[There is no out-bidding]

Hey everyone. First of all i'd like to say i never played the original M.U.L.E. That aside here are my thoughts..

I really dislike the way that land is auctioned. It doesn't really work like a real auction. Here are my biggest problems:

1. There is no out-bidding. You can keep increasing the price no matter how long till you have the money. Real auctions dont work that way. If a player starts with 500. Then that same player cannot raise the bar to 600. First someone else has to outbid him. The way its currently made, enables for artificial price inflation and coupled with my number 2 grudge makes a very annoying tactic.
2. You can back out any time. This is also an incorrect aproach. In a real auction if a player bids 500 he cannot simply back , he must wait until he is outbid. In M.U.L.E. however you can back out at any time. This right now enables any person to inflate the price to 2000 and then at the last moment run back to the start line. Nothing happens to him, but the land is now off-limits to everyone else due to a very high price.

I eagerly await your thoughts on this subject.