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15004.28 in reply to 15004.26
Date: 2/5/2008 4:48:29 PM
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You make some good points, but you also make some silly ones. Obviously you can say "why not 4, why not 3, why not 2" etc until it's "why not 1 second" but that doesn't make it a good idea. Obviously there is a sweet spot where it's a good amount of time for all parties involved without being excessively long.

And it's not that I want to Hattrick-ise the BB TL system (far from it, I HATE transfer compare!), it's that 3 minutes is a good range of time. It gives those with slow internet connections time to bid, it's a good bit of time to decide if you want to bid more, etc. There really is no need for it to be 5 minutes.

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15004.29 in reply to 15004.5
Date: 2/8/2008 9:40:50 AM
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Can't we just hire someone to go kick a user's ass when they bid with 10-30 seconds left? You aren't stealing anything buddy, just prolonging the process!!!

I mean, you can try... What if there's 40-90 seconds left in the bidding?

But I do this (sorry) when I am bidding on two similar players that end perhaps an hour apart. The idea is to extend the time of the first guy to coincide with the second guy so I can decide which is the better deal.

Normally, I'm bidding against the same 2-3 teams anyway.

I tend to believe that changing the extension from 5 minutes to 3 minutes wouldn't change this one bit (people do the same crap all the time in HT, and that's a 3 minute extension).

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15004.30 in reply to 15004.1
Date: 2/9/2008 3:32:24 PM
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Well, it often happens that I get disconnected for a couple of minutes. So, I think that a 5 minutes extension prevents this kind of problem (I lost once an auction on hattrick because of that).

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15004.31 in reply to 15004.1
Date: 2/10/2008 12:44:53 PM
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I do not agree - there are users which do daytrading/skilltrading if they like to profit from neverending trading cycle, they have to WAIT a and GET BORED

From: Kermmy

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15004.32 in reply to 15004.31
Date: 2/10/2008 1:06:45 PM
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I do not agree - there are users which do daytrading/skilltrading if they like to profit from neverending trading cycle, they have to WAIT a and GET BORED


I am confused by your response.

Wouldn't a longer extension of time increase their waiting and boredom?

From: Iordanou

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15004.33 in reply to 15004.32
Date: 2/10/2008 1:17:02 PM
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on Hattrick it is 3 minutes - and we have there a LOT of DT/ST teams

here it is 5 minutes and I hope that longer wasting of a time in the market will have the positive efects against daytraders and we normal people can play this game like it should be played

buying/selling of a player for YOUR team should be an event, not fast three minutes something

From: Kermmy

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15004.34 in reply to 15004.33
Date: 2/10/2008 1:43:37 PM
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I agree with your sentiment concerning daytraders, but I don't think shortening the bid time is going to increase/decrease the amount of Daytraders on BB.

IMO, daytraders have nothing better to do than sit on the TL all day anyway, regardless of the time extensions on bids. If they aren't already bored by sitting on the TL all day, then an extension of bid times isn't going to increase their boredom. I think what shortening the time will do is give DT's less time to react/bid on the players they are attempting to buy for DT purposes, especially if they are after more than 2-3 players at any given time.

From: Iordanou

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15004.35 in reply to 15004.34
Date: 2/10/2008 2:18:22 PM
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my god, another DT/ST game, you have a right!

anyway it is at least break against lucky buying of cheep players to sell them right away with profit

I still like 5 minutes:)

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15004.36 in reply to 15004.35
Date: 2/12/2008 1:39:18 AM
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Another suggestion acted upon - 3 minutes is now in effect.

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