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Quick informal poll:

In an auction, while bidding, if there was an option to instantly notify you (PM or MM or both, you could choose) upon being outbid, do you think you would you sometimes use it? It would look kind of like this.

Quick informal poll:

In an auction, while bidding, if there was an option to instantly notify you (PM or MM or both, you could choose) upon being outbid, do you think you would you sometimes use it? It would look kind of like this.

Plainly, yes.
Would that only count for being outbid or would it be possible to track bids in general this way?

As an aside, things to consider:
PM Limit for non-gold stars (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) So default MM may be better?
Disable the service for the last X minutes? If you're not there you lose anyway and people that enable the service have a clear advantage over those that don't.
I'd actually pay a little fee for that service. No idea how the rest views this...

No.

A week-long auction is just a long ad for the last few minutes. I don't care what happens before then, and I don't need to get pelted with mails while I'm actually bidding.

A week-long auction is just a long ad for the last few minutes. I don't care what happens before then, and I don't need to get pelted with mails while I'm actually bidding.

this time you're right. it would be the void until Saturday and hell on the last hour of Saturday. most likely people will look one or two and ignore the rest.

It would be completely optional, of course, only on items you'd specifically request monitoring on. I remember seeing a number of people complain about how it's not that fun to have to hover around auctions as they're ending to read each post and make sure they see new bids, and so they know when they have to rebid on items they really want - or how if they make a bid on Wednesday and someone outbids them Friday and they'll have to reread everything carefully later to remember what they were bidding on and see whether they still have the highest bid.

(Well, some people are happy to do that for the sake of tactical advantage over those that don't, which is fun for them, but not everyone is like that)

If the auction post gets updated immediately every time there's a new bid, that partially solves the issue, but changes still probably aren't quite as obvious as some people would prefer.

Plainly, yes.
Would that only count for being outbid or would it be possible to track bids in general this way?

Well, theoretically it would be "possible", but that's way too many server pings due to the fact that a very interested bidder only really cares about that one bid on the item after theirs, and whether it exists or not. It's not something I would ever inflict on E-H servers or myself. The interested bidder will have to actually read the updated auction post in the thread to see the current highest bid, or check the [167.114.68.34] auction log and search for the item code if they're really that curious about the full bid chain.

PMs: I don't think they're a limiting factor because
(*) Someone would specifically request notification probably only for one or three items they're really interested in. Multiply by the average number of bids the user makes on an item before winning or giving up and it's still quite low. (I would have to make sure my own "Save a sent copy" and "Track" is disabled, though (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif))
(*) Worst case: maybe someone participates in 10 of my auctions and ends up with a few pages of mails over a few months. So at that point, they would have to take a minute or two to select all in each folder and delete all of them.

Superlatanium, could I request a notification feature?
First part, notify on auction creation for some wanted items.
Second part, notify on being outbid.

So, for #1;
This might be just for me, but I only care about radiant heimdall right now. I would like to not have to check auctions every week.. and just know that 'this week I have to bid'.

My idea was just a moogle mail system where people could send a message to you with a specific title.
Example1 'Register Notification: Legendary Radiant Pants of Heimdall'
Example2 'Delete Notification: Legendary Radiant Pants of Heimdall'


for #2;
I wanted this just so I wouldn't have to refresh the page so often. I have the forum pm system set-up to email me messages.
With that, I can go take a shit without hovering over an auction.

Holy shit, getting riddlemaster, pony image doesn't load, refresh the page, 503
:/

oh well...
You failed to correctly answer the RiddleMaster within the time limit. You lose 2 Stamina.

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This post has been edited by Fudo Masamune: Mar 24 2016, 10:40

Shrining rewards for 75 days

CODE

ManBearPig Tail (677)
    [33] Exquisite
    [150] Superior
    [494] Average

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch (738)
    [2] Magnificent
    [25] Exquisite
    [171] Superior
    [540] Average

Mithra's Flower (676)
    [1] Magnificent
    [29] Exquisite
    [157] Superior
    [489] Average

Dalek Voicebox (700)
    [32] Exquisite
    [160] Superior
    [508] Average

Lock of Blue Hair (922)
    [2] Magnificent
    [47] Exquisite
    [207] Superior
    [666] Average

Bunny-Girl Costume (966)
    [11] Magnificent
    [96] Exquisite
    [436] Superior
    [423] Average

Hinamatsuri Doll (1033)
    [7] Magnificent
    [110] Exquisite
    [487] Superior
    [429] Average

Broken Glasses (982)
    [5] Magnificent
    [97] Exquisite
    [435] Superior
    [445] Average

Black T-Shirt (150)
    [1] Legendary
    [5] Magnificent
    [37] Exquisite
    [107] Superior

Sapling (150)
    [40] Exquisite
    [110] Superior

Unicorn Horn (150)
    [1] Legendary
    [7] Magnificent
    [75] Exquisite
    [67] Superior

Noodly Appendage (150)
    [1] Legendary
    [29] Magnificent
    [120] Exquisite

Shrining rewards for 75 days

You are hard working (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

seems like Mags+ from Bosses and Konata is more an oddity than anything else.
and Saplings seem the worst kind of trophies among the Gods, even though they should be similar to T-shirts at least. but quite low of a sample to speak about nerfing or so.
as for Noodlies, they really seem a tier on their own...

This post has been edited by Scremaz: Mar 24 2016, 16:50

Shrining rewards for 75 days.

You might be the first one who reaches lv500 without any peerless. Keep it up!
*cuddlecuddlecuddle

such bad luck

my luck is really bad with trophies so far (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

no leg drop in 16M trophies worth (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

*cuddlecuddlecuddle

I do love watching that, though...

Oh, my Dear!

I'll always be with you

Get it on

such bad luck

You know my bad luck (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

I've poured about 500k tickets into the lottery, but I won only 6 times and 2 pieces of them are useful.

You might be the first one who reaches lv500 without any peerless. Keep it up!

No, that'll be me.

You know my bad luck (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

I've poured about 500k tickets into the lottery, but I won only 6 times and 2 pieces of them are useful.

you wasted ~100m on lottery O_o
how rich are you?

0 11 You failed to correctly answer the RiddleMaster within the time limit. You lose 1 Stamina.

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err , it seem alot of players that have this anomaly (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

their lvl in forums is below their real lvl in HV (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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err , it seem alot of players that have this anomaly (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

their lvl in forums is below their real lvl in HV (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

They can do something to make the forum update their status. e.g. change title and play a few round.