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ANNOUNCE NEWS #2226
Date: 1/18/2013 at 19:18
From: Jeremy
To : Everyone
Subj: Artifact Auction
We will be starting the auction sometime this weekend. It will run until next Saturday. Following in this post is a list of items for auction.
Two things of note.
First, we have seven new items we are putting into the auction. Check those out. Some of you emailed me some new ones, but I just did not have time to get those into the system this time. I will keep them on my list to add to the game.
Secondly, I have added some of our normal credit auction items to the gold auction list. Just keeping it interesting.
Gold Items
------------------------------
Chest of the Continuum
- Most items in this chest do not decay
Bone Shard
- Throw this object at the ground or to another room, afflicting everyone in
the room with random afflictions. Great party gag!
Protection Rings
- Gives the wearer a 10% damage reduction from a single damage type.
- Firescourge - Defends against fire.
- Frostbrand - Defends against frost.
- Poisonbane - Defends against poison.
- Eupnoeic - Defends against asphyxiation damage.
- Voltaic - Defends against electric damage.
- Phrenic - Defends against psychic damage.
Flask of Divine Manna
- A never-ending vial of manna that will fully satiate you when
drunk. Become nearly immune to hunger-inducing afflictions!
A Feathered Armlet
- This ability will let you use the arrowcatching defence, which gives you a
33% chance to catch any arrows fired at you. This defence has a slight mana
drain associated with it.
Vine-covered oaken bracelet
- This bracelet will attune you with the land and give you access to the
LANDSENSE ability if you don't already have it in Perception. This ability
allows you to see when other mortals enter the realms.
The bracelet will make the Landsense defence permanent, and will also remove
the mana cost.
Wrist-sheathed toolkit
- This artifact will allow you to use the TRAPS command to view any traps that
are armed in your room.
You will also be able to attempt to disarm traps that are in your room by
doing DISARM TRAP <direction>. This will have a chance to fail, and when it
fails, you will be hit by the trap as if you moved through it. If you are
successful, the trap will be disarmed and you will receive any of the
commodities used when it was created.
Veil of the Obtenebrate
- Hides you from nearly all mortal abilities that can pinpoint your
location.
Owning a Veil (not just borrowing one), allows you to cut past the Veil
defence of an opponent when locating him or her. However, this will
generally only work for one-time abilities, like 'sense'. Owning a veil
will not aid you in sensing with abilities that trace someone on an
on-going basis, like seraph trace or forest track.
Does NOT hide you from abilities that do more than simply locate you, such
as Shapeshifting tracking.
Gem of Transmutation
- Enables you to change race and statpack up to once an Imperian month
(once per RL day).
This will not work for anyone but the owner.
New Credit Items
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Torc of the Dead
- Increased in power as you kill mobs. When it reaches a full power you can
set a place where you will be automatically rezzed the next time you die.
Quicksilver Armour
- An armour that can be morphed into any type of artifact armour, with the
matching stats. You can do this as often as needed.
Quicksilver Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 1 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Mercurial Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 2 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Sukhder Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 3 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Anklet of Will
- Gives access to a FORCE ability. This will have a 4 second EQ cost.
Bracelet of Iron Stomach
- You will not suffer any negative effects from being drunk, other than the
slurred speech.
Previous Credit Items
------------------------------
Phantasmic Diadem
- Lets you choose a custom enter and exit message.
A Phantom Mask
- A mask that lets you conceal your identity, just like a Predator
Tent
- You can set up a tent almost anywhere in the world, allowing you a portable
indoor room.
Sunburst Glyph
- You can attach this glyph to any suit of armour and it will grant you an
increased critical hit rate. This effect stacks with other critical hit
artifacts and bonuses.
The glyph can be removed from the armour and placed to any other armour at
any time that you want.
A Sanctified Aegis
- This artifact will, when you are protected by a shield tattoo (or any
ability that acts like a shield tattoo), convert any aggressive attacks
targeted at you that bounce off your shield into 20 health.
Fist-shaped earring
- This earring allows you to use the Numbness ability from Kaido. When you
enter the command NUMB, all damage you take for the next 10 seconds will be
ignored. When the numbness wears off, you will instantly take 60% of the
damage you would have received during the 10 seconds of numbness.
Artifact Pet
- The pet will allow for 10 skill slots, and are the only way that any pet can
have the combination of the mount and track abilities. The pet can have
the ability to fly if you would like. If you are the winner, please contact
Jeremy to redeem your token.
Stone Figurine
- Make your own stonewalls. (requires stone comms)
Wyvern's Collar
- Gives the user the use of the vitality ability.
Master Collar of Taming
- Similar to a standard Collar of Taming, but may be removed and returned
to your inventory.
A Glass Terrarium
- This portable and useful item will, once per day, produce a number of herbs
equal to the maximum number of herbs that you can harvest in a single day.
Use HARVEST <#>|ALL <plant type> FROM <terrarium>.
Use SETUP <terrarium> AS <environment type> to change the environment type
of your terrarium.
Never have to travel to pick herbs again! Pick the herbs straight from your
inventory!
A Miniature Smelter
- This item will, once per day, allow you to CRANK <smelter> to make it
produce ingots of smithing metals.
Every day, you will be able to collect 50 sinn, 25 cuhpfehr, 50 isan,
and 25 of the valuable crystehl ingots from the smelter.
Seer's Eye
- This item will allow you to PEER <eye> <player>, allowing you to see
everything in the room of any player, anywhere in the world, as if you were
there yourself.
Raksha Band
- Known as the "ring of returning", this item allows you to mark a room and
instantly return to it.
Boots of Acrobatics
- Use the frontflip, backflip and kipup skills.
Pipe Filter
- Reduces pipe balance.
Penned by my hand on the 20th of Aequitas, in the year 8 AM.
Date: 1/18/2013 at 19:18
From: Jeremy
To : Everyone
Subj: Artifact Auction
We will be starting the auction sometime this weekend. It will run until next Saturday. Following in this post is a list of items for auction.
Two things of note.
First, we have seven new items we are putting into the auction. Check those out. Some of you emailed me some new ones, but I just did not have time to get those into the system this time. I will keep them on my list to add to the game.
Secondly, I have added some of our normal credit auction items to the gold auction list. Just keeping it interesting.
Gold Items
------------------------------
Chest of the Continuum
- Most items in this chest do not decay
Bone Shard
- Throw this object at the ground or to another room, afflicting everyone in
the room with random afflictions. Great party gag!
Protection Rings
- Gives the wearer a 10% damage reduction from a single damage type.
- Firescourge - Defends against fire.
- Frostbrand - Defends against frost.
- Poisonbane - Defends against poison.
- Eupnoeic - Defends against asphyxiation damage.
- Voltaic - Defends against electric damage.
- Phrenic - Defends against psychic damage.
Flask of Divine Manna
- A never-ending vial of manna that will fully satiate you when
drunk. Become nearly immune to hunger-inducing afflictions!
A Feathered Armlet
- This ability will let you use the arrowcatching defence, which gives you a
33% chance to catch any arrows fired at you. This defence has a slight mana
drain associated with it.
Vine-covered oaken bracelet
- This bracelet will attune you with the land and give you access to the
LANDSENSE ability if you don't already have it in Perception. This ability
allows you to see when other mortals enter the realms.
The bracelet will make the Landsense defence permanent, and will also remove
the mana cost.
Wrist-sheathed toolkit
- This artifact will allow you to use the TRAPS command to view any traps that
are armed in your room.
You will also be able to attempt to disarm traps that are in your room by
doing DISARM TRAP <direction>. This will have a chance to fail, and when it
fails, you will be hit by the trap as if you moved through it. If you are
successful, the trap will be disarmed and you will receive any of the
commodities used when it was created.
Veil of the Obtenebrate
- Hides you from nearly all mortal abilities that can pinpoint your
location.
Owning a Veil (not just borrowing one), allows you to cut past the Veil
defence of an opponent when locating him or her. However, this will
generally only work for one-time abilities, like 'sense'. Owning a veil
will not aid you in sensing with abilities that trace someone on an
on-going basis, like seraph trace or forest track.
Does NOT hide you from abilities that do more than simply locate you, such
as Shapeshifting tracking.
Gem of Transmutation
- Enables you to change race and statpack up to once an Imperian month
(once per RL day).
This will not work for anyone but the owner.
New Credit Items
------------------------------
Torc of the Dead
- Increased in power as you kill mobs. When it reaches a full power you can
set a place where you will be automatically rezzed the next time you die.
Quicksilver Armour
- An armour that can be morphed into any type of artifact armour, with the
matching stats. You can do this as often as needed.
Quicksilver Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 1 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Mercurial Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 2 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Sukhder Weapon
- A weapon that can be morphed into any level 3 artifact. You can do this as
often as needed.
Anklet of Will
- Gives access to a FORCE ability. This will have a 4 second EQ cost.
Bracelet of Iron Stomach
- You will not suffer any negative effects from being drunk, other than the
slurred speech.
Previous Credit Items
------------------------------
Phantasmic Diadem
- Lets you choose a custom enter and exit message.
A Phantom Mask
- A mask that lets you conceal your identity, just like a Predator
Tent
- You can set up a tent almost anywhere in the world, allowing you a portable
indoor room.
Sunburst Glyph
- You can attach this glyph to any suit of armour and it will grant you an
increased critical hit rate. This effect stacks with other critical hit
artifacts and bonuses.
The glyph can be removed from the armour and placed to any other armour at
any time that you want.
A Sanctified Aegis
- This artifact will, when you are protected by a shield tattoo (or any
ability that acts like a shield tattoo), convert any aggressive attacks
targeted at you that bounce off your shield into 20 health.
Fist-shaped earring
- This earring allows you to use the Numbness ability from Kaido. When you
enter the command NUMB, all damage you take for the next 10 seconds will be
ignored. When the numbness wears off, you will instantly take 60% of the
damage you would have received during the 10 seconds of numbness.
Artifact Pet
- The pet will allow for 10 skill slots, and are the only way that any pet can
have the combination of the mount and track abilities. The pet can have
the ability to fly if you would like. If you are the winner, please contact
Jeremy to redeem your token.
Stone Figurine
- Make your own stonewalls. (requires stone comms)
Wyvern's Collar
- Gives the user the use of the vitality ability.
Master Collar of Taming
- Similar to a standard Collar of Taming, but may be removed and returned
to your inventory.
A Glass Terrarium
- This portable and useful item will, once per day, produce a number of herbs
equal to the maximum number of herbs that you can harvest in a single day.
Use HARVEST <#>|ALL <plant type> FROM <terrarium>.
Use SETUP <terrarium> AS <environment type> to change the environment type
of your terrarium.
Never have to travel to pick herbs again! Pick the herbs straight from your
inventory!
A Miniature Smelter
- This item will, once per day, allow you to CRANK <smelter> to make it
produce ingots of smithing metals.
Every day, you will be able to collect 50 sinn, 25 cuhpfehr, 50 isan,
and 25 of the valuable crystehl ingots from the smelter.
Seer's Eye
- This item will allow you to PEER <eye> <player>, allowing you to see
everything in the room of any player, anywhere in the world, as if you were
there yourself.
Raksha Band
- Known as the "ring of returning", this item allows you to mark a room and
instantly return to it.
Boots of Acrobatics
- Use the frontflip, backflip and kipup skills.
Pipe Filter
- Reduces pipe balance.
Penned by my hand on the 20th of Aequitas, in the year 8 AM.
Post edited by Selthis on
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Second Price Bidding Examples
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Example 1:
- Player A bids 100 gold on an item and the 'Bid' is set to 1 gold.
- Player B bids 200 gold and the bid is placed to 101 gold with the bid
in his favor.
- 100 gold is returned to Player A in the mail.
- Player B has the highest bid and will pay 101 gold with 99 returned.
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Example 2
- Player A bids 100 gold on an item and the 'Bid' is set to 1 gold.
- Player B bids 50 gold which is returned right away and the bid is
placed to 51 gold, still infavor of Player A.
- Player A has the highest bid and will pay 51 gold with 49 returned.
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Example 3
- Player A bids 100 gold on an item and the 'Bid' is set to 1 gold.
- Player B bids 50 gold and the bid is placed to 51 gold, but Player A
still has the high bid.
- Player B really wants it and bids 80 gold and the bid is placed to
81 gold, still in favor of Player A.
- Player B really, really wants it and bids 120 gold and the bid is
placed to 101 gold, now in favor of Player B.
- 100 gold is returned to Player A in the mail.
- Player B has the highest bid and will pay 101 gold with 19 returned.
So in conclusion: You are generally better off bidding what you're willing to spend and then measuring how bad you really want the item if you are outbid. Bidding 1 gold/credit repeatedly until you beat the person's bid is probably not the best strategy and just means all they have to do is beat your bid by 1 credit/gold.
A vicious cycle.
Bid smart, bid s-mart.
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
This auction is literally insane. Certain people have gone out of control and started bidding crazy amounts. Supposedly with the intention of turning in other artifacts of buying non upgrade artifacts.
That being said, I'm going to make an appeal to reason. Auction artifacts are awesome, I can speak to that. But they are not the end all be all. Trading in other artifacts (that the auction artifacts aren't direct upgrades for) is generally a bad plan. You are throwing away money. You are potentially destroying a lot of your hard work. .
It is now day 3 of the auction. The prices are beyond what I expected to see at the end of the auction after the bidding frenzy. I'm honestly sort of flabbergasted. I've never seen an auction like this before.
I am not saying don't bid or don't go crazy on something if you relly want it. I'm saying take a minute and think. Auction regret is a terrible thing and sometimes takes a while to settle in fully. Think before you bid.
Please auction responsibly.
(Can someone please post the prices as they stand just for recordkeeping's sake?)
What we really need to do is prevent people from upbidding who have no actual intention of bidding or buying the item. A few people probably find it an entertaining sport to crank the prices higher than they reasonably should be, with no actual ability to pay the credits to purchase these items.
Proprietor: Nobody.
--------(Item)-------(Description)-------------------(Bid)---(Price)---(Time)-
torc381327: the Torc of the Dead 501cr - 4m, 20d
armour381356: a suit of quicksilver armour 1000cr - 4m, 20d
weapon381365: a Quicksilver Weapon 951cr - 4m, 20d
weapon381383: a Mercurial Weapon 1100cr - 4m, 20d
weapon278531: a Sukhder Weapon 3000cr - 4m, 20d
anklet381412: an Anklet of Will 500cr - 4m, 20d
bracelet381417: a Bracelet of Iron Stomach 491cr - 4m, 20d
diadem381432: a Phantasmic Diadem 501cr - 4m, 20d
mask381402: a Phantom Mask 1001cr - 4m, 20d
tent381449: a small tent 600cr - 4m, 20d
glyph381376: a Sunburst Glyph 851cr - 4m, 20d
aegis381405: a sanctified aegis 351cr - 4m, 20d
earring28878: a fist-shaped earring 401cr - 4m, 20d
token250302: a Flying Pet Token 2001cr - 4m, 20d
figurine309633: a stone figurine 601cr - 4m, 20d
collar379686: a wyvern collar 501cr - 4m, 20d
collar381108: a Master's Collar of Taming 501cr - 4m, 20d
terrarium381183: a glass terrarium 901cr - 4m, 20d
smelter381172: a miniature smelter 2401cr - 4m, 20d
eye381246: the Seer's Eye 4000cr - 4m, 20d
band114851: the Raksha Band 3001cr - 4m, 20d
boots281070: Acrobatic Boots 1501cr - 4m, 20d
filter381278: a pipe filter set 490cr - 4m, 20d
chest381226: Chest of the Continuum 296002gp - 4m, 20d
shard381414: a bone shard 200001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381441: a firescourge ring 150001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381469: a frostbrand ring 350001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381454: a poisonbane ring 175001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381468: a eupnoeic ring 350001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381476: a voltaic ring 250001gp - 4m, 20d
ring381508: a phrenic ring 700000gp - 4m, 20d
flask381499: manna of the gods (Flask of D 125001gp - 4m, 20d
armlet381516: a feathered armlet 350001gp - 4m, 20d
bracelet381517: a vine-covered oaken bracelet 530000gp - 4m, 20d
toolkit381523: a wrist-sheathed toolkit 330001gp - 4m, 20d
veil381531: a Veil of Obtenebrate 1500001gp - 4m, 20d
gem381528: a Gem of Transmutation 2000001gp - 4m, 20d
I had thought I could have managed to try for one item, but with these prices
hahah, nope
Price just before end of the last dayProprietor: Nobody.
Proprietor: Nobody.
--------(Item)-------(Description)-------------------(Bid)---(Price)---(Time)-
torc381327: the Torc of the Dead 1701cr - 2d
weapon381383: a Mercurial Weapon 2201cr - 1d
weapon278531: a Sukhder Weapon 4100cr - 0d
anklet381412: an Anklet of Will 801cr - 2d
figurine309633: a stone figurine 851cr - 1d
collar379686: a wyvern collar 1500cr - 2d
collar381108: a Master's Collar of Taming 100cr - 0d
terrarium381183: a glass terrarium 2101cr - 1d
shard381414: a bone shard 650001gp - 1d
ring381441: a firescourge ring 1250001gp - 1d
ring381469: a frostbrand ring 1700001gp - 1d
ring381454: a poisonbane ring 900001gp - 1d
ring381468: a eupnoeic ring 2393508gp - 1d
ring381508: a phrenic ring 2000001gp - 0d
flask381499: manna of the gods (Flask of D 1426117gp - 2d
armlet381516: a feathered armlet 1400001gp - 2d
toolkit381523: a wrist-sheathed toolkit 867000gp - 0d
veil381531: a Veil of Obtenebrate 7300000gp - 0d
gem381528: a Gem of Transmutation 3500000gp - 2d
Proprietor: Nobody.
--------(Item)-------(Description)-------------------(Bid)---(Price)---(Time)-
torc381327: the Torc of the Dead 1701cr - 1d
weapon381383: a Mercurial Weapon 2201cr - 0d
anklet381412: an Anklet of Will 801cr - 1d
figurine309633: a stone figurine 851cr - 0d
collar379686: a wyvern collar 1500cr - 1d
terrarium381183: a glass terrarium 3000cr - 2d
shard381414: a bone shard 650001gp - 0d
ring381441: a firescourge ring 1250001gp - 0d
ring381469: a frostbrand ring 1700001gp - 0d
ring381454: a poisonbane ring 900001gp - 0d
ring381468: a eupnoeic ring 2393508gp - 0d
flask381499: manna of the gods (Flask of D 1426117gp - 1d
armlet381516: a feathered armlet 1400001gp - 1d
gem381528: a Gem of Transmutation 4400000gp - 2d
Proprietor: Nobody.
--------(Item)-------(Description)-------------------(Bid)---(Price)---(Time)-
torc381327: the Torc of the Dead 1701cr - 0d
anklet381412: an Anklet of Will 801cr - 0d
collar379686: a wyvern collar 1500cr - 0d
terrarium381183: a glass terrarium 3000cr - 1d
flask381499: manna of the gods (Flask of D 1426117gp - 0d
armlet381516: a feathered armlet 1400001gp - 0d
gem381528: a Gem of Transmutation 4400000gp - 1d
Gem - 4.6m gold