Hi,
Our Corp had 66 Influence points. We bidded today for a sektor that costed 30. We were alone in that sektor - no other bidders.
Normally we should have had 36 points left. But as we got the sektor all of our points were gone.
I checked seconds bevore if there were other bidders - but no.
Corp: Spaceinvaders
Sektor: WX61
Time and Date: 14.12.2013 - about 14:00 German Time
PS: We really would like to get our missing 36 Points back - :o)
We had the same as there was a last second bid.
At this point all your Points are comitted and the System tries to but it buy using all your Points.
Hi,
i am afraid this cannot be.
If there would have been a last second bid - then it would have had to be lower than ours - cause we got the sector.
So there must have been points left - maybe not all the 36 points but some.
If the last second bidder would have bidded higher than our 66 points - then we wouldnt have got the sector and technically we still would have got 66 points.
But this situation as described above cannot take place - there must be a bug
Hmn, ok, i see
My scenario could only happen if the other bidder has exactly one point less than you.
Would be interested to see the solution too.
Yes if there would have been a corp that would have had 65points and would have been as a challenger in the same sector
it would have been possible.
But i watched the bidding till the last second and there was no other bidder in the sector. We defenitelly were alone there
Here I am thinking this is actually the intended setup… that is, to curb the bigger corps from amazing a wealth of points and taking over all the sectors, ie. zerg corps… This way even the smaller corps have a chance of owning a sector every once in a while…
From the Dev blog,
- When the winner is decided, all points are reverted to zero for the winning corporations — this will allow all corporations, even the small ones, to participate in seizing control of locations. While a location is controlled by the a corporation, another corporation can not control it.
When you bid on a Sector you Bid your ALL influence, it doesn’t matter if minimum bid is 2x smaller than what you have, and it doesn’t matter if some one else bid or not (less than your whole influence pool) IF you win a sector you loose ALL of your influence
Bid early, bid often?
We bidded for a cash sector earlier in this game.
We had 30 influence points - minimum bid in this sector was 20 influence points - we got the sector with no other challenger and had 10 points spare.
This is how it should work.
It would be the same if i would bid for a house in real life.
I go to the auction wit 500000 cash - the house is listet for 250000 - if there would be an other bidder - the price would raise.
But if there is no other guy interested and i bid for the house - then i get it with another 250000cash in my pockets.
That is not how a bidding works!
They cannot say “sorry sir you have brought 500000cash to the auction - so the prize is 500000”
Seriously - there is a bug in this system and i would like an OFFICIAL of the game to answer this question.
I really like your opinions here - but i dont want to start a huge discussion.
The minimun bid is X and your total points are Y. When u bid for it you always bid Y, not X.
That’s how it woks in this game.
This is not how a bidding works - i am sorry!
And i already pointed out that we aquired a sector before where we didnt spend all our points.
Please don t post personal opinions here - i want a gamemaster or gameofficial to answer this!
This is not how a bidding works - i am sorry!
And i already pointed out that we aquired a sector before where we didnt spend all our points.
This is how bidding works in this game. I’ve played games where bidding works: You have 1 hour to bid, you bid 1 million credits, other guy bids 2 millions and gets the item, you lose your million anyway.
Every game has different bidding “mechanics” or whatever you wanna call them, and this is how it works here.
Please don t post personal opinions here - i want a gamemaster or gameofficial to answer this!
It wasn’t a personal opinion, I’m just explaining you how bidding works in Star Conflict.
Ok
This can not be the way it works here.
I ll explain it once again:
Scenario 1:
We had about 30 Points - we bidded for a sektor - minimum bid was 20 points - no other challengers - we got the sektor - we had about 10 Points left in storage - all fine
Scenario 2:
We had 66 Points - we bidded for a sektor - minimum bid was 30 points - no other challengers (i checked till bidding was over) - we got the sektor - we had no points left - where did the remaining 36 points go??? → BUG
Scenario #1 is the bug - scenario 2 is how it is meant to work.
Good think I learned this yesterday when I wasted 110 points on a 40 point sector. Sorry guys :((
So bid early, bid often.
Ok now i get it - to keep the chances even every corp bids all influence point at each bid!
That must have been changed with the last patch. This would explain the differences between the described scenarios.
Now that i know that its ok - But it would be good if that would be announced somewhere
So that Corpleaders dont waste points
If you win, the game takes the rest of your points away, THATS how it works
That must have been changed with the last patch. This would explain the differences between the described scenarios.
It was that was since the first day of SecCon 2.0. It hasn’t changed.