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.
Comments
Kevan: he/him
derrick: he/him
If only one contractor is bidding, its probably an indication that the project isn’t ready to be bid on yet.
naught:
card:
What would be a good amount then? You can’t have then earn only what they put in, since you’re losing net funds via resources. A fixed number doesn’t seem right since the other contracts are determined via bidding.
Kevan: he/him
Not sure what you mean by “put in” here. A sole winner would be picking a number out of the air, and being given that much money. Even having the prize as 5% of the bid would allow a lucky sole winner to bid $99999B and do very well out of it.
Kevan: he/him
Although in reality you’d be second-guessing against rational just-high-enough bids from other players, to avoid handing someone else that $99999B.
I think the pick-any-number project auction probably needs an overhaul to avoid lucrative edge cases, but my suggestion failed.
derrick: he/him
Its possible that a blind auction is the wrong mechanic and that players should be able to see what others are bidding.
I don’t think that a contract with only one bid should be awarded. Though really, all contractors should be bidding on all contracts. If you have to bid really high to make a project worth it, bid really high.