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1) As I've already wrote, there is still some advantage also in auto-bid system.

2) Currenlty the game is mainly aimed to users who can play it whenever they can, by that less potential users will play it.

3) This game is not about being active.
It is about managing a team.
A better manager is not defined by the time you have to spend playing it.

4) On current auction system without auto-bid you can change the name and purpose into:
BA - Be Awake!
As this factor is one of the most dominant factors in the game and it should not be so.

1) By definition this game is dedicated for the majority of users and the plan of the game creator is that as much of users will play it.
The majority of people cannot play whenever they want.

2) Playing whenever you want does not make you a better manager and frastrate the others who can't and who may leave (or left) the game.

3) Automation is not a word that should not be spoken.

4) The game does not test how flexible your time is.
It tests and was created to simulate the manging skills of a basketball team.

a thing with the autobidding system which wonders me all the time, that it is always discussed and suggested coexisting to the current bidding system.

Personally i think both system have their advantages and disadvantages(bidwars are sometimes fun for me), but i don't think that it would be fun for me to bid against the "system" where i know that it won't forget to bid and none of my trys to win a bid war through the placing time of a bid might work.

Another point who might play a role here, are the money gained by ads during a bit war with non supporters.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 10/21/2011 2:02:58 AM

in this case the auto bid is useless, and you should go for bidding the amount you like to py for early.

But if it isn't considered as fun to bid against a bot, there is imho no way of coexistenting of both. And as i said i think both system have there ups and downs.

But i dont know if i think a new bid system is needed.

i don't have a favourtie system too, so i would say stay with the old one without investing time creating the new system.

I've already answered the point you have raised.

First, the auto-bids are the ones that are first executed, and are executed "fast". no need to wait and see how it raises.
It goes until the last bid each auto-bid can set.

Then, the online users can fight their bid-wars.
More presicely, they have the advantage to put their bid in the first one and an half minutes prior of the auto-bids "last-bid".

It gives answer to both options.

Again, there is no reason to give an advantage to those who can play it whenever they can, and by that chasing away all others that are the majority of users.
Playing whenever you can does not define you as a better BB manager.

so you like to put always a bid, and every 30s comes a new one by the system, which never forget to bid etc? I don't like that, and i believe i am not the only one. For me that isn't a answer, for me that would be just a chicane because 30s waiting would be frustrating me.
I don't say that autobid is bad, but i really doubt that both could co exist in a funny way.

And i also think a lot of player here are still able to buy players they want ;)

I didn't understood what you've meant...

I'll try and give an example (that I think I've already gave...).

Two users sets and auto-bid for an auction that will start at 00:00.
They will set their bids to 5K and not more than 100K (the same for both).

Let's say that each bid should be with 5K from the previous bid, just for convenient.

The auction starts.
At 00:00 the system calculates who should get the last bid between the auto-biders.
Let's say that it is user-A, and this means that the current bid is 95K.

Now the bid-war is free to all.
In case a user put it's bid before 00:01:30, then the auto-bid is over, and the auction is only against the online bidders (unless another user will put a new auto-bid).
Let's say no one had put a new bid until that time, so now it is user-B turn to put its last bid (100K).

Another suggestion that could be added to satisfy the online biders (although I think that there is no reason to do so, as the game is BB managing, as I already wrote) is to define half of the auctions to allow auto-bids and the other half not...

Again, I believe that this game is not about live auctions but about BB managing.
As such, an auto-bid system is an necessity, and in my opinion all auction should be such.