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I like the idea of enforcing a cool off time between bids, perhaps no more than one bid every 5 minutes. The incremental bids at the end get boring.

I don´t think Wolphs "blind bidding" in the last 5 minutes works, but I think he´s on the right track.

I´d leave everything as it is, just that I wouldn´t "extend" the timeout for an auction for more than 5 minutes in total at alll. So if a player sells on 9:30, he will sell no later than 9:35.
If someone else places a last second bet on him, on that last deadline, fine. No option to "react" anymore. So if you want that player, better make sure that ...

(1) you offer some "serious" money, maybe even "overpay", before the hard deadline appears.
(2) don´t take that "miniumum" raise for granted.

So for example, player X should sell on 9:30. You place a bet on him, and nothing happens, until a last second user decides to take a shot at him shortly before the deadline expires. He gets extended to 9:33, as it is now, and both teams enter a classic bidwar, just that after the deadline extended to 9:35, no more "extra time" is added. So after 9:33, everybody has to change his strategy, the forever-minimum raising stops, and people kinda have to play with open cards.

Your "solution" would only give last second bids more interest... Very bad idea in my opinion.

I find it funny, that super rich (being in the top league), always try to find short cuts to make more money.

super rich = "I don't wanna have to do a bid war. I want to buy this play for X coin, cause they are a really good value. I don't want someone else to be able to beat me out of a dollar, because they see it too. If they start a bid war, it will cut into my profits. hmph."

I'm not even a daytrader, and I don't like this suggestion. Man up, and grow a pair.

Hardly, I think you don´t fully understand my suggestion.

Sure, the "highest bid" wins, but a last second bet cannot trust himself beeing "the highest", so the tideous "minimum raising" on for forever would stop. People would have to seriously think about "how much" they´d be willing to offer straight up when entering a bidding war, and I´d go so far and predict that doing it like that the amount of the "last second bets" would seriously drop because (1) the offer from any other team would not be a "let´s try a bet" offer but a serious run at a player with a reasonable (or overpaying) number and (2) the risk of actually losing out on a player because someone else just entered SOME bet you cannot guess is too high.

If you have three or maybe more bidders enganged, until 19:34 everybody would most likely test out the market to go for the cheap transfer, but afterwards everybody has to be alert, his next bet CAN be his last one, maybe he has one, max two more to go, so you better bid a SERIOUS amount and not count on beeing able to raise it late (as the current price might have been running away and your bid is invalid) before taking the risk of losing it at all. People would stop the minimum raising marathon and play with open cards - one shot chance. If you see another max bet and choose to go for "yet another" offer for whatever reason, fine, but anybody waiting for the last second to place his bet might lose out because someone else is doing something similar just with a significant raise, so that the last second bidder drops out.

Basically I like them all.

I would only say that this suggestion is more about handling the day-traders, while the auto-bid system is for making this game more about BB managing and less about testing how flexible your time is.

So they are not one instead of the other, but a complementary one to the other.