I keep losing all my auctions, and I don't have a lot of tokens

[Dman2pt]

With low tokens, dont go for players with 18 or 19 years old.
Dont go for player that are near the next star.
If the is already someone that bid on that player, forget and move on, because that mean you need at least 2 tokens to get that player.

Wait until the last 30 seconds to see If someone else bids, then bid in the last 20 seconds and not in the last ones, because that way people that were waiting for the last seconds to bid, might give up.
If a bid war starts check your opponents If they seem token buyer, forget the token, If they are similar to you, try to bid until ROUND 2 or 3, If no one give up, it is probably time for you to give up and minimize your lost.

[Gintaras Račas]

With low tokens, dont go for players with 18 or 19 years old.
Dont go for player that are near the next star.
If the is already someone that bid on that player, forget and move on, because that mean you need at least 2 tokens to get that player.

Wait until the last 30 seconds to see If someone else bids, then bid in the last 20 seconds and not in the last ones, because that way people that were waiting for the last seconds to bid, might give up.
If a bid war starts check your opponents If they seem token buyer, forget the token, If they are similar to you, try to bid until ROUND 2 or 3, If no one give up, it is probably time for you to give up and minimize your lost.

Already doing 1st and 2nd case. Also, there seems to be a bid on literally ANY player: no one gives a damn whether the player is 21 o 27, whether he's 2SP or 2* from scout...

[andrewh]

With low tokens, dont go for players with 18 or 19 years old.
Dont go for player that are near the next star.
If the is already someone that bid on that player, forget and move on, because that mean you need at least 2 tokens to get that player.

Wait until the last 30 seconds to see If someone else bids, then bid in the last 20 seconds and not in the last ones, because that way people that were waiting for the last seconds to bid, might give up.
If a bid war starts check your opponents If they seem token buyer, forget the token, If they are similar to you, try to bid until ROUND 2 or 3, If no one give up, it is probably time for you to give up and minimize your lost.

I keep seeing that everyone fights over players about to increase a star, but it doesn't make sense to me. I feel like I am being dumb and missing something obvious, but why would this make a difference? Does value take a big jump when a star level is increased?

My inexperienced expectation is that is increases gradually everytime that skill points are added, so that you always pay the correct value and you don't pay an artificially low cost right before a star increase. Is this wrong?

[Gintaras Račas]

I keep seeing that everyone fights over players about to increase a star, but it doesn't make sense to me. I feel like I am being dumb and missing something obvious, but why would this make a difference? Does value take a big jump when a star level is increased?

My inexperienced expectation is that is increases gradually everytime that skill points are added, so that you always pay the correct value and you don't pay an artificially low cost right before a star increase. Is this wrong?

Guess people just like the feeling of achieveing something like a new *. But yeah, it's kinda pointless, especially if it's a 4* soon-to-be 5* player. One of my main rules on the market is "any x0 quality Q 5* player is better than x4/9 quality 4* player".