There is the limit of bidding higher then 10 times the current bid limit at least to stop you from bidding very large amounts of money over the current bid.
But i dont see why there shouldnt be a "are you sure" question when placing a bid with more then 1 minute left on the auction.
It sure wouldn't hurt as i really feel for those that has placed a 300k bid instead of 30k on a player that hardly was worth the 30k and gets the answer to be more careful next time.
I did that once but luckily on a good player so that someone overbid me.
The problem is that even if you have a one-minute cutoff, it's still potentially a crapload of extra "are you sure?" clicks for the user, which translates to more of them on the server as well. When you list a player, you're looking at a player on your roster, deciding to sell and the 72 hours starts when you confirm. On a player you're purchasing (outside of the scenario of rebidding on your own player), you're looking either at a player you found on the TL, one you found on another roster or a link/bookmark you activated - and the clock is already started and running. Bidwars now that have several different users adding bids sniping at the last minutes would simply have double the clicks registering, if not more, because of the timing issues involved in a two bid system:
Let's say there are three minutes left and you and I are about to bid $1k on a scrimmage scrub because I like his hair and you think his teeth look funny. I bid two seconds after you, but I click the "Are you sure?" first (as registered by the server). We clearly could not allow you to have your bid stand because what if you never confirm you're sure -- but now you're introducing a second click in the process and I imagine at some point someone would get too automated in clicking blindly when buying and then just fire the player they've just purchased.
An ideal solution would be some sort of proxy bidding where you can enter an amount you'd be willing to go up to, and of course that feature can include an "are you sure?" mechanism. But I think that is a proposal that has been brought up dozens of times and until there's something new, there's nothing new. ;)
Last edited by GM-hrudey at 4/1/2013 1:28:36 PM