested having 5/20 limit to buy/sell queues

Buy it now--Yes
Removing auction:
Unbidded--Yes
Bidded--Change to "end now", the current high bidder gets the item at the current price. Seller should be responsibble for any problem in a listing and hence if he want to do something of the sort, he should be at risk of loss, not buyer.
Regarding choose number to buy(and a bit on max counts):
complete flexibility? NO, that just ruins the sale for the seller.
But, with the current item limit thing, here is an alternative:
share selling, allowing the sale of a specific item multiple times using only one auction slot.
Specific example, sell 5000 shares of 1000 EM at the same time. The highest 5000 bids will get the EM at their bidding price.
Ofc, this would also require the ability to buy multiple share at once or it's gonna be a pain to buy. This alllows buyers to have some flexibility in the amount they purchase while not ruining the sale by seller. Thou I feel it would be kinda bad if ppl post 1 item x 100 shares, instead of 100 item x 1 share, perhaps put a limit on the number of share that can be posted (unlimited if the item count is at max, otherwise some mulitple of the number of items sold perhaps?)


Here is an interesting concept: trade coins.
Trade coins can be purchased for 1M each, they can be used instead of CR in bidding for their face value.
They can be sold at 800k each.
So if you sell all the coins you got from your auctions, the tariff is just what it is now. But if you use the coins you get from the auction to bid on stuff you want, you don't pay the tariff.
When you bid on things, you will automatically use as many trade coin as you can instead of credit.

Autoextend defintely +1, I think 5 or 10 min will do justice. Not sure if that's in now, I thought it would be = =;

Regarding energy on bidding:
Like I said on another thread, only if there is a minimal amount, say 10%, on how much you need to be higher than the current bid to place a bid. Frankly, spamming wont be a problem in that case, the price will go up rly fast and whoever is doing the spamming is just gonna have to pay a heavy fee later, let them.

It's not 5000 slots, but 5000 shares of the same thing using only 1 slot(slot limit is still 2 or 5 or 10 etc), there is a difference (for example, the game only need to store 1 end time instead of 5000)
but yeah, for some purposes, such as storing of bids, it's not a lot different than 5000 slots (thou multiple bid by the same person at same price could be stored a bit "cheaper") so unfortunately it might still cause performance issues...
But I rly feel that would be the ideal method.

lol .. to clarify.. I was giving it a -1 because I could see where the abuse would spring forth

What's this fuss over 10 energy? Gee, is 10 energy really that much to you? It's what, 30 minutes charge at most, down to as low as 5 minutes. Tell you what, slow, and particuarly freeze, rankers are going to have a field day bidding on random crap.

can you please make a "watch" button

ive seen some good stuff up for sale
and it would be great just to ceep track of it

Dan i understand it is new but it would be nice if you alowed a buy out option.

Yes please

Needs a cancel bid option can use every 12hrs on either cancel auction or bid

ok next it would seem there needs to be a min bid as well.

SO have it populate the feild the min bid alowed. cuz i just tried to put somthing up for 12k and it rejected it saying i did not set it to the min bid required to post it.

also if the Buy now option is given, i would like for there to be a system set price for non tradeable items (nulls torpedos and the likes) that you can either only buy x# in a day from Dan, or for players to be able to sell them again still at a predetermined value per unit.