Bid system

[RedJohn]

Hello everybody.
So my idea is that when a player wants to sell his car , he'll have 2 choices :
1- Selling it to the dealer
2- Selling it at auction
Explaining : So for example I am willing to sell my AAJUO (XFR) , I will click the Home menu , choose the auction sale . Then I'll choose the car , set the price and the time of the auction (e.g 2 hours) then confirm.
After that , a /msg will show to everyone else in the server that the car is for sale , if somebody wants it , he'll type the command "!bid AAJUO 70000" , when the the 2hrs is over , the player that made the highest bid will win.

[Dowpy]

Then no one is going to use the market or am i completely lost now?

[RedJohn]

As said above , you'll have 2 choices :
Selling to the market
Selling it at the auction

[Kieran]

quite like the idea tbh

[Dowpy]

(2013-11-10 13:25)RedJohn Wrote:  As said above , you'll have 2 choices :
Selling to the market
Selling it at the auction

Mybad, sorry.

[Sadie]

But can you set a lowest bid price? So none get a car for 1€

[[TC]►BP◄]

(2013-11-10 13:34)Adrian Wrote:  But can you set a lowest bid price? So none get a car for 1€

Why would anyone want to sell their car for 1 Euro anyway? Should be up to them what they set the bid off for + you can already sell cars cheaply to people manually.

[RedJohn]

If you set 70k as a starting price , players can only bid more than 70k , not less

[[TC] Connor]

I think there should also be a limit as to how much you can auction the car off for.

eg. XFR's condition -100% you can auction it off for full price i.e €110,000
- 50% then there should be a suggested price i.e no more than €40,000 or something like that.

Then the most you can auction it off for goes down as the condition goes down, same for the value of the car at the moment really.

[RedJohn]

What about special VIN's ? Some cars got sold for a lot more than their value

[Toni]

I like this idea! But it needs a reserve feature (or however its said) that means if u set the lowest price, for example: my xfg is currently valued 7k and I set the reserve at 4,5k and if no one bids over 4,5k, i have 2 options:

1: Take the reserve off
2: Keep the car myself

And the commands for setting the reserve could be like this:

!set reserve <VIN> <PRICE>
and to remove the reserve:
!remove reserve <VIN>

[Edwin]

I don't see the point in this. If people sell it in an auction, you have to set a price lower than what's on the market already as people will buy the cheapest one. So basically people will just sell it at the market as they will get more money.

I only see this idea working on specific cars that are not on the market (XFR, UFR etc) and people don't sell them much.

[[TC] Connor]

(2013-11-10 15:13)Edwin Wrote:  I don't see the point in this. If people sell it in an auction, you have to set a price lower than what's on the market already as people will buy the cheapest one. So basically people will just sell it at the market as they will get more money.

I only see this idea working on specific cars that are not on the market (XFR, UFR etc) and people don't sell them much.

Yeah what I was thinking, I mean I have 5 XFRs and not even I'm prepared to let ANY of them go!

[◄Chuck►]

The system does only make any sense if either the buyer is willing to pay more than the market-value or the seller is willing to lose more than 10% of its market-value. Because that would be the price if sold to the dealer.