#Repost: Auction Hall

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stark fiber
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Original discussion: #1089105791237238895 message

I have seen a lot of players suggest a gifting or trading system in the past. I propose that instead, we could have an auction hall, where players could sell their unwanted cosmetics/cosmetic bundles, including custom-made and -named cosmetic bundles.

The players could sell any items they wanted (aside from Steam exclusives) in the auction hall, however they would have to be within a certain price range. It's a little tricky to explain, so here are some examples:

  • Original price 500 = Auction price range 250 - 750
  • Original price 1,000 = Auction price range 500 - 1,500
  • Original price 200 = Auction price range 100 - 300

Essentially, you divide the original price in half, then add and subtract the half to/from the OP. These two numbers are the price range limits. Furthermore, when the item that is being auctioned is in the shop, the maximum auction price will match the original price.

In addition, players will be able to put out a request looking for a particular cosmetic/cosmetic bundle for a specified price (the price specified would be the maximum the player is willing to spend; they could purchase it for a lower offer). The same price range principle would apply.

You would also be required to pay a predetermined amount (e.g. a quarter of the auctioned price) to remove your auction from the listings, but not your requests.

I have tried to leave as little room as possible for an exploitation of the system, however, with this type of game addition, it is extremely difficult to completely eradicate these advantageous usages.

See the attached mockups for a general idea of how this could be implemented into our current menu system. I would like to mention that there is a Steam-exclusive item for sale in one of the mockups. This is an error on my part.

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tawdry crane
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I guess this is a great idea cause players may or can get coins if they were lagging behind but yes devs should add a timer of 1 day so the player focuses in the match not the trading

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thx

sharp pike
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Great idea

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Although farming cosmetics is still a glaring issue coronalol

tawdry crane
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cause if a player has 80% of the cometcs which are available in WB

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he/she would always see his owned cosmetics so he wouldnt buy more from the shop but from the auction hall it would be better

steady terrace
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I did not read all that, but how would this help the devs

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In the sense that they need people to buy coings

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Oh

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Nvm

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I am much stoopid

quasi slate
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Beat me to it. I was making a mockup similar, except for a player shop. More or less the same thing. One way to diminish exploitation of the game would be a set price 100-300 coings that a player would need to pay to sell their item.

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My original idea didn't include a player set price, I like this idea

stark fiber
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This is a repost of an old suggestion I made

stark fiber
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Just looked at the mockups again and apparently I've had the same 4 coings for 2 years now

steady terrace
stark fiber
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Surprised this hasn’t been Plokatized yet

terse wing
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cause I like to live

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and not respond to everything immediately

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still haven't read this

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I am 90% sure I will be tearing it apart as negative to the game and coin purchases

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like most trading and gifting suggestions go

steady terrace
terse wing
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  • Each and every cosmetic has to have a set price on the server end for this to work
  • Requires server space to manage multiple listings and who owns them
  • UI is not friendly for a feature like this currently
  • Abuse through special crates giving easy cosmetics that players can sell off (always guaranteed with an alt)
    • Especially if you own everything, just sell the highest valued cosmetic you have and then unbox it right back
    • Repeat this sell and unbox for easy profit
    • There is no separation between how you got cosmetics, so don't say "just don't allow crate cosmetics to be sold"
    • Even if you add separation, there is already a large backlog years in the making of crate cosmetics you can't account for in retrospect
  • Opens abuse for free coins without needing new cosmetics
    • sell high to alt, sell low to main, sell high to alt, sell high to main... (repeat until main makes 1000s coins profit)
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this can't work

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it still has the alt abuse issues

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and at its core, what are auction houses in games for?

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it's a trading system where you can try to make a profit

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for ~7000 free coins I don't think the devs are interested in getting people into a trading system, potentially opening abuse and black market platforms, and reducing number of people buying coins

stark fiber
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Didn’t even consider the crate thing

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I think this suggestion was initially made before you could get normal cosmetics from event crates

terse wing
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special crate we know was added Christmas 2021

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this whole suggestions thread is newer than those crates

stark fiber
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#suggestions-archived message

terse wing
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noice

stark fiber
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July 25th 2021

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I reposted it twice in the old channel

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Twice in this thread now

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It keeps not getting official responses so I repost every few months

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Though this time it’s been almost 2 years

terse wing
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I think cause joja hasn't bothered to shut things down anymore

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only to comment on ideas he likes

stark fiber
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Wait I must have missed this

#suggestions-archived message

terse wing
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or he upvotes on things like my crate tokens suggestion

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and doesn't even add Accepted or Considered

stark fiber
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That was still before event crates though

terse wing
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or anything

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like... give me something to work with here man 😭

stark fiber
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It would probably be rejected now due to the crate thing

stark fiber
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Last thing I got considered was my milestone thing and that was a technicality

terse wing
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yeah, no chance that's on the TODO

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not anymore if it got on

stark fiber
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This was my last (technically) “considered”

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I still support the token idea

keen hornet
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I would be happy to sell my stuff at pawn shop prices.

cobalt needle
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It looks really good. But as a pro griefer/farmer, it can be exploited by selling things cheap and instantly buy them with the regular account.

stark fiber
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Read it all the way through before providing feedback please

stark fiber
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Who marked this as a duplicate

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Yes it's a duplicate that's literally what a repost is

tired dust
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pepelaff Plok

frosty knot
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Add a cool down timer for buying and selling, as well as make it so 10-20% of the items final selling price goes to “the bin” so the market doesn’t inflate. I’m not smart when it comes to the economy and money so if that’s a terrible idea I’m sorry please provide your own input

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Just thought it might help or smth

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Nvm now that I think about it that was dumb

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Mb

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Forget I said the bin part

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✅

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Just add some taxes so you don’t make a ton of money

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When buying or selling

stark fiber
sharp pike
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The IRS is coming for me in warbrokers too pepe_what

quasi slate