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« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2017, 10:13:35 PM »
The last auction i ran the biders went from 20ish to over 50 in psyche, 1 muther freaking point at a time.  Then they did that for strength AND endurance AND warfare.  It took for ever and that was in person.  If we have over 100 bids in the auction like I did, and each bid can take a day the game will fall apart before we play.  

I suggest that we have 12 hours to bid what ever we want after 12 hours you have to jump to the next 5 at least in the last hour you have to jump to the next 10 at least.  

Its good to have a bidding war but one point at a time got tedious.

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« Reply #46 on: December 19, 2017, 09:43:18 AM »
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I'm reading through it, Jorian, and it is great!
Glad you like it

This is the first time I will have anything like a 'bidding war/auction' so I might need some help with understanding the process.


Headless (and anyone else):

I'm not against building up a world together, but while I wish to work together ingame I don't mind if some frictions happen in background/history due to pure accident either and would like to (more or less) leave it to chance that our backgrounds intertwine, so without revealing much:

Ancient Hellas: Troy
Roll the Intro
SPOILER (Hover over section below to view.)


Do something with this and our GM (Edster) can probably make some story connections.

EDIT: We should try to contact the other people interested in playing via PM or email
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« Reply #47 on: December 19, 2017, 12:09:54 PM »
Bids going up 1 point at a time sounds bad. The problem with tightening the time to bid to 12 hours is that we could be spread out in so many time zones it might not be easy for some people to post in time.

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« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2017, 09:48:39 PM »
How about the idea that each attribute auction runs for 24 hours max? That way we won't be temped to climb 1 point at a time unless someone plans to be online for the whole time making small bids.

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« Reply #49 on: December 20, 2017, 12:17:01 AM »
Tried to post this earlier.  Auction ends at a specific time is how ebay does it.  They probably know what they are doing.

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Bids going up 1 point at a time sounds bad. The problem with tightening the time to bid to 12 hours is that we could be spread out in so many time zones it might not be easy for some people to post in time.

There is no easy way around it.*

Either people have limited time to bid, or the auction takes for ever.*

Thats why I was thinking, go up by a minimum of 1 for the first 12 hours, even five after 12, even 10 after 20 or 23 hours.*

So you can re-open the bidding late, but not with some penny ante bull shit.*

That might not be the best solution, it might not help at all but its a stabe at it.*

You could also limit the total number of bids.* 2 free bids per atribute.* After that you have 16 total bids to spend between all auctions.* That might seriously limit bidding though and the rivialries start with bidding wars.*

Only allow 3 bids total for everyone for each 10 point increment?* So bids could be 20, 25 and 26, but the next bid must be 30 or better.* Then 2 more bids max till 40 etc.

Or you know what, I might be making a bid deal over nothing.* Has anyone done an online auction before.

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« Reply #50 on: December 20, 2017, 06:37:12 AM »
... I don't know much about bidding wars as this will be my first one, but couldn't we just send in MP our first bid, for all abilities (ability classes?) at the same time?

such an example:
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first bid for Ego/Might/Fortitude/Prowess = 40/2/13/25

I also think we will need 24 hours at least for one bid, because depending on timezone and internet access some people might only be able to react/post on bids once per day. Chirine ba kal talks with me about a different game and in his case he seems to use it twice (in the morning and late night) unless busy/tired which means even less. Other people might be in a similar situation and some people who have shown interest in joining didn't post a second time yet, and will need to be contacted first.

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« Reply #51 on: December 20, 2017, 09:12:26 AM »
Auction 1 at a time is best.  It puts more pressure on the bids.

Ebay does fine with bid deadlines.  1 day only for each trait might be a bit short, but its probably the best way.


You can always buy up after.

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« Reply #52 on: December 20, 2017, 12:44:10 PM »
From Lords of Olympus page 120 and 121

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« Reply #53 on: December 20, 2017, 12:46:15 PM »
Should we move this thread to the Play by Post Games forum?

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« Reply #54 on: December 22, 2017, 12:29:50 AM »
Moving?  Fine with me.  Play by post or the Amber fourm?


What kind of setting or theam you thinking?  Is it going to be heavy into greak myth?  Are we going to be confined to the bronze age?  

If I remember correctly in the Olympus rule set you can't bring an entire amy with you through shadow.  But you canin Amber.  Which way you want to go witj it?

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« Reply #55 on: December 22, 2017, 09:32:38 PM »

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« Reply #56 on: December 24, 2017, 12:00:33 PM »
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Should we move this thread to the Play by Post Games forum?


Thanks for the offer, but no need to move it as a new thread is started there by the GM, and this one should stay so those who previously have shown interest can find us again.

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« Reply #57 on: December 26, 2017, 01:59:58 AM »
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