Maximum increase limit in bid at auction

    Hi there,


    There should be a maximum increase limit in bid at auction. Here is a screenshot of player posting 4th bid at huge amount. He lost his resources now for an item (2 hour item) that will not mean much to him. This does not help him or other players. He lost resources and might lose will to keep playing because of this.


    Just to clarify, this is not maximum bid amount, it is maximum increase with single bid.

    For example, 1Mn to be maximum increase would allow you to increase existing bid from 500,000 to 1,500,000. Then again you could bid and increase it from 1,500,000 to 2,500,000.

    My thoughts on this is to just have a bid button.
    everyone interested just clicks bid.

    No massive bids washing out opportunities for lower ranked players.

    And no rebidding unless one’s own bid is bid against.


    Level the playing field.

    Ok, this might have gone in the wrong direction. I wanted to report bad user experience and a bug where someone can accidentally bid all their resources.

    Improvement that I suggested was supposed to be a simple bug fix to prevent such mistakes by players. I had no intention on redesigning this area etc.


    Maybe this thread should go to bugs section as it seems like bad user interface that causes user to invest all resources by mistake, without any warning or confirmation message.

    Quote from blueye

    Ok, this might have gone in the wrong direction. I wanted to report bad user experience and a bug where someone can accidentally bid all their resources.

    Thats not a bug, thats a mistake.
    No reason to change it, its fine as it is.

    Seriously, I have encountered the same mentality as well...

    I don't thing it is a mistake... some one bids large amounts of resources and ok..by accident hits a couple of numbers on his keyboard. Accident hits in numbers are always close to each other.. i.e. 5 with 6, or 6 with 7... i.e.445 instead of 45.


    This case is pure and plain ego. Unless ... he wants to give you his phone number ... I don't know, my country's cell phones start with 69.... :crazy::thumbsup:

    Hello,

    These things are rarely due to a mistake. It can happen, yes, but very often players are willing to put in an insane number of resources just to win an auction, even if it's not profitable. I see it every day in the universes I play in. And, mistake or not, this kind of thing can encourage players to buy back resources to get even more, so GameForge wins... So I find it hard to see a positive outcome to your proposal.

    GameForge wins, GameForge makes profit, GameForge will not add this or that, GameForge requires all worked out in detail... I keep seeing such messages all over the forum and in chat with other people... It is very frustrating as it seems that GameForge just wants to make more money from the game and they do not care about adding anything that players need and want, unless GameForge can make profit from it? Sorry about this post, it is off topic, but I had to say it somewhere.