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264545.1
Date: 10/26/2014 3:41:04 AM
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I have an idea which can partially solve the autobid question/demands.

When you put somebody to transfer list, after setting up the starting bid you'll have three options:
1. no buy-it-now price
2. salary*25 buy-it-now price
3. salary*50 buy-it-now price

Buy-it-now option appears only in the last 12 hours. If the normal bid goes higher than the buy-it now price in the first 60 (84-108-132-156) hours, buy-it-now price won't appear.

As I'm checking my team, salary*50 looks good for lower salary guys and salary*25 is for 100k+ salary players. If you think you have a really valuable player you just don't use the option.

With this option you can buy a player even when you are going to work, sleep, etc when bid ends.

Waiting for opinions...
Poll:  Would you like to have the mentioned buy-it-now option?
Yes, it would be cool.
Yes, but some other way (I'll explain in comment)
No, I want autobid.
Hell, no!!! Everything is just perfect now.

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264545.2 in reply to 264545.1
Date: 10/26/2014 8:26:04 AM
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cmon people. please try to make an unbiased pol if you want something..

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264545.3 in reply to 264545.2
Date: 10/26/2014 9:04:46 AM
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don't get your problem with the poll

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264545.4 in reply to 264545.3
Date: 10/26/2014 11:29:21 AM
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I think another way you could do it is as follows..

The buy it now would be double the bid price, but only if it makes sense for the salary of the player.

Let's say the salary of a center is 50000. The minimum starting bid would have to be 350000 if he wants to have a buy it now which would be 700000. This is just an example and very rough

The buy it now moves up with the bid.

Honestly, I like your way better but I was just trying to add an idea.

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264545.5 in reply to 264545.3
Date: 10/26/2014 12:28:16 PM
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I'm not really against the idea but I think it would very hard to implement and buy it now would make cheating much easier.

The way its worded is obviously bias for a start and then you give two options for buy-it-now, then one for autobid and one for keeping things the same, so not equal?

Pretty obviously skewed poll.

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264545.6 in reply to 264545.5
Date: 10/26/2014 12:54:28 PM
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well I meant it as 2 yes and 2 no, didn't want to be bias. Actually the second yes is a no for my idea as it says other way

And how could you cheat with this?

Last edited by LA-Charlie50 at 10/26/2014 12:55:53 PM

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264545.8 in reply to 264545.7
Date: 10/26/2014 1:32:52 PM
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Overpricing: I didn't think of it, you're right, I was caring only about underpricing. But everybody sees it on TL as I said buy it now appears only in the last 12 hours, so everybody has (at least) 60 hours to report.

As for the poll:
1. my idea
2. usually when you have an idea some people will have other/better idea based on yours and i didn't want them say no just because they don't totally agree
3. the idea came up in the autobid topic and it is kinda related
4. everything is perfect now doesn't mean that the game won't be better. It means the current system is good in your opinion and lots of people thinks that. How on earth can this be negative?

Anyway bigger part says no so it doesn't matter anymore. I promise I won't do polls anymore in the suggestions forum

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264545.9 in reply to 264545.8
Date: 10/26/2014 1:45:03 PM
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Yeh fair enough, didn't want to sound too critical of the poll, just seems obvious the views of whoever made it.

In terms of buy it now, it can help cheaters because it open up controlled transfers between two individuals. With the bidding process every single transfer is publicly listed and therefore anyone can bid if it is a reasonable price.

With buy it now two people could agree a sale before the player being listed, and closing off the option to everyone else.

Just takes away the open aspect of transfers.

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264545.10 in reply to 264545.9
Date: 10/26/2014 4:11:06 PM
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"With buy it now two people could agree a sale before the player being listed, and closing off the option to everyone else."

No they can't as buy it now appears oly in the last 12 hours so everyone has at least 60 hours to overbid the buy it now price. If nobody wishes to give that amount then it's no harm setting up the price cause nobody would pay that much anyway.

The same can happen now. Case one: we can agree that I'll buy a center from you at the price of 2M even if he's worth only 500k. If we agrre on this no difference between setting buy it now price or just put the bid the usual way.
The opposite situation: you have a center who's worth 2M and you want to sell me for 500k. He will be on the market for 60 hours before I could buy him for 500k and if the bid goes higher the option won't be available.

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