Players don't see correct current bids in land auction

[kipley]

So I've had variations of this conversation in dozens of games now:

Opponent:  "Hey, why'd you win that land auction?  My bid was higher than yours!"
Me:  "It's a bug, actually.  Because of network lag, you won't necessarily see the current bids of your opponents in the land auction in real time.  Instead, you'll see what they were bidding a few milliseconds before.  This makes their bids appear to be lower than yours, when in actuality they're bidding higher than you."
Opponent:  "Really?  Well that sucks!"
Me:  "Yes, yes it does.  Hopefully they'll fix this bug someday."

I know the developers are already aware of this bug, but I'm bringing it up again because:

- It affects the games quite often.  In around half of my games, somebody gets screwed out of a land auction because they thought their bidding was higher than their opponents.

- This bug still exists in version 1.2.4.

Thanks for any work you can do towards fixing this!   

[Peter]

Hello kipley,
Thanks for the report.

We know of this bug and we've actually known it since before releasing Planet Mule. We just haven't got around to fixing it. But don't worry, we won't forgot about it, and it will eventually be fixed. It's mainly a cosmetic thing and it can't crash/freeze or affect the game in any other bad way.