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On the auction screen, I suggest to get rid the "bid" amount and only have the "maximum bid" amount. I bid on a player that had not yet been bid on with an opening bid of $25 million. I inadvertently put $27 million in the bid amount instead of the maximum bid amount and it opened my bid at $27 million, possibly costing me $2 million (I won the auction as the only bidder). I know it was my fault, so I'm not really complaining, but I see no reason to have both the bid and maximum bid amounts. | 07/10/2012 20:48 |
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I disagree. Having both is valuable, as it lets you set how much you want the next "bump" in price to be. I would, however, like to see the simulator not escalate quite so quickly to get to people's maximum bids. For example, if I bid on a player for 5 mil, and set a maximum bid of 10 mil, the price often jumps from just over 5 all the way to 10, potentially costing me money if nobody else were to bid. Devs, any input on how the auction is programmed to escalate? | 07/10/2012 20:57 |
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Just using the max bid would do the same thing. If you want your bid to be 1 million higher than the current bid, then your max bid would just be one million higher. Both buttons seem to do the same thing IMO. I guess where I see the fault is that the system would open my bid at two million higher than the sellers opening price. That would never happen in an actual auction. Edited by sabrefan62 07-10-2012 21:21 Edited by sabrefan62 07-10-2012 21:21 |
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I don't want to have to keep returning to the auction to raise my max bid a little at a time. I'd like to set it once, and have the system just barely beat any other bids out there, similar to the way that real online auctions (think eBay) work. | 07/10/2012 21:28 |
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The only advantage I see in the normal bid button is to "scare" other people from bidding on an auction, but even then it has very little use because if someone has the money and they want to outbid you, they wlll. I've never used bid, except maybe when I was a newb and didn't understand things. | 07/10/2012 22:25 |
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phaag said: I don't want to have to keep returning to the auction to raise my max bid a little at a time. I'd like to set it once, and have the system just barely beat any other bids out there, similar to the way that real online auctions (think eBay) work. What you're explaining is exactly what the max bid amount does. To illex, I see what you are saying. Bid a higher opening bid that might keep people away that potentially could have a higher max bid. Edited by sabrefan62 07-10-2012 22:31 Edited by sabrefan62 07-10-2012 22:32 |
07/10/2012 22:30 |
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Even then it only works a little. Like if I saw a guy currently going for $50M I might not even jump in the auction, but if he was at $40M I might and I could wind up deciding I wanted that player (or wanted to now lose him) so bad I might willing to spend $55M. If the guy is actually worth that though, he's going to go for that presumably. It'd be a curious study to do with two players. If I had 2 identical 50 average CF's I wonder which one would go for more if one was auctioned from $0 and the other from $10M. |
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sabre, you're not listening to me... normal auctions will just barely beat the bid of your nearest competitor. For some reason, this auction system occasionally just jumps up to your max bid, even if your competitor only slightly outbid you. That is what I'm complaining about. |
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phaag said: sabre, you're not listening to me... normal auctions will just barely beat the bid of your nearest competitor. For some reason, this auction system occasionally just jumps up to your max bid, even if your competitor only slightly outbid you. That is what I'm complaining about. Ah, I see what you are saying...I guess I've never had that happen to me. |
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phaag said: sabre, you're not listening to me... normal auctions will just barely beat the bid of your nearest competitor. For some reason, this auction system occasionally just jumps up to your max bid, even if your competitor only slightly outbid you. That is what I'm complaining about. Sadly you are wrong in this. I'll explain with example. You put current bid at 10m, maximum bid at 21m. Manager X comes and he puts in bid at 10.01m, maximum bid at 20.5m So the system will automatically jump your bid to 20.51m and skip the bidding war in between. If that was not the case, with the 1000m+ auctions, managers will end up taking days to delete message from tech secretary |
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