auction plugin

Support Suggestions Box
#1

I think it would be kind of nice if we had a in game auction plugin. There was one on a server I once played way back when before I heard about PCB and it had a auction plugin and I got a good amount of money out of it. I know we already have a market but I thought this just adds a fun new way to get money.
How this would work:

  1. hold the item(s) in your hand and type the command
    2.have it be a 2 minute duration
    3.people bid on it
    4.The item(s) get sold

Simple and fast. I would like it very much if you staff would look into this. If you want it say yes in the comments and why you want it and if no why not.

#2

100x yes! I was going to suggest this earlier, but I foegot :stuck_out_tongue:

It sucks when I see bids, then if someone wins they try to back out of it. I think this is a much needed pligin.

#3

NONONONONONONONO!

The amount of chat spam these plugins create is STUPID. I once left a server purely because it had an auctions plugin. Especially floauctions.

#4

in agreement with octo here, the spam caused by it is horrendous

#5

Perhaps have a spwcial Trade section of the chat? That way, if you dont want to be apart of it your dont have to.

#6

Separate chat would fix that issue, and allow people to skip the use of the forums for such events. Still, we would need something to keep EVERYONE from trying to auction all the time.

#7

Auctions would run one after the other am I right?

#8

Yeah, from the plugin I saw, the auctions would create a queue (max of 5 or something) so it didn’t spam multiple at once.

I think multiple chat would be needed even if we didn’t get this plugin, perhaps sections like:

General
Advertising/Business
Towns/Building
Creative

#9

I think having that many chat sections is going to rip apart the social community that we have.
People like me who just randomly listen to everyone and staff that can’t pin point issues because people are in different channels will get annoyed.

#10

With multiple channels, it may end up a bit like teamspeak, with everyone split up.

#11

NONONONONONONONONONO. Separating chat would cause a repeat of the whole TS factions channels. ATM we have player & staff chat. That’s good enough.

#12

You’re telling me you don’t think the chat is cluttered…?

#13

it’s cluttered, but I still manage to have multiple conversations at once

#14

What would be the point of splitting chat up? We may as well just have a seperate server for survival and creative, it will split the community just as much.

What we need is something like the swear block, where you have a toggleable command to show or hide chat from the auction plugin.

#15

I don’t want to split the chat more than it is, but IF we try such a channel, it would only be used to vote for auctions. No chatting. I don’t want people running off to the auction channel just to chat.

Or what Ruby just said. I just don’t want to see auction babble.

#16

I think a toggle-able auction chat would be a good idea, but we’d have to make sure people don’t just chat in it

#17

But how would people know that an auction was starting, so they could switch?

#18

The server could /broadcast “An Auction has started! Blah blah blah!”

#19

it would spam a lot though :confused: which is what me and octo were saying earlier, plugins that do that cause too much spam, because it broadcasts to everyone the latest prices etc etc

#20

Could there be some kind of command blocking the “an auction has started” thing, just like the /ignore command