Auction Tactic or Just Pure Noob??

[gizzmo]

I've seen on many scenarios, players submit staggering amount of tokens at one go. For example

Player A: Submits 1 Token
Player B: Submits 2 Tokens
Player C: clicks 17x and is now offering 20 Tokens!

Now, is Player C just being silly at doing that??? I don't see any benefits of raising the amount of tokens that way. Unless, he/she just wants other players to spend more tokens.

It's a common strategy. It has only one real advantage: it saves time. Instead of adding one token after the other and wait for 10 sec, you go "straight to the point". It can also give you a psychological advantage but IMO, it's less efficient that with the old system when you actually had to pay to raise the auction. When I face someone like that, I behave in the exact opposite fashion: I add 1 T at the very last second, just to piss him off! And sometimes, he just turns crazy!