also noticed one safe is auto-renewing, but every 10 mins. which isnt an option to choose.
and, if the 5 min timer was implemented to prevent the bug where gold was being lost if auctions ended at the same time, then that only gives 12 slots set to 60min auction. with more than 12, theres still the chance auctions would end at the exact same time. So is this even preventing the bug where gold was being lost?
confirmed. checked multiple houses with over 12 auction safes. looks like only 12 auctions can be active at one time on 60min auctions. this is a pretty big blow to traders. there has to be a better option please fix this situation.
Sounds like this wouldn't be an issue if you used 7d timers and set BIN prices instead of exploiting 60m auctions on hundreds of safes to avoid paying BIN fees.
It saves the seller gold, not the buyer. Fees are paid by the seller.
You can do an auction with a buyout price. If someone doesn't want to wait the full duration of the auction, they can buy it out. That's exactly how auctions work everywhere else.
I doubt the original design of auction safes was to load up 100 safes with 60 minute repeating timers to avoid paying any kind of seller fee, but nice try. Even if you do a short duration auction on ebay, you are paying seller fees.
Anyways, sounds like there is a perfectly valid workaround in place until they decide to address this or not. Just set longer timers for now.
Why are you passing on the fee to the buyer? lol. That's your personal decision. Sellers are supposed to eat the fees, not buyers. Sounds like a greed issue to me.
Grabs popcorn to watch yet another developer train wreck in action..
With cheating I'm fine with these commando fixes catch them off guard but this ??? Please what if just one rares collector lost many many plats due to this type of thing and I despise rares collectors it's almost like they wake up saying what part of the player base can we alienate today
Honestly we don't even really know what is going on
We have safes broken or changed
A 6 post poster saying it's about time they fixed it
Crickets from the developers
“Why you made a second thread?”
So if you are doing a 60 minute auction, if someone bids why does it not let them have the item instead of resetting. Or do they have to hit a minimum bid to win.
Auctions with reserves should not be allowed to circumvent fees. Imo. I always use buy it now because I am only on Atlantic for a short time.
Commission vendors get charged even if the item sells in 5 minutes. Kinda odd that the more expensive item sales do not act as a gold sink.
Maybe the devs noticed that, we shall see when it is working again.
“Buy Now” has a 5% fee, but the fee structure on auction safes isn’t the point here and trying to deflect, redirect, or gaslight isn’t going to change the fact that someone screwed something up or changed something on purpose without any communication to paying players.
Also, you misunderstand what a reserve is in an auction.
”Reserve” is the minimum an item can go for, and is usually much higher than a starting bid. If there is a reserve of 500m and bids only go up to 450m, it’s considered a no sale.
Auction safes don’t have reserves.
if someone bids the bid price and no one else bids, that person gets the item. If there are multiple bidders, highest bid gets it. Whoever pays the buy it now price before any bids are placed gets the item.
there is no reserve.
So I could be the high bidder on an auction safe and wait around until it is over and still not win because I did not meet the hidden reserve. Glad I just use the buy it now if I want an item.
Thanks for the info.
"how you set a reserve sorry?"
still broken. it would be nice to have a dev response even if they arent going to do anything to fix them it would be better to know. a much better description of how the timer functions is needed right now its not intuitive at all even for a veteran player. i cant imagine the frustration for someone new to auction safes trying to figure them out with trial and error.
Should we even discuss the fact that some auction safes randomly start on their own now? I know someone who was restocking, was waiting for the timers and had yet to adjust the prices of one (let alone started the auction safe) and when he checked it a few minutes later it had started on its own with the wrong price. (Think a 1.5p item with the safe starting at 250m.)
Why does a team with no resources for actual new content or bugs fixes decide to focus on this or deleting players memorials seems like priorities are incorrect
