The Land Auction System

Talion · Oct 7th 2015, 1:11pm

Hi everyone,

we have just released a new article on our upcoming land auction system. Please use this thread to comment and discuss.

Enjoy!

Tezari · Oct 7th 2015, 2:04pm

Whated · Oct 7th 2015, 2:05pm

Really cool update.

This way I can buy all the ready buildings off plebs once I've made myself a billionaire.

Scythian · Oct 7th 2015, 2:09pm

albiononline.com/en/news/land-auction-system

Like Whated said pretty cool...

Interested to see how it effects the bigger guilds having buildings within the city, and intern how that will effect the people that rely on those buildings. (usage tax is going to be off the charts).

I am looking forward to it... bring on the Alpha.

Stormlord · Oct 7th 2015, 2:11pm

This is really cool

if i may raise a concern

surely a guild with a large war-chest could simply out bid these younger guilds

has their been a solution to that @Talion ?

Anthraxy · Oct 7th 2015, 2:12pm

So we're gonna be real estate agent ? Cool

NicZa · Oct 7th 2015, 2:14pm

Looks good and interesting!

Keep them regular updates coming, we love it!

FlufferPope · Oct 7th 2015, 2:16pm

Whated wrote:

Really cool update.

This way I can buy all the ready buildings off plebs once I've made myself a billionaire.

and here lies the issue. The small guy can't own a building plot now. This severely restricts land ownership more than the previous system ever did.

Stormlord · Oct 7th 2015, 2:18pm

truth

It was already an issue but the fact they simply cant sit on it might take larger guilds unawares

Anntor · Oct 7th 2015, 2:18pm

Really interesting way of fighting the "dying plot" due to an owner which already left the game but has hoarded a lot of silver on his account.

Nice change and i would like to see how this "bid auction" plays out (especially for new players who doesn't have tremendous amounts of silver to compete with residents)!

Leandro · Oct 7th 2015, 2:18pm

If @Whated allow me I will use his recent phrase : Welcome to Albion Island Online !

And here again one more new reason for everyone to hide in the islands. Well done !!!

NicZa · Oct 7th 2015, 2:18pm

FlufferPope wrote:

and here lies the issue. The small guy can't own a building plot now. This severely restricts land ownership more than the previous system ever did.

Come on now, islands got a HUGE buff, we need to get a tasty bone too..

Stormlord · Oct 7th 2015, 2:19pm

you can use my island nicza

we got all the cool toys

rikkie · Oct 7th 2015, 2:20pm

I fear also now for a smaller guild that builds up the economy buildings in a city there is no chance when a big guild wanna have it .
This update sounds not so good for me ... we will see what happens in the closed beta

NicZa · Oct 7th 2015, 2:21pm

Leandro wrote:

If @Whated allow me I will use his recent phrase : Welcome to Albion Island Online !

And here again one more new reason for everyone to hide in the islands. Well done !!!

I don't follow...

Snowman · Oct 7th 2015, 2:21pm

This does raise one concern to me regarding the less HC community. That is that you'll have to compete for your own plot economically, which would naturally favor large guilds in the bidding wars against almost any solo player / casual guilds, irrelevant whether the original owner is active or not.

What I would like to suggest here is that the auction would only start when the original owner has gone inactive for a certain period of time, or alternatively has run out of money for the upkeep (Where the upkeep cost might increase gradually for every consecutive day of inactivity after a certain time.) This way soloers wouldn't have to worry about having to be shoved aside as long as they actively use their plot.

Unless something is done to protect smaller guys in cities, the system is essentially forcing them to live in islands. I'd personally want to see smaller guys idling at the town central rather than everybody vanishing into thin air as they're now hanging around the islands.

Tezari · Oct 7th 2015, 2:26pm

The only wrong about this game is private islands, with this system is even easier for new people to acquire a plot of land in any city.
So what is the point to keep private islands?
Why I would spend money in a city if I can have free buildings in my own, forever untouchable place?

Stormlord · Oct 7th 2015, 2:26pm

could this be the time for a cap on player ownership

or

is this the time for a banking system to offer loans to small guild to counter big guild domination

Dagother · Oct 7th 2015, 2:27pm

Thanks for the update, I like the changes, however I'm wondering if 30-days 'rental' duration is too long. Renting a plot for such a long duration gonna be expensive which gonna make the plots viable only for the richest guilds.

I kinda understand the idea behind making the plots twice expensive for previous owner, it stops players from owning a plot infinitely, but the auction should be fair for everyone itself, whoever bid the highest wins.

NicZa · Oct 7th 2015, 2:27pm

Snowman wrote:

This does raise one concern to me regarding the less HC community. That is that you'll have to compete for your own plot economically, which would naturally favor large guilds in the bidding wars against almost any solo player / casual guilds, irrelevant whether the original owner is active or not.

What I would like to suggest here is that the auction would only start when the original owner has gone inactive for a certain period of time, or alternatively has run out of money for the upkeep (Where the upkeep cost might increase gradually for every consecutive day of inactivity after a certain time.) This way soloers wouldn't have to worry about having to be shoved aside as long as they actively use their plot.

Just quick thoughts to counter that a bit:

The guild and alliance owning the city aren't allowed to own plots in that city

If the plot owner is really active, have his bid count higher than 2x, and if he still looses the auction he get's ALL the silver above the 2x bid

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