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MT Ebay

Tue, 13 March 2007 07:38

Carn

Officer Cadet 4th Year

Messages: 284
Registered: May 2003

The MT is tired of travelling blindly for decades through space, never knowing when and where customers show up. And he heard enough of "@#$%!, i gave 9800 kt for AMT crap".

So he sells his stuff befaore universe creation and so he does not need to trade further he sells licences.
But payment is in race wizard points.

Game settings:

8 players
skill level: experience with MT parts and their usage in multiplayer is helpful, so intermediate preferred
medium normal distant
no random events
public player scores in y 50
turn gen 5 days or 7 days a week(host often without access at weekends, but doesn't play)
no playing host
no accbbs(vote(changed))
leftover points have to be spent on defenses, unless left over points are >45+price for MT parts.
winner by consent
(no restrictions on PRTs)
Edited to add: 3-4% HEs are forbidden - they have so many points, that they would screw up the whole bidding process. 5% and higher HEs are ok.

Either 0 or 1 turn done by host, therefore accbbs would be possible, if player want it(changed)

For sale are:

Multi Contained Munition
Anti Matter Torpedo
Hush-a-Boom
Alien Miner
Multi Cargo Pod
Jump Gate
Multi Function Pod
Langston Shell
Mega Poly Shell
Enigma Pulsar
Mini Morphchanged
Genesis Device(not tradeable)changed

Sold is the ability to build the item when the required techs are researched and the right to the item.
This means, that only the buyer may have design slots containing the item

(This is because paying lots of race wizard ponts for hush-a-boom and then the enemy gets it in the first battle, where he shot down just one mini bomber is unfair.)

and those the buyer permitted to have slots using the item. About any such permission the host has to be informed, upon which the host will publish in the game forum on autohost, which race is now allowed to build which item, but not who gave the permission.

(This is, so that the diplo power of certain items can be realy used, but so that it is still easy to spot cheaters, but also so, that who bought which MT part has not to be revealed earlier than wanted)

Permissions can be retracted with a ingame message with a 10 year period, so if in 2435 the message is received, all design slots containing the item have to be removed in 2445(and host will check in 2446).
e.g. if player bought items for 100 points, he can either have 100 or more points left and has to spend them on defenses or he can have 145 or more points left and spent them on anything.

(this is meant to discourage players from not buying anything and then allying with others to get stuff and then destroying them.)

Please pm me about taking part before doing any bidding, bidding should only be done by people who realy join afterwards, so no dropout if you realize you crippled you're race by paying too much.

Auction is done at the bar (http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/index.php?t=msg&th=338 1&rid=264&S=1a5fb2b144d2598e70daeb47bd83b48d&pl_ view=&start=0#msg_32003) and will end at 12.04(earlier end possible if all 8 players ask to do so), so results will be known on 13.04.
Auctioning is done by sending me and stating what bid is done for which item, -1 for items you are not interested in or just leave them out.

New bids and old bids confirmed will be displayed at least once a day around 12.00 my time, which is if i think correctly 11GMT(currently i have 12.00), more often if there is hot bidding.

Highest bid obviously gets the item.

Then 2 weeks for race creation, submitted races must have price for bought items leftover spend on defenses or 45+price leftover spend on anything(to allow for strats that need leftover points e.g. -m-f race with alien miner and OBRM).

To keep the spirit of ebay:
In the first week of the 2 weeks after finishing of official auction, individual players can make auctions with bought items at the bar, with any offers and bids being posted there.
Host has to be informed by how much the point penalty of the buying player is increased at the first day of next week, by the same amount the penalty of the seller will be lowered.

This is meant as a safety hook for risky bidders, who want to disrupt certain strategies, by bidding for certain items without wanting them.
If they accidentally get them nonetheless, they can sell them at the bar to get something for their unwanted stuff.

Every item will be sold only once, every player can buy any number of items, items will be giving by modification of hst file in turn 0.changed

Therefore no minerals will be received either.changed

When all races are in and confirmed, playing of first turn by host will take a few days, then game will be sent to autohost.changed

Please do any discussion about sensible prices in the ebay thread at the bar and feel free to spread any false propaganda there to modify prices in your favour - convince them it is sensible to pay 100 points for the multi cargo pod or 300 for the MPS and win the game easy by buying nothing.

Edited to add clarification of leftover points.

edit to change game description for newly learned method to give MT parts to players.

[Updated on: Fri, 16 March 2007 07:36]