Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Proposal: Slowing our Rolls

Timed out. 3-2 Enacted by card.

Adminned at 05 May 2017 05:51:00 UTC

In “Auctions”, add to the list under “Any of the following conditions being met makes a bid invalid:”

* The bidding manager having already made three bids on this auction.

I didn’t intend for this to happen, but the Managers have spoken: the bidding mechanism as-is is somehow even more grindy than a daily action grind. That’s my bad. I was anticipating that Managers would make bids reflecting the actual amount of money they’d want to pay, not price-is-right grind up the auction by 10%.

If this passes, you’ll have to make your bids slower and make them count.

posted by pokes at 02 May 2017 23:43:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Madrid:

02-05-2017 23:49:16 UTC

for

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

02-05-2017 23:49:29 UTC

against

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

02-05-2017 23:49:49 UTC

If this is what you want, why not make it a silent auction?

pokes:

02-05-2017 23:54:31 UTC

That’s maybe a better idea. I’d vote for it if you propose a change to it. I’d be personally worried about my not seeing a bid or something and inadvertently mangling the gamestate; This way everything is still public and the record can get corrected.

Crumb:

03-05-2017 15:37:33 UTC

for

Madrid:

03-05-2017 15:43:28 UTC

I fear a metagame where we all sit at the 48h mark and try to submit our limited amount of bids at that time, but we’ll see.

card:

03-05-2017 15:58:50 UTC

It doesn’t really solve anything.  against