BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

causes a slightly weird interaction with buying traps (which is a night action) but seems good to me.

Two players collaborating could just take every house off the market at Reserve price.

How? You can only launch one auction every 72 hours

Ok, then, they could take two houses off the market at Reserve price, every three days. Basically, Auctions converted into two man team snipes, with first come first serve for the best/cheapest houses.

Which sounds like an interesting mechanic, to be honest, but it’s opaque that that’s what we’re voting for. And I’m sure it wasn’t what was intended.

I mean, it’s still a somewhat motivated assessment; you yourself have demonstrated that buying houses above the reserve price is a strategy that you can deliberately pursue. Even outside of that strategy there’s almost always a gap between reserve price and likely sale price where a buyer can make a considered profit. This proposal introduces a cost but doesn’t close off that strategy, so portraying it as an avenue to a total lockout is a little mendacious.

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adjective
not telling the truth; lying.

Ok, but fair warning, this will turn the Auction upside down. I’ll go ahead and find a friend to abuse the system with, should this pass.

Update: Josh was convinced by my explanations in #current_dynasty, and submitted the correction, https://blognomic.com/archive/margin_call, which I can get behind.

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