I understand your points, and in an ideal world I would probably rather bid on players myself. But I guess I thought part of the games goal is not to advantage players based on the amount of time they can put in. I.e. The more hours you put in shouldn't give an advantage in the game. I realise that you have found a way around the problem by only selling at peak hour times, and I do the same. But the problem, in my opinion, is that Aussies have to do this because otherwise their players won't sell for as much. This means that players from Australian teams (especially players that are Australian nationality) are being sold at peak hours, which means not many Australian teams are going to be on, and so we are losing all of our Australian bred players to other countries.
Having an autobid feature would decrease "peak hour" as players could sell at any time and still expect a reasonable sale price. This would decrease server load as it would spread purchasing of players over 24 hours rather than a few hours, it would also allow many Australians to bid on domestic players for their team without having to be awake at 3am to try and outbid the rest of the world.
Maybe an improvement on the Autobid feature could be that there are settings for the autobid. For example if you have an autobid running on a player, then you will appear to be online at any time that the autobid makes a bid and for a short duration after. You could have different "AI" for the auto bid. So you could choose a "Aggressive" option, where your auto bid will bid aggressively (raising by a lot) etc.
Last edited by Naker Virus at 3/20/2010 7:28:44 PM