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"To help prevent abuse, items placed on auction would not appear on the auction screen until after a random amount of time between 30 minutes and 4 hours has passed."
This is not long enough. Some items are so rare that it is likely they will be the only one up for sale. Therefore a cheater has the certain knowledge that this is HIS item if he waits for 4 hours. To make there always be an element of doubt the maximum possible delay would actually have to be greater than the time the auction takes. Therefore if the auction is to last 24 hours then the maximum possible delay should be 25 hours.
Perhaps i am being too cautious? but this would make things more watertight.
personally I'm completely happy for the idea to go ahead exactly as you propose it....just trying to anticipate the possible multi-loophole argument that usually shoots 'trading' ideas down.
As for items bought from shops not being sellable. I'm not so sure about that. Firstly why shouldn't someone get this benefit? Secondly if items have to be individually 'bonded'[sic] with information about their origin then that is bound to increase 'server load' or whatever the boffins call it. So this is a tech query really for a techie to respond to.
Just wanting to make it an auction idea they cannot refuse.
This is not long enough. Some items are so rare that it is likely they will be the only one up for sale. Therefore a cheater has the certain knowledge that this is HIS item if he waits for 4 hours. To make there always be an element of doubt the maximum possible delay would actually have to be greater than the time the auction takes. Therefore if the auction is to last 24 hours then the maximum possible delay should be 25 hours.
Perhaps i am being too cautious? but this would make things more watertight.
personally I'm completely happy for the idea to go ahead exactly as you propose it....just trying to anticipate the possible multi-loophole argument that usually shoots 'trading' ideas down.
As for items bought from shops not being sellable. I'm not so sure about that. Firstly why shouldn't someone get this benefit? Secondly if items have to be individually 'bonded'[sic] with information about their origin then that is bound to increase 'server load' or whatever the boffins call it. So this is a tech query really for a techie to respond to.
Just wanting to make it an auction idea they cannot refuse.