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~.~ but thats one thing ive been pointing out this isnt a pure war game any more.....

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~.~ but thats one thing ive been pointing out this isnt a pure war game any more.....





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No its not now its a bidding game for artifacts. Same thing more passive how its done.

It is still a war game, just not every peace of that is PvP. How we see the war game is different. But it is still here.


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add an extra 15-30 seconds (random amount) to the auction every bid. the bidders will have to budget energy costs as well as the bid price. the sellers get a more 'fair' price more often. the rest of us can watch funny pissing matches when bidders refuse to give up ;)

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Supported. Having something you bid on sniped with one second to go (literally) is starting to get annoying. The only way you can avoid sniping is to massively overbid on items, which just wastes credits. +1 for the idea.

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+1 to a ten second add-on, mostly because it means, more bidding wars = more money for the sellers :twisted: .


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The issue of sniping is a moot point dan is working on a buy now option so you can avoid the sniping of bids.

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The issue of sniping is a moot point dan is working on a buy now option so you can avoid the sniping of bids.


Its still nice to have anti sniping.

I will ask you one question. Have you ever been to an auction room where you can't keep bidding for an item?
Cause i can't remember see-ing any auction room with a set time limit per item, there always a 5-10 second delay for other bids.

Can you name one?

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It may just simply come down to connection speed, but something simply must be done about those crazy bid snipers on almost every auction in the Trade Center. Every time an auction is within 2 minutes a vast amount of bids come in and when you are a bid owner, many times you are notified too late to do anything about it do to this games intense lag problems.

Placing a refresh button on the trade center might help to ensure that all players would have the opportunity to see the current status of their bid, and may give those with slower connections better chances of actually winning an auction. Currently the closest thing we have to a refresh button is taking the time to copy and paste the name of your artifact into the search bar and click search over and over again to simulate a refresh. However, this process is simply too slow.

Any other ideas to solve this problem are welcome!

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Or to prevent sniping all together, extend the time to 10 minutes whenever another bid is placed when less than 10 minutes remains.

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STOP MAKING NEW TOPICS ABOUT IT

sniping is a skill if you dont poses it or are to lazy to try/do it dont cry about it

snipers have to work for the items instead of placing a bid and waiting until they get a message
there will be a buy now button , and i hope sniping on open auctions will stay as it is fair

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Fair? Nah its like stealing candy from a little kid when you are faster and stronger then them. Oh you can do it doesnt mean its not underhanded.

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Learn how to Snipe people, if you want to get the Artifact(s) you want you have to have timing. Camp if you have to. I myself camp, counting the time from 1 minute to less than a minute and jump in at the last second to swoop in for the steal. It's cheap but I've gotten 2k CTP for 30b (Sold for 50b+), 500 TMs (in total) bought for less than 40b and sold for over 60b. HINT: Looking at the Server Time to help you with the Snipe. At times you miss a snipe bid, just miscounted the time, there's always another cheap auction going on after that. What I hate about the GTC is that it takes too long to get your winning artifact, way too long.

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When the first message comes up saying you have been outbid then just repeatedly click on the item name in the message

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Fair? Nah its like stealing candy from a little kid when you are faster and stronger then them. Oh you can do it doesnt mean its not underhanded.


I agree completely. I don't necessarily think there should be a timer after a bid is made, but there seriously is a difference based on individual players connections in their ability to do this. It rewards a select few and damages many. I DO know how to Snip Bid and I've been effective at it. That said, I still don't think its fair for everyone else. I would like to see something done to prevent it by the developers.

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And it is comeing dan has said he will be putting a bid now option is as ive pointed out in all the other threads, we just need to wait till he can put it in.

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And it is comeing dan has said he will be putting a bid now option is as ive pointed out in all the other threads, we just need to wait till he can put it in.


u know... a buy out option is always at a preset price.
does that mean the only way to get around sniping is to pay some price that is possibly unreasonablly high?
Usually, buy out is set at prices that normal sale would not reach, or they would ask for a higher one which in turn makes this statement true.

Sniping is semi-fair, but it's certainly not the best implementation.

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u know... a buy out option is always at a preset price.
does that mean the only way to get around sniping is to pay some price that is possibly unreasonablly high?
Usually, buy out is set at prices that normal sale would not reach, or they would ask for a higher one which in turn makes this statement true.

Sniping is semi-fair, but it's certainly not the best implementation.


Yeah thats the way it is in every mmo that has a market or auction house you ether have to go into a bid war or you pay there buy now option.
You can try to save a little by going into a bidding battle, or you can potentally save money by just buying it now.

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Or just bid a reasonable price for the item. :roll:
Then if you get outbid o well

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