Auction System Launched

[Pri]

It is live, go and have fun! http://shop.renmx.com/auctions.php

I'm sure there are going to be lots and lots of questions so I'm going to just go through a few here in quick succession.

1. It uses the same login system as the normal shop and the referral page. You don't need to login again if you have already logged in to the shop.
2. You need to be inside the game to make new listings as the items are taken from your inventory.
3. You need to be inside the game to stop one of your own listings early, retrieve items you've won or buy items
4. You do NOT need to be inside the game to place a bid on an item
5. When you place a bid the money is taken from you instantly and "held". If you are outbid or the owner of the listing withdraws it before the end you will get the money back.
6. You are notified in-game when someone outbids you on something
7. You can list things for any amount of money you want, you can set a minimum starting bid and your own buy price
8. We have over 400 items already in the Auction database and more will be added soon!

If you have any other questions don't hesitate to reply in this thread. If you find any bugs please report them in this thread, the Auction system is beta and we are looking for bugs.

[Psico45]

Nice Nice I already see a few people using the system.

[Pri]

First set of changes today.

• 1. When you type in a bid and hit enter it will now bid on the item instead of buying the item. (Bug reported by Pomp)
  
  2. If someone buys your item, outbids you, wins an item you've listed or buys an item you were bidding on and you were NOT on the server at the time any of these things occured you will now receive an in-game /mail so when you login later you can see what occured.
  
  3. When you are outbid on something and the listing is still on the Auction system the text will highlite yellow instead of the default black. This is so you can quickly see what you need to bid on again.
  
  4. In your personal + menu you will see a new section for stuff you've been outbid on.

I will be adding the option for email alerts and granular controls so you can decide which events trigger a message to you and you can select whether you want things in-game only, email only or both.

I'm also going to be adding searching and user specific filtering so that you can quickly see only the listings for the items you want or only the users you want.

[Pri]

Just thought I'd give you guys some stats. Since launching the Auction system 24 hours ago there has been 223 listings posted to the site. It's a success!

[Pri]

First change of the day, you can no longer supply a number with a decimal place. If you try to enter something like 2.0000001 as your bid it will appear as a 2. Your bids are rounded to their closest whole number.

[CraftminerX]

Your bids are rounded to their closest whole number.

Starting bids (and "Buy Now" prices, I guess) don't get rounded though.

Edit: Also...

[Pri]

It does now. I left that out because I just made the bidding change quickly via my phone. I have now made the change enforced on new listings.

This is not a retroactive change so things already listed with fractions will stay that way.

EDIT:// I see you edited your post, again this is not retroactive to past things, only to new bids and new listings.

[Psico45]

All and all, looking very nice Pri. Great Job!

[Pri]

Changes today:

• 1. Bidding, Quantities, Starting Bid Price & Buy Now Prices are now rounded to the nearest whole number.
  
  2. New items have been added to the database including all Coloured Wool Carpets, Coloured Clay Blocks, Horse Armour, Leads and other v1.6.1 items
  
  3. In the Add a new listing section you will see a new box to input how many of a listing you wish to make. This is a quick way to make multiple separate listings of the same type.
  
  4. When you have something listed for auction you now only receive a message when the first person bids and when the winner of your auction retreives the items (And you are paid). You no longer receive a message every time someone bids for your auction as it's too spammy.

I just want to explain the 3rd one. This works just as if you were listing the items yourself x amount of times with the exact same information.

So now instead of listing for example 1 saddle in a single listing you can list 10 saddles across 10 listings with a single submission instead of having to fill out all the boxes 10 times.

The reason I have limited this to 10 is to make sure you guys don't go crazy.

Here is a screenshot illustrating the new dropdown:

[Pri]

New update this morning, there is now a search tab next to the + tab so you can search for items. It supports partial matches (so dia will give you Diamond results) and it is case insensitive.

It does not yet suggest to you items that are already in the Auction House but I will add that later today after I wake up. I'll also be adding the notification settings menu probably today.