[Official] New Auctions Tutorial - Changes & New Features

[jcohen42]

Santa, I do believe that you are not a Nordeus agent. I will go through your points to tell you my side of things

1. Its quick. If you need to sell a player, you get a result in 4 minutes instead of waiting several hours. If you fail to sell, you will get next chance in 4 minutes. If you want to buy a player, and he is available, he is yours in 4 minutes. If he is not available, in 4 miutes you get another chance. I like the speed.

I can see why the speed is good, but if you really need to sell a player in a couple minutes, rather than 2 hours or so, then that's what the Quick Sell button is for. I don't see why they had to bring the timer all the way down to 4 minutes, it seems like a really drastic difference. For buying players, I do think that having a new set of players every 4 minutes is not inherently a bad idea, but the fact that they are all Nordgens, and that all human-sold players just disappear into nothing, shows that it's probably not good in execution. I think if they had just kept the old system and made the auction time an hour, or 45 minutes, for every player, they'd solve this problem.

2. I think it will save me many tokens when buying. Before, I lost most tokens on lost auctions. I went to the auction, and after several rounds the price had already became too high, but I kept bidding however, because I wanted to prevent myself from loosing the tokens when I quit. At the end, I bought the player for much more tokens I intended at the beginning. And from time to time, I really had to quit and lost much more tokens for nothing. Now, I can set my limit for buying the player, and if the auction goes higher, I simply quit without any loss and try another player if few minutes. Much better for me.

For me, the new system will definitely cost me more tokens. I actually played auctions smartly and I'd never go above 2 or 3 rounds unless I really desperately needed the player. It's your prerogative to keep going in the auctions, and you get punished by losing more tokens. I think this new system of returning tokens rewards risk more and punishes pragmatism. Which, no offense, you seem more like a risk-taker than a pragmatic player, and I think it's wrong for the game to reward that.

3. I think there will be higher chance to sell. Maybe it depends on the server and level, but at my level (14) on my server I was not really able to sell players lately. I tried to sell two players before today and I kept failing to sell for 7 days (!!!). I lost my academy player because I was not able to make room for him in my squad. Today, I sold both during 5 attempts. Maybe your server at your levels are more busy and you always sold, but obviously it depended on the server. If the new system brings more consistency across the servers, I like it.

I think this is actually somewhat of a benefit of the new system, because I also had trouble selling players recently. However, I think this was mainly due to the constant high quality of players on the transfer market, and not because of anything wrong with the actual auction system. While it's nice that players get sold now, it's sad that the players just disappear. I liked following where my players went after being sold, and now I cannot do that at all.

Many of you say its insane when lvl3 manager can bid against lvl40 manager. Why? I dont care who bids agains me at all. Whats the difference? What matters is the _number_ of people bidding, not their levels. If the new system shows there are tens managers bidding at each player, and at the end it will cost you i.e. 30 tokens to win each player, then yes, lets complaint. I am watching the current today auctions and most of the players, including the best ones, young ones, etc. are available for 1 token. Whats wrong with that, guys? Of course, lets see what happens at the beginning of the next season. But I believe there will still be chances to buy for low, without a risk of loosing tokens when quitting the auction. But lets wait and see.

I really disagree with this; I think there is a big difference. Plain and simple, players should be competing with players of the same level. That was the whole appeal of the game to me, that as you move up, you keep facing players of similar levels. So when you're a level 41 like me, and you can't bid for a player cheaply because of a beginner who hasn't figured out how to use tokens smartly yet, it's aggravating. Also, the fact that players cost different amounts depending on who buys them is also annoying to me. The fact that we are seeing players go for 10+ tokens in the dying embers of this season makes me think that players will be even more expensive at the start of the next season.

Many of you ask "why the hell does the stupid Nordeus fix something it is not broken"? The fact you do not see something broken does not mean it really is not broken. You need to consider there are 150 millions of fellow players, different levels, different servers. I can imagine one more reason for the new system. There are many millions of TE users but most of them are low levels. I can imagine the higher level you are, the fewer players you compete with at the same level because people simply quit the game but noone can join the game at level 45 for instance. Logically, at the top levels there are only the managers who started many years ago and their number is continuously decreasing. If they can meet only the same level mgrs on their TM, it may be difficult for these top level managers to buy and sell, and their auction lists may be very limited, especially on some servers. Nordeus needs to deal with this situation somehow otherwise sooner or later the high-level managers on some servers may not be able to buy and sell at all. Cancelling the "same level auctions only" policy may be the response. I am not sure, just trying to think

Yeah, most of the players are low level players. You know why? New players join all the time. The health of an online game like this is measured by its long-time players, and it needs to serve the needs of these long-term players adequately in order to remain healthy. I can assure you, as a long-term player, that while not being able to sell players can be annoying, having to big against level 3s and 4s is infinitely more annoying. There were ways to fix the auction system, yes, but a wholesale change like this was neither wanted nor needed.

There are many other points in the discussion I completely disagree with. For example:
- "Very few players appear on the auction(probably 15-20), and all the managers of the world are open to bid on them!" - Are you sure of it? Are you sure all 150 millions of T11 players worldwide see the same 15-20 players? I dont think so. There may be different lists.

Of course there are different lists, but the problem is that there still aren't enough players available. If they allow managers to buy human players, this would likely be fixed.

- " players with 6* CANNOT be sold as they are 6* for managers at ALL levels and not eliglable for auction" - obviously incorrect. I sold 6 stars player today.

You're right, because sold players go into no-man's-land, with no chance of being bought by a real manager. This is a major problem.

There are few complaints I fully agree with, for example the missing statistics (I also used them to decide whether I wanted the player). But as I said, in general I like the changes, I believe it will make the auctions quicker, it will give us more chances to buy and sell, it will work better across servers, it may also work better at high levels and at the end, I believe it will save us some tokens on lost auctions and on auctions where we buy for more than intended.

I agree that the missing statistics are a major complaint as well. But I think the other issues you bring up could have easily been solved by a minor fix, and not something huge like this. Auction times can be shortened, selling can be calibrated by adjusting the quality of Nordgens, and it most definitely does not work at higher levels.

Since I do think your concerns are valid, I wonder if Nordeus could add back the old Auctions system, and keep this around as a "Quick Auctions" system. The old auctions system would work the same way it used to, maybe with 1 hour auction periods instead of 1-3 hours, and each token used to bid is lost. Sold players would go to this system, so that human managers can buy human-managed players. There would also be a list of 10-15 Nordgens appearing every 5 minutes or so on the "Quick Auctions" list, where teams can bid on players and not have to worry about losing tokens, but the players are likely to cost more overall. This could be a good compromise between the sides.