Auction January 17th 2020

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Auction January 17th 2020

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There will be an auction on Sunday, 17th of January, at 21:00 shard time.

The auction will be hosted by +Kimane.
See you there!

Jan 16th @ 0:30 shard time: items are now on display at the auction room. Here's also a list (text format).
If you have any questions about any of the items, or you found an issue with anything, please reply to this thread. When the auction is underway, it's hard for us to decide within moments whether to make adjustments, or to pull an item.

Ethereal Gaman
Ethereal Skeletal Dragon
Excelsiorian Sandals
Ethereal Dye Tub
Legendary Halberd
Mystical Sextant of Control
Runic Smithy Hammer
1000 Tailor's Florins
Bamboo flute (infinite uses)
Pixie on perch
Lightning Dip tub
Celtic Ankh (east)
Halloween Spider Forest
Bunk Beds addon
Deathly Bridge addon
Rabbit Pen Large addon
Fountain Barrel addon
Flayed Corpse Stasis Chamber
Glass Gazebo addon
Romantic Picnic addon
Sitting Area 6 addon
Valentines Cupid addon
Personal Trainer Bodystyle Change Deed
Sorcerio's Footprints effect
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Re: Auction January 17th 2020

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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot.

Although I am broke so will mainly be spectating.
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is it soon yet?
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Culichi you know everytime +C says soon he means the day before lol
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Re: Auction January 17th 2020

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Items are now on display, 46 hours before the auction! :mrgreen: Original post also updated with the list of items in text format.

Btw, it's now also possible to review auction history. Doubleclick the auction stone, and you'll see the button there. There is currently not yet a way to see an item's history when it's on display, so to find past prices of an item, you'll have to do some browsing in the history. I plan to make it so that you can doubleclick the "display pedestal" (stone block on which an item is displayed on) to view history for that particular item.

An idea often comes up - to make some auctions available only for players up to a certain age (e.g. up to 1 month, or 6 months). Well, it would be nice to make some items more affordable for non-veterans, but there's a few reasons why this is not a good solution:
- most importantly, auctions are an end-game thing, something for veterans to burn their gold on. The more gold we sink here, the better it is for the economy. Some gold is obtained by intense farming by those who then go to auctions, but some of the gold is also from various players, and through trade that gold bubbles up to the veterans (as is the standard dynamics of any market, the rich get richer, can't fight nature on that one...)
- even at 1 month, or 6 months, players progress to a different stage at a very different rate. So there will definitely be inequality.
- It's likely that the items will just be proxy-bought by veterans, using a newbie as someone who buys, then transfers the item to the player who actually wanted to buy the item. Some items could be made account-bound, but that would complicate things. If anything, this would probably be the only solution to make such auctions work.
- Since donation ED can be turned into gold, such auctions would become more of a benchmark of which newbie donated most.

So we have no plans to make such newbie auctions. I think there was a player-organized auction a while back with that focus. Btw, by using [account it's possible for any player to show a certificate of account age, so it's possible to make a player-organized auction where you only let newbies into the house (by making the house private and granting each certified newbie friendship status to the house).
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Nice array of items. Some of the deco is pretty cool. Pixie is very newt. The Legendary Halberd is quite epic, not ancient calibre, similar in powr to an ancient Yumi but obviously and AoE weapon... Has a very unique name though.

I swear the flute has like 200000000 uses, not infinite, is that right?
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qbf wrote:I swear the flute has like 200000000 uses, not infinite, is that right?
If you were to use it once every 10 seconds, continuously, that works out to about 63 years. "Functionally" infinite.
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But sadly it is not exceptional so the loot isn't that particularly useful. I craft 20-30 lutes and toss all non-exceptional ones... then keel all the exceptional ones in a stack in the lower-left corner... they usually last a few weeks...
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It's once every second, and would last 60-ish years. But this is just a temporary state, when I update the code it will display "infinite".
A lot of computers keep time based on "seconds since Jan 1st 1970". Since it's represented as a 32-bit integer in most systems/frameworks/computers, that way of timekeeping will expire in 2038, which will in a way be similar to the Y2K problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

As for the exceptional on the flute, I'll think about it, thanks for pointing that out.
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Gaman sold to Diz for 19,000,000 Gold
Ethereal Skeletal Dragon Statuette sold to Filraen Rilyntar for 70,000,000 Gold
Excelsiorian Sandals sold to Fist for 17,000,000 Gold
Singular Dye Tub sold to ButteryBiscuits for 15,000,000 Gold
Legendary Halberd sold to Bexley Providnce for 51,000,000 Gold
Mystical Sextant Of Control sold to DreamStalker for 4,100,000 Gold
Runic Smithy Hammer sold to Kairoz for 1,100,000 Gold
1000 Tailor's Florins sold to Funsalow for 1,000,000 Gold
Bamboo Flute sold to ButteryBiscuits for 21,000,000 Gold
A Deed For A Pixie sold to Eless for 11,000,000 Gold
Lightning Dip Tub sold to Vara for 3,500,000 Gold
Celtic Ankh (east) sold to Handrius for 9,300,000 Gold
HalloweenSpiderForest sold to Filraen Rilyntar for 4,100,000 Gold
DeathlyBridge sold to Filraen Rilyntar for 17,000,000 Gold
Rabbit Pen Large East sold to Vara for 4,100,000 Gold
FountainBarrel sold to Fist for 21,000,000 Gold
Glass Gazebo East sold to Chrysanthe for 21,000,000 Gold
Romantic Picnic sold to culichi for 2,800,000 Gold
Sitting Area6 sold to Fist for 12,000,000 Gold
ValentinesCupid sold to culichi for 3,000,000 Gold
Change Appearance Of A Personal Trainer To Daemon (ID 9) sold to Muolke for 19,000,000 Gold
Sorcerio Footprints to Dark Phantom for 46M gold
BunkBedsEast sold to Starfire for 1,700,000 Gold
FlayedCorpseStasisChamber sold to Vara for 480,000 Gold
Kim And Kanye's Divorce Papers sold to culichi for 12,000,000 Gold
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