Skylance's note about my bids are true. I've stockpiled 90ish items in the past week or so. What is not mentioned is that his alliance is #1 with all the highest ranked active fleeters. They won most of the auctions and some of their members bashed anyone that bid against them into oblivion. They also declared war on most other alliances so they could do this around bashing rules. Result = players quit and uni shrinks.
So I am bidding stupidly and blocking them from the exact action that motivated this suggestion and an older one making bids anonymous. We're at war, so why not? I didn't plan to mention specifics, but thanks Skylance for helping me to illustrate why the auction house is so badly broken and abused.
well, I'm not sure who started to send blind IPMs when a guy only went for fleet/cargo/res instead of bashing.
and kicking all the less active players so that someone can troll while others are hiding in vm.
so let's not go there and try to cry over the war.
one thing that I do not like bidding going annoymiously is due to friendly bidding though... someone **cough cough Shadyj09 does that regardless but it'd minimize it for sure.
it's a war game and the auction is open market and daily import/export is private one that you always wins.
and If I really wanted, I could bid like 10kk res on bronze boosters and still get profit off from it due to high lv mines.
There are many ways to turn the table other than illegal bots or putting huge sums of money into it.
But really, restricting Items for higher ranked player will just mean no one can win the auction in old uni's.
If you know when it ends, you can just click it once and get it at the last min.
There's a guy in Jap that wins 90% of auction items when he's on so I know it is possible;
to me, the the only questions I ask myself is 'Is this item worth my 5mins of every hour?"