Proposal: the lone contractor
Self Killed. Failed by Derrick.
Adminned at 25 Apr 2019 11:19:54 UTC
Add the following after the first atomic action listed in Contracts
If it has been 60 hours or more since the last bid on a project with only bids from 1 contractor, the Great Eccentric may “Award” a project by taking the following atomic action:
*Make a blog post stating the name of the project being awarded. This post is known as the project’s contract.
*In the contract state which contractor had the lowest bid. This is known as the project’s winner.
*List double the amount of the lowest bid. This is known as the project’s prize
*Resolve the resource ranges in the project’s estimation, and list this in the contract. This is known as the project’s cost.
*Change the status of the project to “contracted”
It’s probable that a contractor might be the only one to ever bid on a project. perhaps the others don’t want to lose their infrastructure by changing sites and so on.
Kevan: he/him
It’s very likely. But double the bid is a huge bonus for that player - usually you’d expect second place to be only slightly above your own bid. This would add back weird incentives for everyone to bid on projects they didn’t want, to stop another player from getting too big a reward for them.