"its no bug! trying to sell something without success lowers the price!"
This is a true statement I think. There is a point to this when nobody is buying but there is no point if the seller is 'buying' his own plot.
1) One possibility to fix this 'bug' would be to disable the seller from auction so he cannot buy something that is his already. This way there would also be a true risk of actually selling the land to another player, even when this 'loss' might be compensated by the upcoming auctions in plot quality & price (-60 each consecutive auction if no other buyers).
2) In real world, however, the seller cannot really be excluded from the auction I think BUT there is a penalty if you buy your own piece as you have to pay some fee to the person/company who arranges the auction. This might be another possibility so if you buy your own plot then you suffer a say 5 to 30 percent auction charge, or a fixed fee of 50 to 1000. Percentage/fee for each auction to be set by the program (calculated or random or both). The selling price would be the same for all players but if the seller buys the plot himself then he keeps the plot and reveives a reduced sum of money, not the total selling price.
No, I was not on the last place, and, as I remember, neither was the player who won the auction.
The thing is that the player that was bidding second was clearly behind me (maybe some 50$) but then he just jumped past me in the dying seconds of the auction even though I was still raising the bid.
He wrote SPACEBR in the chat, does that have something to do with what happened? Can you make a 'extra high' bid just by pressing spacebar during the bidding...?
In one recent game I was bying a plot , I was leading the bidding and had enough money to raise the price until the time runs out...then all of the sudden one player made the winning bid even though I was raising the bid as fast as I could (had the up arrow down all the time).
What happened? Can I do the same myself or is this some bug/cheat
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