The /auctionhouse (/ah) is where players SELL their items for a given price. It isn’t even an auction.

The dictionary definition of an AUCTION is ‘a public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.’

So, my suggestion is to allow players to actually auction their goods!

For example…

I want to sell a Pig Spawner on /ah, but I want to get the highest price I can. No problem, I can auction the good to the highest bidder!

The command could go along the lines of /ah sell bid100000 sell150000

This would mean the minimum bid someone could enter is $100,000 Skybucks. If they want to buy the spawner upfront, they can for $150,000 Skybucks, by right clicking or something like that.

Bids could go up by a minimum of $500 per bid, to prevent pointless bids 1 or 2 dollars more than previously.

Bids could expire at the same speed as regular sales, and whoever bids the highest at the end would get the item!

I think this would be a great addition to Economy, and help more goods and items being sold and traded on /ah.

 

Whats to stop island farmers intentionally raising the bid cost to drive an item out of a poorer players reach? Or to rig auctions by paying from multiple accounts. The ah is great as it is now, a place where players can see a range of different items being sold at a price player wish to sell for

 

I’m sure offline could tell you all about that.

This existed as a plug-in on the old eco server and it was great, and this suggestion was already suggested before, with overwhelming support, so I’m not so sure as to why people no-support it; https://skyblock.net/threads/auction.140125/#post-1575785

 

Better staffing and moderating? Better anti-cheat plugin? Just to name a few

Almost every item on /ah doesn’t get sold and sits there for days on end and expires. What’s so great about that I don’t know.

Using your logic what’s stopping ‘island farmers’ from inflating assets when selling items on /ah. It’s the same thing so you are defeating your own point

 

This was a feature on the old economy server and I kinda liked it.

 

Support for a real auction system, but either do away entirely with the auction house system, or make this new auction system completely separate. Perhaps a more up-to-date version of the old chat auction plugin, with a couple of extra features like ignoring the chat spam, and having the item be hoverable in chat like the shop system does, so that players are able to see lore and enchants.