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Game idea: Bidding for PRTs Sun, 24 February 2013 02:58 Go to previous message
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 Having just finished my first game in 10 years, I'm eager to start another. I missed a few other games that just started, so I thought I'd take a shot at hosting one and run the idea past people here, first. (I'd rather play a game that someone else hosts, but even if I do, I'm happy to set up this bidding for someone else's game.)

The short version is that you keep bidding on one PRT at a time until you get one. Then, if someone else outbids you for that PRT, you resume bidding until you again have a PRT. Bidding ends when everyone has a PRT. Your race must use at least as many points as your bid on defenses.

This works for up to 8 players. Everyone will wind up playing a different race, but you will not know who has which race until you encounter them in-game and figure it out. You also will not know the history of who bid how much for which PRT. There are no restrictions on LRTs or anything else. The idea here is that if any particular combo is overpowered (in general or for a particular game setup), people will bid a lot of points on it and bring it back in line.

In the first round of bidding, everyone submits a bid on one PRT. After all bids are in, I'll announce the winning amount for each PRT. (Ties go to the earlier bidder.) Everyone who lost a bid will participate in the next round of bidding, and so on until everyone has a PRT. If you won a PRT in a previous round, you can still be outbid for that PRT. In that case, you'll bid again next round. The last PRT chosen (and possibly a few others) will be won with a bid of 0. These races can spend leftover points (if any) on anything.

There can be many rounds of bidding, so here are a few other rules to make this go faster:
- Bids are in increments of 10 points.
- Bidding is e-bay style. You bid the max you're willing to pay. If you have the highest bid for a PRT, the amount that is announced to everyone else, and the amount you must leave over in race design, is 10 over the next highest bid (or the same, if you tie). e.g. If I bid 30 for HE and you bid 80, you will win for 40. If on a later round, someone bids 100, they will get it for 90 and you'll have to bid again next round.
- Bids must be submitted within 24 hours of the announcement of the last bidding result. If you missed your last bid, the first time, you get a warning (and then you bid in the next round). After that, you bid 0 on a random, unchosen PRT. If someone outbids you for that, you can bid again.
- You cannot bid on the same PRT twice in a row.
- After X rounds (X=5?), you are not allowed to bid again on the same PRT. You can rebid on a PRT if you bid on it in the first X rounds -- just not on races you bid on since then.

I know bidding has been done in the past. This way seems like it'd make it easier for people to put in each bid, as they're only considering the one PRT at a time. Also, I can code up a website to support this and still play!

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